From News of the Week, The Spectator, 5 December 1914: Friday’s Times contains extracts from an interview with Lord Kitchener, published in the Saturday Evening Post— a weekly newspaper with a large circulation in all parts of the United States. Nothing could be better than the passage in which Lord Kitchener dealt with the action of the
‘Nice camouflage pants.’
‘And finally, gentlemen, as a nod towards the environmentalists among you, he’s been entirely locally sourced.’
‘I think he may have been radicalised — look, he’s on Facebook.’
‘I don’t have as much time to beg as I’d like, now I’m working.’
'You're one of thoseeveryday sexists.'
‘Was it Mrs White, in the dining room, with the chicken chasseur?’
‘It must be so lonely, dining alone.’
‘Time to put my Jeffrey Campbell shoes back into hibernation.’
‘Oh my God, Janice, what did I tell you about using too much body scrub!’
Times past Sir: ‘Imagine,’ says Hugo Rifkind in his excellent piece on the power of Google (29 November), ‘that there was one newspaper that got all the scoops. Literally all of them.’ We don’t have to imagine: such a newspaper existed, a couple of centuries ago, and Hugo works for its descendent. The Times of the
A fatal shot The sad death of Australian batsman Philip Hughes was a reminder that a cricket ball can kill. A blow on the cricket field may even have cost us an heir to the throne. — One of the earliest suspected victims was Frederick, Prince of Wales, the son of George II, who is
When George Osborne first became Chancellor, he asked to be judged on his ability to reduce the deficit. He does not make that request any more. This year’s deficit is almost three times higher than the £37 billion he originally planned, but he understandably glossed over this point when delivering his Autumn Statement. He has
