Mouse
‘Fiona, we’ve got a Cheshire mouse.’
The Spectator
Thursday
Why America’s ivory ban won’t help elephants
The Duke of Cambridge deserves credit for bringing his influence to bear on the growing tragedy of the elephant, whose population is being decimated by poaching. But his advisers should have been quicker to dissuade him from one aspect of his campaign: the threat to dispose of his grandmother’s ivory collection. That Africa’s elephant population
Spectator letters: Wind and bias, and the Scots at war
Caution over wind Sir: While the broadcast media have assailed their audiences with simplistic yet blanket coverage of the floods crisis, it behoves Christopher Booker to provide a long overdue critical perspective of the Environmental Agency (‘Sunk!’, 15 February). The two main tenets of his article have been ignored by most, if not all, other journalists.
Portrait of the week | 20 February 2014
Home It would be ‘extremely difficult, if not impossible’ for an independent Scotland to join the European Union, José Manuel Barroso, the president of the European Commission, said on British television. Alex Salmond, the leader of the Scottish National Party, said that if an independent Scotland was not allowed to use the pound, it would cost
Books and Arts – 20 February 2014
Thursday
Family
‘Some of us feel that all these photographs of your children send out the wrong message.’
Tea 2
Doctors
‘Let’s play doctors and health tourists.’
Flirt
Date 2
‘You were right, this is the most exciting first date I’ve been on.’
Separate
‘We lead separate lives these days.’
Gooseberry
‘But I’m not patronising you...We did find you under a gooseberry bush.’
Sleepwork
‘I never wake him up when he’s sleepworking.’
Cards 2
Spaceship
Spaceship in a bottle
Chop
‘Sorry, darling, but I’ve decided you’re not genetically suitable to be part of a breeding programme, so I’m going to chop you up and feed you to the lions.’
Marcel
‘Marcel — we need to talk!’
Smoking 6
Twitter 7
‘Good cat.’