Art
The Spectator
Thursday
Dog 2
Chef
‘Our chef holds three Michelin stars, which is why we recommend 20 minutes on the treadmill before dining.’
Parcel
‘Yes, sir, your parcel is being dispatched as we speak.’
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?’
Scooter
Pseud
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