Tattoo
‘We were impressed that you had the company logo tattooed on your forehead. But you haven’t got the job.’
The Spectator
Thursday
Relate 3
‘The magic’s gone out of our adultery.’
Eggs
Drone 2
‘Well, I still think using drones has taken something out of hunting.’
Hospital 2
‘They do say that on a clear day you can see a doctor.’
Local 2
‘It’s from the takeaway next door.’
Tax 2
Relating
Popcorn
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Effects
‘That’s the special effects sorted. All we need is a story to hang them on.’
Sign 3
Headless
‘As part of the divorce settlement, I get to keep the head.’
Daleks 2
‘I’ve discovered this marvellous acne cream.’
Lobbying 2
‘Is advertising yourself on eBay within the spirit of the rules?’
Letters: The barristers strike back
Legal squabbles Sir: Harry Mount’s angry and unfocused polemic (‘Against the Law’, 8 June), demonstrates a fundamental ignorance of the British legal system. That is surprising from a former barrister, even if he never practised after pupillage. British justice is revered worldwide, and for good reason. Rather than deal with the disastrous effects the proposals
Barometer | 13 June 2013
Souls on ice Three Oxford academics have revealed that they have paid to become cryonically preserved at death in the hope of one day being revived. A selection of the 117 clients lying in ‘patient care drawers’ at the Alcor Life Extension Foundation, Arizona: — Roy Schiavello, 30, programmer — Michael Louis Friedman, 32, lawyer
Portrait of the week | 13 June 2013
Home Six men from the West Midlands — Omar Khan, Jewel Uddin, Mohammed Hasseen, Mohammed Saud, Zohaib Ahmed and Anzal Hussain — were jailed for 18 or 19 years on terrorism charges after planning to bomb an English Defence League rally in Dewsbury, West Yorkshire, last year. After a fire caused minor damage at the Darul Uloom
Top secrets
This week’s exposé of the US National Security Agency has been heralded as the greatest intelligence leak since the Pentagon Papers. It is nothing of the sort. Far from revealing some institutional outrage, the whistleblower Edward Snowden merely appears to have found what any low-level intelligence source might find. Intelligence agencies try to find things
Books and Arts – 13 June 2013
