Marriage 2
‘I now pronounce you man and secretary.’
The Spectator
Thursday
Faberge
Sherry
‘How sweet. He used to hate seeing his grandma but now he wants to come round here all the time.’
Unfaithful
Conch
‘Hey — I can hear the sea.’
Wheelchair
‘Wake up! You’re sleep-pushing again.’
Badger
Oedipuss
Cutwaway
‘No, that’s not a cutaway — I just had trouble getting the security tag off.’
Cryogenics
‘My tax-avoidance scheme will fund my death-avoidance scheme.’
Letters: Alan Sked on party politics, and how to win a pony show
Party politics Sir: I don’t think it is true that I would be unhappy in any party, as Ross Clark suggests (‘The end of the party’ 14 September). I was very happy in the old Liberal party, which I joined as a 14-year-old and did not leave for almost 20 years. I then became a
Barometer | 19 September 2013
Vitamins and the veil A judge at Blackfriars Crown Court allowed a niqab-wearing defendant to identify herself only to a policewoman, and a Birmingham college reversed a ban on students wearing veils on the campus. While the debate rages, the Jordanian Centre for Diabetes, Endocrinology and Genetics has identified a hazard associated with the garments:
Finally, the IPCC has toned down its climate change alarm. Can rational discussion now begin?
Next week, those who made dire predictions of ruinous climate change face their own inconvenient truth. The summary of the fifth assessment report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) will be published, showing that global temperatures are refusing to follow the path which was predicted for them by almost all climatic models. Since
Portrait of the week | 19 September 2013
Home The government sold 6 per cent of Lloyds Banking Group to big investors for £3.2 billion. It still owns 32.7 per cent of the bank. Barclays published details of plans to raise £5.95 billion by issuing new shares. The Financial Conduct Authority warned Barclays of a £50 million fine for a deal with Qatari
Books and Arts – 19 September 2013
Wednesday
Lib Dem conference: Nick Clegg’s speech – full text and audio
listen to ‘Nick Clegg: ‘We want to get in to government next time around’’ on Audioboo Three years ago – nearly three and a half – I walked into the Cabinet Office for my first day as Deputy Prime Minister. Picture it: history in the making as a Liberal Democrat leader entered, finally, into the
