Library 2
‘Can I have five quid?’
The Spectator
Thursday
Skyline
‘Those protestors are ruining the skyline.’
Selfie 3
Train 3
‘What? Everyone else works on the train.’
Magazines
Cake 2
‘Remind me to nip in and get some Battenburg on the way home’
Shoes 4
‘Area’s on the up. Jimmy Choo and Christian Louboutin.’
Tunnel 8
‘They got bigger boats and widened the tunnels.’
Stilettos
The seven-league stilettos
Steiff
‘Meet the trouble and Steiff.’
Hen
‘Are you sure about this? Most hens opt for a natural birth.’
Bono
‘Dear Bono…’
Fracking 5
‘Is that trembling with delight — or fracking?’
Poets
‘It’s the damned poets, sir — day and night.’
Fast
‘When you said you wanted to live life in the fast lane, I didn’t think you meant literally.’
Spectator letters: Ukip voters, royal tartans and a challenge for Dot Wordsworth
Don’t condescend to us Sir: How amazing that so many politicians are surprised by the message that there is dissatisfaction with the political status quo, and that this finds expression through rejection of the established political players (‘Ukip’s triumph’, 24 May). Fortunately for them there were few elections in the rural districts, or the message
If Alex Salmond is cutting bureaucracy, why does he have so many quangos?
Escape committees An LSE/Institute for Government report estimated the cost of Scottish independence at £2.7 billion, a sum arrived at by multiplying the 180 bodies which would need to be set up by £15 million. The SNP challenged the claim, saying it planned to set up a ‘slimmed-down’ administration. A reminder of some of the
Portrait of the week | 29 May 2014
Home David Cameron, the Prime Minister, responded to the triumph of the UK Independence Party in the European elections (which left the Conservatives in third place for the first time ever in a national poll) by having dinner with other European leaders in Brussels, which he said had ‘got too big, too bossy, too interfering’.
Europe’s extremists aren’t really on the right
This week, the European parliament took a strong lurch to the left. That is not quite the story that you may have read elsewhere — with most headlines stating that Europe has taken a lurch to the right — but it is the inevitable conclusion if you analyse the results from Sunday’s election from the perspective of
