David Cameron’s speech at the Conservative conference – full text and audio
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The Spectator
Wednesday
Tuesday
Boris Johnson’s speech to the Conservative conference: full text and audio
listen to ‘Boris: ‘It’s time to cut the yellow Lib Dem albatross from around our necks’’ on Audioboo
Monday
George Osborne’s speech to the Conservative conference: full text and audio
listen to ‘George Osborne’s speech to the Conservative conference’ on Audioboo At every Party Conference since the election, as we have gathered, the question for us, the question for me, the question for our country, has been: ‘is your economic plan working?’. They’re not asking that question now. The deficit down by a third. Exports
Thursday
Erotica
‘Thank you for letting us read Poppy the Woodland Rabbit. Unfortnately, it’s not really our sort of thing’
Goldfish
‘The goldfish wants feeding, dear..’
Bins
Dolls
‘I feel so empty now the children have left.’
Nude
‘When you said you were “doing a nude”, I thought you wanted me to take my clothes off.’
Alarm
‘He was everything I was looking for in a man — which set alarm bells ringing straight away.’
Satnav 3
The outlaw Ned Kelly no longer got lost in the outback now that he had a satnav
Hideous
‘How absolutely hideous — it’ll go perfectly with those shoes I never wear.’
Wax
‘It’s the latest beauty treatment — combined aromatherapy and full-body wax.’
Ed
‘Bring out yer Ed.’
Clegg
‘Oh dear — that sausage I ate is about to do a U-turn.’
Photo
‘That’s the wife or the mistress, I forget which.’
Wifi 2
Letters: On quitting Facebook, and putting down Nigel
Why we joined Sir: I was astonished by the assertion made by Wyn Grant (Letters, 21 September) that ‘the postwar surge in Conservative party membership was due to people rebuilding their social lives after the war’. Where did that idea come from? I grew up in south London before and during the war. I recall
The death of Aids
In a week in which the world is once again invited to consider the prospect of climatic Armageddon, it would be easy to miss the news of remarkable progress against one of the greatest killers known to mankind. UNAIDS, the United Nations agency responsible for the global battle against Aids, forecast that the epidemic will