‘Keep your temper’, from The Spectator, 8 August 1914: ‘When a nation goes to war the policy of the Government nearly always fails to carry with it the convictions of a minority. It is, of course, very rare for a Government who make war to find themselves without the support of the majority – for,
‘Well, according to Google Images it’s not a catapult.’
‘Move yourself! The grass needs cutting.’
‘OK — maybe this’ll help. Right, a horse goes into a bar and the barman says...’
‘If I want to go to bloody assertiveness classes, I’ll go, OK?!’
‘He loved Starbucks.’
‘We’re more of a whinge tank, really…’
‘Rain doesn’t bother me — it’s like sanctions off Vladimir Putin’s back.’
‘This is the first world war schedule to end all first world war schedules.’
‘Strewth, Skippy — the Poms have gone fracking crazy.’
Poor treatment Sir: Jane Kelly’s article (‘No tea or sympathy’, 2 August) on the lack of empathy and emotional support shown to patients is humbling. It is also worth noting that showing patients a lack of compassion has wider consequences. We know for instance that around 13,000 cancer patients feel like dropping out of treatment
Home The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge joined 50 heads of state at the St Symphorien cemetery near Mons to commemorate the invasion of Belgium in 1914. The Prince of Wales attended a service at Glasgow cathedral; the Duchess of Cornwall attended a service at Westminster Abbey where a lighted flame was put out at
George Osborne proposed an attractive idea this week: that spending on state benefits should be diverted into new infrastructure in the North. His conceit was that while welfare spending produces no economic return, spending public money on new high-speed railways and the like will inevitably boost the economy. We can’t fault the former assertion: that
