Counting on the country Sir: I spent many hours helping to canvas for local Conservative candidates before the last two elections (‘The countryside revolts’, 2 November). I was motivated to do so because of the Labour government’s prejudice against the rural community. The Conservative party offered a chance to redress this prejudice through repealing or
Dog’s dinner A Canadian hiker rescued in Quebec was reported to have killed and eaten his German shepherd dog in spite of it having saved him from a bear. Who else, outside Southeast Asia, has survived on dog? — Ernest Shackleton and his party in the Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition of 1914-17 were forced to eat
Home Three Police Federation representatives accused of giving misleading accounts of a meeting with Andrew Mitchell over the Plebgate scandal are to undergo a second investigation by the Independent Police Complaints Commission. Mohammed Ahmed Mohamed, 27, whose movements are restricted under a Terrorism Prevention and Investigation Measure (known as a T-Pim) went missing after changing
One remarkable fact of recent years is that even as the veterans of the first world war have died and as those who served in the second world war have headed through their eighties and beyond, the memory of the 20th century’s two most devastating wars has continued to be honoured with thoughtfulness and devotion.
It is great to be here in Battersea with you today. Last Friday, I was in my constituency, at the local Citizens Advice Bureau. And I talked to some people who had been preyed upon by payday lenders. There was a woman there in floods of tears. She was in work. But she took out
‘Well, I’ve assessed the property and it’s not going to be cheap’
‘They’re much funnier on the internet’
‘I’m coming out — I want the world to know...’
‘My wife and I are having trouble conceiving.’
‘I thought you said lions didn’t climb trees.’
‘Before you take me away I just want to update my profile picture.’
‘Quick, turn it over. I only have to look at Jamie Oliver and I pile on the pounds.’
‘I wasn’t staring at you — I was staring through you!’
‘If a tree falls in the forest and no one is there to hear it, does it still end up on Twitter?’
‘I’m all for HS2 if it gets Morrissey sent back to Manchester quicker.’
‘How did your meeting with the lobbyists go?’