Lol
‘What’s happened to us? We never says LOL any more.’
The Spectator
Thursday
Jam 2
‘Sorry I’m late. I was stuck in a jam.’
Theatre
‘They spoke so loudly I could barely hear my phone ring.’
Tennis 2
‘I’ll see you on court.’
Drone 6
‘A true sportsman doesn’t fish using a bloody drone, sir.’
Slippers
Fan
‘Just leave, please. We don’t like your sort round here.’
Countryside 2
Bishops
School 7
‘We’re a very inclusive school — we even have an award for stupidest pupil.’
Games
Pope
‘That’s Pope Innocent X — he was framed.’
Internet 2
Spectator letters: Nepotism, aid and Chatsworth
Nepotism rules Sir: Julie Burchill’s piece ‘Born to be famous’ (26 July) was very strong and as, like her, I’m an ex-Labour supporter turned conservative, it echoed my opinions. The performing arts in particular were a great outlet for the untapped talents of what we used to call the working classes. Between the mid-1950s and about
Hold on to your umbrella, Mr Putin: what the Russians lose without British trade
Off the shelf How do we boycott Putin? Some things we traded with Russia, by value, between March and May 2014: Export Mineral fuels £23m Nuclear reactors, boilers and machinery £164m Aircraft, spacecraft and parts thereof £46.6m Art, antiques etc £7.7m Fish, crustaceans and molluscs £3.25m Umbrellas, walking sticks and riding crops £170,925 Explosives and
Portrait of the week | 31 July 2014
Home Britain is to halve to three months the time that EU migrants without realistic job prospects can claim benefits, David Cameron, the Prime Minister, said in an article for the Daily Telegraph. Workers for the Passport Office who belong to the Public and Commercial Services Union went on strike ostensibly to ‘end staffing shortages
Stricter benefits limits shouldn’t stop with immigrants
With Ukip snapping at the Conservatives’ heels, it is not difficult to see why David Cameron has hit upon the idea of limiting the entitlement of EU migrants to working-age benefits in the UK, so that they can claim only for three months, not six, as before. But it is a little harder to work
Books and arts – 31 July 2014
Podcast: The lure of the crowd, anti-Semitism and Cameron’s uncertain future
Hell, as one of Jean-Paul Sartre’s characters said, is other people. Unless, that is, you happen to be British and born after about 1980, in which case hell is the opposite: being alone for more than about five minutes. In this week’s View from 22 podcast, Ross Clark looks at the rise of crowd culture.
