Picnic 2
‘We must have got the date wrong. This isn’t the teddy bears’ picnic.’
The Spectator
Thursday
Knee Boot
Reasons
Share
‘We’ll have the tear’n’share gazelle.’
Developing
‘He’s just not developing.’
Fortune
‘That’s the trouble with these muscle cars… cost a fortune to run.’
Domestic
‘I’m sorry to hear about your domestic problems, Hartley, but I can’t allow you to take it home.’
Ordinary
Lactose
‘Teddy’s lactose-intolerant. Do you have any imaginary soya milk?’
Immigration 2
‘Sorry, do you mind if we change the subject? I’m uncomfortable not talking about immigration.’
Bit
‘That’s Mummy and Daddy and Daddy’s bit on the side.’
Bandaid
‘Dear God, is there ever any good news?’
Allen Jones
‘Of course, the Victorians would have covered up the legs.’
Spectator letters: Why we should subsidise weddings
Let’s subsidise weddings Sir: Fraser Nelson (‘Marrying money’, 15 November) points out that marriages tend to last longer than cohabitations and that this is a good thing. But there is only one obvious difference between being married and merely cohabitating. If you are married you’ve been through a marriage ceremony and if you’re not you haven’t.
Actually, Bob, they do know it’s Christmas (we checked)
Yeah, Bob, they know The answer to the rhetorical question posed by the Band Aid single, ‘Do they know it’s Christmas?’, is broadly yes. Christmas Day is a public holiday everywhere in Africa except Mauritania, Western Sahara, Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Libya and Somalia, although countries have widely differing customs associated with the event. — In
Spare us a Bob?
Anyone listening to the BBC this week could be forgiven for thinking that the musician Bob Geldof had just emerged from Africa, like a latter-day Dr Livingstone, the first westerner with news of a deadly new virus. He and his makeshift band of celebrities have adopted Ebola, their song blazing from the radio while Geldof
Portrait of the week | 20 November 2014
Home David Cameron, the Prime Minister, said: ‘Red warning lights are once again flashing on the dashboard of the global economy.’ He then offered £650 million to a ‘green climate fund’. In a speech in Singapore, Mark Carney, the Governor of the Bank of England, said that fines for banks over rigging foreign exchange rates showed
Books and arts – 20 November 2014
The Spectator at war: The happiest young man in the world
From The Spectator, 21 November 1914: We are glad to learn that the laudable persistence of the Prince of Wales has been rewarded, and that he has been allowed to go to the front, where he is now an A.D.C. to Sir John French. We can well believe the statement that the Prince is at
From the archives | 20 November 2014
From ‘News of the Week’, The Spectator, 21 November 1914: We are glad to learn that the laudable persistence of the Prince of Wales has been rewarded, and that he has been allowed to go to the front, where he is now an A.D.C. to Sir John French. We can well believe the statement that
