The Spectator
Thursday
Couch 2
‘It’s happened. The couch has finally taken over John!’
Boxes
‘He started with just one box six months ago...’
Tracks
‘Curses! It looks as if the replacement bus isn’t going to show up either.’
Nhs 4
‘It’s one of his five a day.’
Coop 2
‘You do the meth.’
Barlow
‘Bad news – there’s a 75 per cent tax on national treasure.’
Paranoia
Halal
‘It must be halal meat — it’s disagreeing with me.’
Letters: The National Trust and young people reply
Trust renewables Sir: Your editorial (‘Green and unpleasant’, 3 May) accused the National Trust of jumping ‘aboard the climate change bandwagon’ and performing a ‘double backflip’ on wind energy and shale gas. Not true. We have long been worried about the impact that climate change is having on our properties. Sixty per cent of
Why does Britain’s fight for religious freedom stop at Dover?
‘We don’t do God,’ was Alastair Campbell’s put-down when his charge, Tony Blair, was tempted to raise the issue of his faith. Unfortunately, it seems to have become the motto of David Cameron’s government. It is a month now since 276 girls were kidnapped from a school near the town of Chibok in northern Nigeria,
Portrait of the week | 15 May 2014
Home David Cameron, the Prime Minister, said on television that he was ‘bullish’ about negotiating change for Britain in the European Union, but that there would be a referendum on membership by the end of 2017 ‘whether or not I have successfully negotiated’. In a telephone poll by Lord Ashcroft the Conservatives were found to
Four stories the EU would like the right to have forgotten
Memory holes The EU wants to introduce a law which would force Google to delete from its searches old information that individuals and organisations would prefer forgotten. Some things that come up when you write ‘EU’ and ‘scandal’ into Google: — A 2009 EU document advising officials to write two minutes of every meeting: a
