Mad Men
‘They seemed to drink all the time in those days.’
The Spectator
Thursday
Mosquito 2
‘The swamp, the swamp, always we go to the swamp. Why can’t we head north this year?’
Line
Porn 4
‘When I was your age we had to make our own porn.’
Noah
‘You laughing hyenas at the back, why don’t you just come out here to the front and then we can all share the joke?’
Violin
‘You were right – it’s not the cat.’
Judging
‘It’s not working, Raymond — I feel like you’re judging me.’
Mps 2
‘Let’s promise everyone a pay rise twice the rate of inflation!’
Yo Yo
Benefits 5
‘According to our records, you only have two full-time jobs.’
Drunk 4
‘For God’s sake, let me get drunk first!’
Spin
‘Or this is the election model — it features both a spin cycle and a counter-spin cycle.’
Maths
‘Oh no — he’s being difficult again.’
Obesity 5
‘When did you last see your feet?’
Letters | 9 April 2015
In defence of Catholicism Sir: Michael Gove gives an excellent defence of Christianity (4 April), but his embarrassment about the Roman Catholic part of the story is unnecessary. He writes of his discomfort as, declaring oneself to be a Christian, ‘You stand in the tradition of the Inquisition, the Counter-Reformation, the Jesuits who made South
Barometer | 9 April 2015
The Scottish way of death Nicola Sturgeon said the SNP would block a rise in the state pension age on the grounds that it would be unfair to Scots, who don’t live as long as the English. — The idea that the Scots die early was fuelled by a study by the Glasgow Centre for
Swing time
The age of two-party politics is over: we know that because everyone keeps saying so. We are entering an era of coalitions, apparently, where compromise is king and a wider variety of views will be represented in parliament. These barely comprehensible seven-way television debates are the future, we are assured, and decisive general election results
Portrait of the week | 9 April 2015
Home Tony Blair, the former prime minister, opposed a referendum on membership of the EU. In a speech at Sedgefield he said that, following the Scottish referendum, David Cameron, the Prime Minister, knew ‘the perilous fragility of public support for the sensible choice’. Opinion polls following a television debate by seven party leaders, which drew
Books and arts – 9 April 2015
Before Dad’s Army
From ‘Our Home Guards’, The Spectator, 10 April 1915: There is nothing of the national picnic; or of playing at soldiers about the Home Guards. Those who enter the corps mean business, and not a good time in the open air under a series of military aliases. Some of the special features of the movement are
