Under the shadow of the Crimean situation, Harry Cole travelled to Washington DC to find out what American conservatives really make of Putin. He asked attendees of this month’s Conservative Political Action Conference (CPac) who is worse — President Obama, or President Putin?
In a speech given at Tilbury Port in Essex, Chancellor George Osborne hailed cuts to business and personal taxes this week as the ‘biggest in two decades’ – and committed to ‘fight for full employment in Britain’. Here’s what he said:- Thank you for coming here to Tilbury Port, this morning. We’re all here at
‘I want you to tick all the boxes’
‘It’s Zok here from the “human abduction team”. Do we have disabled access facilities?’
‘Men — they’re all the same.’
‘I make it 8.36.’
‘Anti-smoking propaganda has really hardened.’
‘And verily I say to you, go forth and multitask.’
‘I do wish you wouldn’t look at the outside world — you know it only upsets you.’
‘Night, night. Sleep tight.’
‘I’m bravely taking a make-up-free selfie.’
‘Dad, can I borrow the pension pot for the weekend?’
‘I’m in for assaulting Ant, but it’s a case of mistaken identity — I thought it was Dec.’
‘We’ll start with a pub and a bingo hall.’
‘Congratulations! It’s a jobless young person.’
‘There’s only one sanction Putin will respond to – we must throw Russia out of the Eurovision Song Contest immediately.’
Why we need a free press Sir: As bereaved parents and (to borrow from some signatories of last week’s advertisement) victims of public authority abuse we wholly oppose adoption of the politically endorsed Royal Charter of Press Regulation. The European Court of Human Rights ruled that Christopher, our mentally ill son, had been denied his
Escapology This week marked the 70th anniversary of the Great Escape, when 76 Allied servicemen tunnelled out of Stalag Luft III prisoner of war camp in Poland. Fifty of them were executed on recapture. How successful were escape attempts? — At least 483 Allied servicemen escaped German camps. Only 12 reached home turf, including three
