Fly
‘Apart from making a buzzing noise and an inability to find an open window, what else do you do?’
The Spectator
Thursday
Door
‘My door is always open, Tracy. Could you get someone to fix that?’
Dummies 3
‘So, where are we off to today?’
Ecigs
‘Enough of the jewels, potatoes and tobacco, Sir Walter. Tell me more about e-cigarettes.’
Shard
‘That Shard is a monstrosity, don’t you think?’
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
