Agent
‘Too much cloak, not enough dagger.’
The Spectator
Thursday
Clean
‘It’s time I came clean, Red Riding Hood.I’m not really your grandmother.’
Camouflage
Watch
Poverty
‘Great news! None of us are poor.’
Winterson
‘Miliband always looks like a rabbit who’s just realised he’s in Jeanette Winterson’s garden.’
Flesh
Narcissism
Reward
‘The reward used to be food. Now it’s Facebook access for ten minutes.’
Dogma
‘How much is that dogma in the window?’
Divorce 6
‘How long before the prince divorces the princess?’
Meal
A fun-sized meal for youngsters
Alice 6
Sunni
Junk
‘Apparently it’s a standard investment portfolio for someone like me with little City experience.’
Passport 2
Barbie
Spectator letters: VAT and sugar, Boris Johnson and cricket, whisky and bagpipes
Sugar added tax Sir: Julia Pickles (Letters, 14 June) suggests a sugar tax to combat the obesity epidemic and discourage food manufacturers from adding sugar to everything from bread to baked beans. A more realistic alternative might be to simply adjust the VAT rules: currently, VAT is levied on essentials such as loo paper, toothpaste