Shard
‘That Shard is a monstrosity, don’t you think?’
The Spectator
Thursday
Spgti
Spreadsheet
‘A spreadsheet on a memory stick would have been fine.’
Talk
‘Why do you say “we’ve got to talk” when what you mean is I’ve got to listen?’
Food 3
‘There’s a brilliant new section on London’s food banks.’
Pub 3
Wife 3
‘Hey — is that your wife in the hotel opposite this hotel?’
Gas
‘Have we tried turning it off and then on again?’
Kippers
‘I’m afraid you can’t smoke here, sir.’
Easter 2
Bush
Reality 2
‘Not another damn reality show!’
Trust
‘It’s all to do with regaining the public’s trust.’
Spectator letters: Remembering Clarissa Tan; and Hugo Rifkind replies to Matt Ridley
In loving memory Sir: When Clarissa Tan covered last year’s Good Funeral Awards, it quickly became apparent that she was a woman facing her greatest fears with a gentle and courageous spirit. She left an enduring impression on all who met her. In her subsequent article for this magazine (‘The ideal death show’, 14 September
The rise and fall of the Red Road flats
Flat pack Some facts about Glasgow’s Red Road Flats, built in 1968, which are to be demolished as part of the opening ceremony for the Commonwealth Games. — The original plans were for four-storey maisonettes rather than tower blocks. — At 31 storeys and 292 feet, the first blocks were the highest residential buildings in
Portrait of the week | 10 April 2014
Home Maria Miller resigned as Culture Secretary after a week of being the centre of a game of hunt-the-issue. She had paid back expenses, but only the £5,800 requested by the Commons standards committee, not the £45,000 suggested by the parliamentary commissioner for standards; she had apologised in the Commons, but her apology lasted only
It’s time to stop the omnishambles – and send Lynton Crosby to No. 10
[audioplayer src=”http://traffic.libsyn.com/spectator/TheViewFrom22_10_April_2014_v4.mp3″ title=”James Forsyth and Isabel Hardman on Maria Miller’s resignation” startat=1057] Listen [/audioplayer]Yet again, the Conservative party has reminded us that it is quite capable of losing the next election. The events leading up to Maria Miller’s resignation are entirely consistent with a party that is so gauche, so accident-prone, so surprised by basic
Thursday
Bar 3
‘We were always an odd couple. I’m a man, she’s a woman — it was never going to work.’
Cinderella
‘Stop calling us ugly and we’ll stop inflicting emotional child abuse.’