Hell 2
‘Frankly, the last 666 years have been hell.’
The Spectator
Thursday
Paving
Bottles 2
Helium
‘To make this interview more entertaining I would like you to take a breath of helium before answering the questions.’
Sturdy
‘That one looks nice and sturdy.’
Chains
‘Man is born free, but everywhere he is in chains.’
Uni
Jamie
Jamie Oliver Twist
Leaving
‘Of course I’m not leaving you — these are your bags I’m packing.’
Playzone
‘We try to engage young minds by providing things toddlers genuinely want to play with.’
Bucket 2
'It's not the most exciting bucket list, darling.'
Clearance
Downton
‘I’ll get the butler to watch Downton Abbey for us.’
Crisis
Idiot
‘I think you’re being briefed against.’
Spectator letters: The best ‘never’ ever is in the Declaration of Arbroath Plus: BST for England, the problem for social workers, and C.P. Snow was not cold
Never say never Sir: Dot Wordsworth (Mind your language, 20 September) quotes various telling usages of ‘never’ for rhetorical or theatrical effect. But she missed one of the earliest and spine-chilling best: the Declaration of Arbroath of 1320. Quite apart from including the first-known written statement of the old Scottish principle that kingship is essentially
How does your cannabis grow?
Pot plants A 65-year-old Devon woman rang a BBC gardening show to enquire about a mystery plant only to be told it was a cannabis plant. Some other places cannabis plants have been found: — In 2012/13 British Transport Police found 500 plants growing across the rail network, including one at Hounslow station. — Under lights in the boiler room
Portrait of the week: Cameron visits UN HQ, Scotland checks its bruises, and a Swede sells his submarine
Home David Cameron, the Prime Minister, visited New York for talks at the United Nations; he said Britain supported the American air strikes on the Islamic State. ‘These people want to kill us,’ Mr Cameron said on NBC news. Mr Cameron met President Hassan Rouhani of Iran in New York, the first such meeting since the Iranian
The good fight
It is a mark of the uncertainty of our policy in the Middle East that just over a year ago Parliament was recalled to debate whether to launch military strikes in aid of rebels in Syria. This year, it has been recalled to discuss whether the RAF should join the strikes against the rebels in
