Pub 4
The Spectator
Thursday
Trapped
‘It’s no good captain, we’re trapped!’
Dog 8
Letters | 10 September 2015
Biblical suggestions Sir: I wish to offer a couple of comments on Matthew Parris’s observation that although his ‘Christian atheism’ provides him with a moral framework, he feels the urge to help people in need, yet feels let down because Jesus offers no guidance about who to help and to what degree (‘Christianity is silent
Barometer | 10 September 2015
Old bags The government announced details of a compulsory 5p charge for single-use plastic bags in shops. Plastic bags have only been around since 1960, when they were first produced by the Swedish firm Akerlund and Rausing, later to give the world the Tetrapak. The first store to use them was Strom, a shoe-shop chain
Portrait of the week | 10 September 2015
Home David Cameron, the Prime Minister, told Parliament that he had authorised the killing, on 21 August, by means of an RAF drone, of a British citizen near Raqqa in Syria, Cardiff-born Reyaad Khan, 21, an adherent of the Islamic State. Ruhul Amin, from Aberdeen, also an Islamic State activist, whose killing had not been
The fog of law
Not even Jeremy Corbyn lamented the death of Reyaad Khan, who was killed by an RAF drone in Syria after joining the Islamic State. He was a straight-A student from Cardiff who had the freedom to do anything with his life, but chose to turn his back on Britain and join a band of Islamofascists.
Books and arts opener – 10 September 2015
A Russian revolution
From ‘The situation in Russia’, The Spectator, 11 September 1915: A new Russia has been arising within the old while the war has been going on. We have heard little of it, but we believe that the changes are deep and wide. A people cannot fight for liberty and justice without discovering that those ideas daily react upon
Wednesday
A British ‘kill list’ does exist. We used it in Afghanistan
The following article is by an ex-serviceman who served in Afghanistan. They’re making a list, they’re checking it twice – and Number 10 will know whether you’ve been naughty or nice. And if you’ve been very naughty, you’d better watch out for a metallic glint in the sky. Britain doesn’t have anything called a ‘kill list’,
Our longest-reigning monarch has presided over a second Elizabethan age
That the Queen has lived to become our longest-reigning monarch is in itself a sign of the golden age of prosperity which has been the second Elizabethan age. Over the 63 years of her reign, life expectancy for women has increased by a dozen years, to 83. The Queen may be remarkable for her age,
The Queen will do her duty. It is the duty of her peoples to match her example
This leader was originally published in The Spectator on 5 June 1953, following the coronation of Elizabeth II on 2 June. The splendour of the Coronation of Elizabeth II is over. It was a bright symbol, and its light will not fade quickly. Yet if the Queen lives as long as her loyal subjects have hoped, prayed,
Thursday
Gay
‘I’m gay, and according to my right-wing Christian fundamentalist parents I shouldn’t have got here.’
Cashpoint 3
‘There must be a glitch — it gave me some money.’
Selfie 9
‘You’ll ruin your eyesight if you keep playing with your selfie.’
Parents Evening 2
‘You’ll not be going to parents’ evening, I presume.’
Dinos
‘I like the fact they now come in larger sizes.’
Marriage 4
Lesson
‘Thanks for the lesson, Mum, but here’s one I ordered online earlier.’