Photos
‘He used to feed us, now he just takes photos of us.’
The Spectator
Thursday
Sandwich
‘I don’t make sandwiches so much as curate them.’
Chariot
‘It gets me from alpha to beta.’
Botox 2
Drink 6
‘I’m drinking for two.’
Parrots
‘You try talking to him.’
Tweet 7
‘What do you mean you’re going to tweet it?’
Rant
‘This is a repeat of yesterday’s rant about BBC bias, and it is also available online.’
Watershed
‘I’m going on after the watershed.’
Lol 2
Networking
‘Look, dear, he’s networking.’
Date 3
The worst date ever
Everything
‘She’s got everything we never had: a two-hour commute, IVF treatment, divorce pending and an alcohol problem.’
Spectator letters: Richard Ingrams defends Joan Littlewood, and the truth about Napoleon’s poisonous wallpaper
The state of Italy… Sir: Ambassador Terracciano’s letter (Letters, 1 November) about Nicholas Farrell’s article (‘The dying man of Europe’, 25 October) seems to me to be ill-researched and not thought through. Nicholas Farrell is spot on. The Ambassador is not. In another forum the Ambassador, on being asked what Italian nationals contribute to Britain, claimed
Fort Lauderdale’s law against feeding the homeless still isn’t America’s dumbest
States of criminality A 90-year-old Florida man feeding the homeless was arrested under a Fort Lauderdale law which makes it illegal to share food with members of the public. Other laws from the ‘Land of the Free’: — In Indiana you can be arrested for statutory rape if you are caught driving a car with
Portrait of the week | 13 November 2014
Home The government, expecting a backbench rebellion over the European Arrest Warrant, did not present it for a separate vote in the Commons, which enraged backbenchers all the more. Yvette Cooper, the shadow home secretary, tabled a procedural motion, forcing David Cameron, the Prime Minister, to hurry from the Lord Mayor’s banquet in white tie
Thank heavens for Justin Welby!
For decades, interventions of the Archbishop of Canterbury in national debate were like a sporadic bombardment of small pebbles against the door of Downing Street. Justin Welby has changed all that. This week, payday loan companies are facing reform (or in some cases oblivion) as new caps on interest payments come into effect. That the
Books and arts – 13 November 2014
John Major: Nearly 50% chance of Britain leaving the EU
This is the text of a speech delivered by Sir John Major in Berlin. Thank you for your kind invitation. I feel privileged to be here to talk about the future relationship of the UK and her European partners. Often, on these occasions, speakers deliver their messages delphically; almost in code. But this evening I
