Books & Arts opener – 12 February 2015
The Spectator
Thursday
Peter Oborne: Ed Miliband is the most accomplished opposition leader since the war
[audioplayer src=”http://traffic.libsyn.com/spectator/TheViewFrom22_12_Feb_2015_v4.mp3″ title=”Peter Oborne and Dan Hodges discuss Ed Miliband” startat=1343] In this week’s Spectator podcast, we put a Labour and a Tory supporter next to each other to debate the virtues of Ed Miliband. The difference being that Peter Oborne is a passionate defender of the leader, and Dan Hodges his most vocal critic.
The Spectator at war: Military timetables | 12 February 2015
From ‘The New “Day” and Merchant Shipping’, The Spectator, 13 February 1915: THE Germans have such a mania for fixing a day for achieving some important purpose that we should feel guilty of a certain want of responsiveness if we grudged them anything of the pleasure they are deriving from contemplating the mystical date of February
From the archives | 12 February 2015
From ‘Prohibition in Scotland during the War’, The Spectator, 13 February 1915: At present the economic waste caused by drunkenness in Scotland is enormous. We are not going to attempt to calculate how many hours in the working year are lost through the inefficiency caused by alcohol, but unquestionably in the aggregate the total is
Wednesday
The Spectator at war: Needling pain
From ‘Compulsory Inoculation’, The Spectator, 13 February 1915: IT is a little difficult to keep one’s patience with the Government’s attitude towards compulsory inoculation. It is a capital example of “Letting ‘I dare not’ wait up ‘I would,’ like the poor cat i’ the adage.” “The cat would eat fish, and would not wet her feet.”
Tuesday
The Spectator at war: Playing the man
From The Spectator, 13 February 1915:
Monday
The Spectator at war: A dreadful froth of dead
From ‘News of the Week’, The Spectator, 13 February 1915: FROM the eastern theatre of war there have been received daring the week details of the gigantic dimensions of Field-Marshal von Hindenburg’s grand attack upon the Russian centre—i.e., upon the force on the Bzura which bars the German advance on Warsaw. On a very narrow
Sunday
Removing Tony Abbott as Australian Prime Minister is pointless and reckless
In the latest issue of Spectator Australia, the leading article lambasts the Australian Liberal Party for trying to remove Prime Minister Tony Abbott: The determination by many in the media, even among conservatives, to hasten the demise of Tony Abbott’s prime ministership is as pointless as it is reckless. Pointless not because they will or they won’t succeed,
Thursday
Nhs 6
‘Well, if you won’t make lifestyle changes, could you hurry up and die?’
Rubens
‘The thighs follow you around the room.’
Tunnel 11
E Cig
‘We’re celebrating our first million in sales with electronic cigars and electronic champagne.’
Rockstar
‘You don’t look old enough to be a rock star.’
Wolf Hall 2
‘It’s like Clarence House — a bit dull and far too expensive.’
Snowman 2
‘With a severe weather warning in place for temperatures as high as plus one…’
Greens
‘Oh no! It’s a greens surge.’
