Ruin
The Spectator
Thursday
Polly
‘Hi, Polly . . . it’s me.’
Laugh
‘Miss Jones: laugh all the way to the bank for me.’
Ceiling 2
‘Do we want our glass ceiling cleaned?’
Divorce 4
‘Do stop sulking, Roger — the divorce law is the divorce law.’
Egg
‘And you blame your anti-social behaviour on coming from a broken egg?’
Fired
Twitter 5
Fracking 3
Lithuanians
‘I’ve hired a team of Lithuanians to help in our fight for higher wages.’
The Guardian didn’t care when Murdoch’s journalists were arrested. So why the hysteria now?
It is good to see the Guardian suddenly rediscover its interest in the sanctity of a free press. Just five months ago, the paper seemed to have given up on the idea, when it backed the statutory regulation of newspapers. It did not show any particular alarm when Rupert Murdoch’s journalists were hauled out of
Letters: GPs reply to J. Merion Thomas
Some doctors write Sir: Professor Meirion Thomas (‘Dangerous medicine’, 17 August) may be an excellent surgeon but he is uninformed about the nature of GPs’ work. For many older consultants in the NHS, it will have been decades since they last spent any time in a GP setting, if they have at all. He fails
The FA’s 99.6pc conviction rate, and other weird facts
We will remember them A German diplomat called on Britain to commemorate but not celebrate the centenary of the Great War. Some of the events planned so far: — Candle to be extinguished in Westminster Abbey at 11 p.m. on 4 August — First world war paintings to be displayed on 22,000 poster sites around
Portrait of the week | 22 August 2013
Home The cost of the HS2 railway line was expected by some in the Treasury to rise from £43 billion to £73 billion. The number of new homes being built in England rose by 6 per cent in the three months to June. The United Kingdom has lost more than 40 per cent of its
Friday
The week in books – a 19th century career woman, the courtesan of the camellias, Vasily Grossman and why France is turning into the USA
The forecast is bad. Football is back. Gloom strikes. Cure the malaise by reading the book reviews in this week’s Spectator. Here’s a selection: Richard Davenport-Hines introduces the celebrated American novelist and businesswoman Willa Cather to a British audience: ‘Cather was a pioneering career woman who in the late 1890s supported herself as a magazine editor
Thursday
penguin
‘Flying fish. Flying foxes. Birds, bats… You really like killing things that fly, don’t you?’
