Cupboard
‘Thank God, you’re just my wife’s lover. I thought you were the Inland Revenue!’
The Spectator
Thursday
Shelfies
Shelfies
Picasso 2
Cv
‘An impressive CV and confident interview — all rather let down by your inability to adjust your chair.’
Step
‘We had to use the naughty step — she maxed out her credit card again.’
Glasses
‘Now, where did I put my glasses?’
Poverty 2
‘Remind me again how poor we want them to be…’
Intern
‘We have recently changed our intern selection process. Could you now please place the baby rabbit you’re holding on to your heads.’
Bins 2
Tshirts
‘Does sir dress to the left or to the right?’
Pheasants
‘I’ll say this for heather, it’s very moorish.’
Cow 2
Globe
‘Modern audiences don’t just sit and watch — we interact and post live comments.’
Tv 6
‘Not another old episode of Jihad’s Army?!’
Tour
‘What an amazing spectacle! Cyclists not on the pavement!’
Spectator letters: A surgeon writes on assisted dying, and an estate agent answers Harry Mount
Real help for those in pain Sir: The fickleness of existence is exemplified by the fact that being Tony Blair’s ex-flatmate puts you in the position of further eroding the moral fabric of the nation without ever having had stood for office. An advert for Charlie Falconer’s Assisted Dying Bill is rather cynically placed opposite
So are public-sector workers really underpaid?
Public benefit Public sector unions held a strike over pay. How well are public-sector workers paid compared with their counterparts in the private sector? — Comparing jobs like for like, public sector workers earn between 2.2% and 3.1% more than private sector workers in April last year. — In the lowest-earning 5% of workers, public
In apologising for having Nigel Lawson on to discuss climate change, the BBC has breached its charter
Listen to ‘Is climate change a factor in the recent extreme weather?’ on Audioboo It is only a matter of time before Nigel Lawson — if he is allowed on the BBC at all — has to have his words spoken by an actor in the manner of Gerry Adams at the height of the IRA’s bombing
Portrait of the week | 10 July 2014
Home Theresa May, the Home Secretary, ordered a review, taking perhaps ten weeks, by Peter Wanless, the head of the National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children, of how her department, the police and prosecutors handled historical child sex-abuse allegations. There would also be a large-scale inquiry by the retired judge Lady Butler-Sloss. These
Books and arts – 10 July 2014
