When the wind blows Sir: Clare Oxford’s piece (‘Gone with the wind turbines’, 12 April) is both timely and sad. Those who applaud the use of these infernal machines are prone to eulogise their efficiency by saying (in the same annoying, dumbed-down way in which commentators always compare the size of something with the number
Home Nigel Evans, who had resigned as deputy speaker before being cleared of a bundle of rape and sexual assault charges against men, questioned the right of the Crown Prosecution Service to pursue cases that were ‘decades’ old and said that people should not have to spend their life savings defending themselves. Sajid Javid was
Possibly because his oratory is no match for his much-displayed pectoral muscles, the speeches of Vladimir Putin are seldom reported at length in the West. But as a means of understanding the manoeuvres in eastern Ukraine this week, there is no better starting point than the speech he made to the Duma when the Russian
Done a runner Mami Konneh Lahun, a 24-year-old athlete from Sierra Leone, went missing after finishing as the 20th-placed woman in the London Marathon. She is not the first athlete to have done a runner. — In the 2002 Commonwealth Games, 20 of her compatriots failed to return home. — After the London Olympics, 21
‘As we all know, Jeffrey was an alcoholic… erm… sorry… workaholic’
‘Apart from making a buzzing noise and an inability to find an open window, what else do you do?’
‘My door is always open, Tracy. Could you get someone to fix that?’
‘So, where are we off to today?’
‘Enough of the jewels, potatoes and tobacco, Sir Walter. Tell me more about e-cigarettes.’
‘That Shard is a monstrosity, don’t you think?’
‘A spreadsheet on a memory stick would have been fine.’
‘Why do you say “we’ve got to talk” when what you mean is I’ve got to listen?’
‘There’s a brilliant new section on London’s food banks.’
‘Hey — is that your wife in the hotel opposite this hotel?’
‘Have we tried turning it off and then on again?’
‘I’m afraid you can’t smoke here, sir.’
