Adopting a boxing pose in 1950. Speaking in the early 1960s. After being sentenced to life imprisonment in the Rivonia trial, Mandela and seven other men leave the Palace of Justice in Pretoria 16 June 1964 with their fists raised in defiance through the barred windows of the prison car. Mandela and his wife Winnie
‘Lock the doors!’
‘I’d like to book a mountain rescue team for 8pm’
‘I’d like to book a mountain rescue team for 8pm’
‘Can we cut all the green crap?’
‘Let’s elope to Gretna Green to separate.’
‘If I were you I’d forget about it.’
‘We’re still looking into it, but we’re pretty sure it stands for “Kind, Friendly, Courteous” chicken farm.’
‘Hello, we’re trying to find somewhere we can smoke…’
‘Henceforth to be known as Frackland...’
‘Next time they offer us something to make our lives more comfortable, let me do the talking.’
‘Sweetheart, would you like to tweet grace?’
‘It’s the Belmonts. They’ve found a potato from their allotment that looks like Elvis, do we want to go round?’
‘Since the galley had new Spanish owners, the rhythm of the galley slaves had gone haywire.’
‘OK. Can we make that the last time you refer to Christmas as “Black Wednesday”?’
‘You open the door and hundreds of thousands of Bulgarians come flooding through.’
Climate scientists write… Sir: Lord Lawson has written in his diary (30 November) under the online summary headline ‘my secret showdown with the Royal Society on global warming’, but the reality is rather different. As he is aware, the purpose of the meeting on 19 November was not to put on a public performance, but
