Rebekah Brooks and Andy Coulson had an affair that lasted at least six years, a jury heard today. A letter which revealed the affair was described as part of evidence produced by the prosecution in the trial of the two defendants. The letter had been written from Brooks to Coulson in 2004 and was found
‘You’ll have to excuse Ken, he gets argumentative when he’s sober.’
‘That’s the visitor centre finished. When do we start building the actual monument?’
‘I think you’ve turned the clocks a tad too far back, Charles.’
‘I’d like to have her legs and she’d like to have my breasts.’
‘Next week we’re culling frackers.’
‘Would you mind if I used your bathroom?’
‘...hammer, chisel, screwdriver, spanner, saw, screws, nuts, bolts...Now all I need is a job.’
The economy is definitely picking up. That was just a soup kitchen six months ago.’
‘My new boyfriend is just perfect — we find the same things depressing’
‘There’s nothing worth watching on this side either.’
‘Famine, meet wastage.’
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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
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
