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The Spectator
Thursday
Bottles
‘The post’s arrived.’
Awesome
Married
‘You can always tell the married ones.’
Recession 2
‘Here’s to us — we survived our first recession.’
Production
‘The big challenge in production-line work is to avoid peaking too soon.’
Bankers 2
‘I’ve switched bankers — this is George.’
Tagging 2
‘Am I right in thinking that this is the first time you’ve done tagging, Gary?’
Sherlock
‘Watson, this looks to me like a three e-pipe problem.’
Hollande
‘I’d rather be at the Elysée Palace.’
Zombie
Horse 2
Forget Wall St. The Wolves of Whitehall caused the crash – and could do so again
This week, Martin Scorsese’s film The Wolf of Wall Street opened and the Office of National Statistics reported that house prices are up by 12 per cent in London and by 5 per cent across the UK as a whole. While the former represents the cocaine-fuelled greed of bankers, which many like to think caused
Spectator letters: On the Pope, Jesus and Mandy Rice-Davies
Papal blessing Sir: In his excellent article on Pope Francis (‘Pope idol’, 11 January), Luke Coppen mentions the satirical rumour that the new pontiff had abolished sin. It could never be said, however, even in a spoof, that he has abolished the Devil, whom he has named and shamed on a number of occasions. What
Portrait of the week | 16 January 2014
Home David Cameron, the Prime Minister, said that English local authorities would be allowed to receive all the business rates collected from shale gas schemes, not just the 50 per cent they’d expect. Total, a French company, said it would invest about £30 million in drilling two exploratory wells in Lincolnshire. To head off higher borrowing
A successful obesity campaign? Fat chance
Fat chances The National Obesity Forum said that Britain is reaching a ‘doomsday scenario’ where half the population is obese. What happened to previous government campaigns to tackle obesity? — Between 1997 and 2008 the percentage of men getting the government’s recommended level of physical exercise grew from 32 per cent to 39 per cent,
Books and Arts – 16 January 2014
