Obese
‘Aren’t you worried you’ll make him obese?’
The Spectator
Thursday
Garden 2
‘We insisted the garden designer devote an entire section to a play area.’
Mps
‘We produce some of the country’s finest Labour MPs.’
Dogs 3
Drone 3
‘Oh no! It’s the drone ranger.’
Rowling
‘Apparently he’s really J.K. Rowling.’
Trophy
‘I’m slightly embarrassed by that one — no skill involved; only road rage.’
Lowry 2
‘Who let this riff-raff in?’
Ofted
Bbc 5
‘This is the voice of what remains of the BBC, coming to you from a hidden bunker somewhere in the UK…’
Scalpel
‘We’re a scalpel missing.’
Locust
‘Of course I understand your concern about always being on your own — you’re a locust, after all.’
Meeting 2
‘I’ll be honest: we’ve never thought you were good enough for our Lucy.’
First Church
Speeding
Man Struck by Speeding Police Car
Portrait of the week | 18 July 2013
Home Jeremy Hunt, the Health Secretary, put into ‘special measures’ 11 hospitals among the 14 with the worst death rates examined in an inquiry by Professor Sir Bruce Keogh. Professor Sir Brian Jarman, a contributor to the report, said: ‘If you don’t have enough trained nurses, as with doctors, you get higher death rates.’ The
Leader: Ring-fencing the NHS is only making matters worse
According to popular wisdom on the left — and even among some in the Conservative party — this ought to have been a tough week for the government. On Monday, the new £26,000 cap on benefits came into effect and with it a new principle: that no one on welfare should receive more than the average working
Letters: The Met Office answers Rupert Darwall, and a defence of Bolívar
Wild weather Sir: Weather and climate science is not an emotional or political issue — even though emotions and politics run high around it, as illustrated in Rupert Darwall’s article (‘Bad weather’, 13 July). However, it is important that opinions are rooted in evidence, and the article contains numerous errors and misrepresentations about the Met Office
Barometer | 18 July 2013
Running scared Three participants were gored at the Pamplona bull run. The event has reputation for danger, but how risky is it? —Since 1910, 15 deaths have been recorded, the last in 2009. Five of the deaths have been since 1980. — Counting of the participants began only 2011, when 20,500 people were recorded as
Books and Arts – 18 July 2013
