Dream 2
‘A guy can dream, Frank. A guy can dream...’
The Spectator
Thursday
Sermon
‘Yes, but where’s the money coming from for all this?’
Oil
Tunnel 10
Trendy
‘I’m so relaxed I’ve forgotten why I’m here.’
Trains 4
‘Of course trains are expensive — they’re incredibly rare.’
Martini
‘I’ll have a dry martini.’
Trickledown
‘What’s this about my wealth trickling down to poor people?’
Weasel 2
‘It’s just me and Badger. The weasel’s gone pop.’
Alright
‘Is everything all right, Sir?’
Arguing
‘Looks as though they’ve been arguing again.’
Sodoff
‘Do make yourself at home.’
Lamilly And Barbie
‘I just want you to know I think you’re really brave.’
Letters: The silencing of Meirion Thomas; finding the Cross of St George in Tuscany; and healthy scepticism about NHS privatisation
This turbulent surgeon Sir: I have taken Meirion Thomas to task before in your letters pages, saying that since one third of NHS professional staff are immigrants, it would seem churlish to deny health visitors access to the very doctors we have poached from them. Meirion Thomas is not a whistle-blower (‘Bitter medicine’, 3 January) —
Portrait of the week | 8 January 2015
Home The electorate was bombarded with contrary claims by parties beginning campaigns for the election in May. David Cameron, the Prime Minister, said that only electing the Conservative party could ‘save Britain’s economic recovery’. His party issued a dossier with figures compiled by Treasury civil servants, which sought to show that Labour’s spending plans did
Revealed: five British royals who definitely slept with underage girls
Teen queens The Duke of York denied allegations in court papers that he had had sexual relations with a girl in Florida aged 17, below the age of consent there. Some of his ancestors who might now be in trouble: — King John, who married Isabella of Angoulême in 1200 when she was 12. —
The attack on Charlie Hebdo is an attack on freedom
The French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo lambasts, attacks and lampoons absolutely everybody. Its targets include all religions, all identity groups, minorities and majorities. In recent years it has been most prominent for its refusal to apply different treatment to Islam. It knew that carrying on with satire, in the name of free expression, carried a
The Spectator at war: The German mentality
From News of the Week, The Spectator, 9 January 1915: The Report of the French Commission appointed to investigate the acts committed in violation of international law by Germany appears in the Journal Officiel of Friday. The Commission declares that “the terrible sufferings witnessed surpass in horror all that the imagination can conceive.” Not only
