Frackers
‘Next week we’re culling frackers.’
The Spectator
Thursday
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
Portrait of the week | 24 October 2013
Home The government agreed a guaranteed price for electricity that persuaded a consortium led by the French-owned EDF Energy and including Chinese investors to agree to build the Hinkley Point C power station in Somerset. The strike price agreed was £92.50 per megawatt hour (compared with a current wholesale price of £45). Following an energy
Books and Arts – 24 October 2013
Tuesday
Transcript: John Major calls for an emergency tax on energy companies
Sir John Major told a Westminster lunch this afternoon that the government should impose an emergency tax upon the energy companies to help families keep warm this winter. Here is a transcript of what the former Conservative Prime Minister said: I think when Ed Miliband made his suggestions about energy some weeks ago, I think
Thursday
bra
'No good?'
Post
‘Three bills and a sample of shampoo — you’ll have to do better than this now I’m a shareholder.’