Books and Arts – 30 January 2014
The Spectator
Thursday
Thursday
Rockets
‘Fifteen targeting errors in a row. I just can’t find the weak link’
Nights
‘There goes my early night’
Children
‘Ugh! There are poor people living in our house.’
Bore
Trains 3
‘We apologise for the late arrival of your Christmas present.’
Catflap
Wife 2
The Wife of Sisyphus
Trolls 2
‘Internet trolls calling you fat and ugly? Big deal — fashion magazines have been calling their readers that for decades.’
Couples
‘More and more couples seem to be settling out of court these days.’
Dogs 5
‘Very nouveau leash.’
Card
‘Do you have any “Sorry I can’t apologise” cards?’
Hollande 2
Squirrel
‘May contain nuts? Can’t you be more definite?’
Jobshare
Witch 2
‘It’s a witch hunt.’
Why is the Church of England so obsessed with sex?
Four bishops and a retired civil servant shut away in a palace, talking about human sexuality — it sounds like the beginning of a bad joke. But the resulting Pilling Report is, in spite of 200 pages’ worth of double entendres, neither funny nor enlightening. It has been clear ever since the Lambeth conference in 1998,