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Exit Strategy
‘What’s our exit strategy?
Tower
Twerky
‘I thought we’d have a twerky this year.’
Charity 4
Jumper 2
‘If a Christmas jumper’s got your name on it, there’s nothing you can do.’
City Snowman
Troll
Football 2
‘How did the Christmas Day football match come to be played in Qatar?’
Smell 2
‘Eurgh — you smell like a chimney.’
100 years of Pyrex, processed cheese and nudes in movies
Marking a century Some things which celebrate their 100th birthday in 2015: 3-D films The first was shown at the Astor Theater in New York on 10 June, featuring the Niagara Falls. Nude scenes in films Audrey Munson played an artist’s model in Inspiration, a film by George Foster Platt released by the Mutual Film
Spectator letters: RT replies, Bristol bristles, and Ross Clark doesn’t (yet) eat his hat
Moscow writing Sir: After months of lamentations from western politicians and officials about losing the ‘information war’ to Russia, a former executive editor of Radio Free Europe tries to paint everything Russia Today does in terms of a ‘propaganda’ campaign (‘Moscow calling’, 6 December). If RT is not inherently bad, it is a wolf in
Portrait of the year | 11 December 2014
January Floods covered 28,000 acres of the Somerset Levels. Ukip suspended an Oxfordshire councillor for saying floods were God’s punishment for legalising same-sex marriage. An Afghan was granted asylum because he had become an atheist. Fallujah fell to the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (Isis). Half a million fled fighting in South Sudan. Cannabis
Why do the Liberal Democrats see the over-65s as a “time bomb”?
We are living longer, healthier and more prosperous lives than ever — it’s one of the greatest advances of our time, and yet our politicians prefer to see it as a disaster. ‘We are facing a time bomb,’ says the Liberal Democrat Norman Lamb, a health minister. He presents the numbers as if we are supposed
Books and arts – 11 December 2014
The Spectator at war: Fighting for peace
From President Wilson’s Message, The Spectator, 12 December 1915: We quite agree that it is the greatness and glory of America to be the true friend of all nations, to “threaten none, covet the possession of none, and desire the overthrow of none.” No ideal could be higher or better worth preserving. We also are
