Tea
‘You’ll have to excuse Ken, he gets argumentative when he’s sober.’
The Spectator
Thursday
Stonehenge
‘That’s the visitor centre finished. When do we start building the actual monument?’
Relax
‘I think you’ve turned the clocks a tad too far back, Charles.’
Bouncers
Surgery
‘I’d like to have her legs and she’d like to have my breasts.’
Frackers
‘Next week we’re culling frackers.’
Bathroom
‘Would you mind if I used your bathroom?’
Hammer
‘...hammer, chisel, screwdriver, spanner, saw, screws, nuts, bolts...Now all I need is a job.’
Streetview
Foodbank2
The economy is definitely picking up. That was just a soup kitchen six months ago.’
Boyfriend
‘My new boyfriend is just perfect — we find the same things depressing’
Foodbank
Otherside
‘There’s nothing worth watching on this side either.’
Cannabis 2
Tesco 2
‘Famine, meet wastage.’
Energy 3
‘Congratulations, sir, you fit the criteria to qualify for our newest tariff.’
Baking
Letters to the Editor | 24 October 2013
Ridley’s wrong Sir: In last week’s issue the former Northern Rock chairman rejoiced in the ‘good news’ that climate change would not start to damage our planet for another 57 years (‘Carry on warming’, 19 October). I am not a scientist. As a minister, I rely on the opinion of experts including the government chief
How the Spectator helped blow the whistle on health tourism
In February, an NHS surgeon came to The Spectator’s offices to discuss a piece he felt it was time to write. He wanted to blow the whistle on health tourism. Professor J. Meirion Thomas knew he was taking a tough decision, given the hostile reaction of the doctors’ unions and civil servants to anyone who
Barometer: How is the National Theatre like Tesco?
National statistics Some lesser-known facts about the National Theatre: — 26 per cent of its income comes from box office sales on the South Bank, 33 per cent from commercial productions elsewhere and 20 per cent from government grants. — Attendances at the main Olivier Theatre have fallen year on year since 2008/09, from 402,000