Evolution
The Spectator
Thursday
Tramps 2
‘I’m not living out of a suitcase, I’m living in a suitcase.’
Bargain
Soup 3
Giant
‘Why do we bother coming to these giant car boot sales?’
Editing
‘I didn’t have time to read this one, but I thought the cover really needed editing.’
Nostalgia
‘Remember when we used to watch TV?’
Magpies
‘It started with milk-bottle tops…’
Legal
‘The Legal Aid cuts have had a catastrophic effect on our marriage — we’re still together.’
Swivel
Bullying
‘What’s all this about you bullying poor Michael Gove?’
Gnomes
‘How was it then?’
Brown
Foxes
‘These urban foxes are getting out of hand.’
Barometer | 23 May 2013
Gnome territory This year only, garden gnomes are allowed at the Chelsea Flower Show. Some other places to see them: Germany. The home of the gnome, where the first batch were manufactured in 1841, has an estimated 25 million. European Gnome Sanctuary, Barga, Italy. A town whose parks and gardens have become a dumping ground
Letters | 23 May 2013
Stay Conservative Sir: Dr John Hyder-Wilson wrote (Letters, 11 May) of my calls to ‘shift Tory party policy rightward’ to meet a threat from Ukip, which he felt was inconsistent as he could not remember me advocating a leftward shift in response to a threat from the SDP/Alliance in the early 1980s. Of course he
Good on you, Google – in praise of tax avoiders
Anyone who googled ‘tax avoidance’ this week will have been confronted (between adverts for accountancy firms) with endless stories about Google’s own tax avoidance schemes. If the company’s reputational management team was striving to stem the flood of bad publicity, it was not succeeding. Salvation for -Google arrived only when Apple’s tax avoidance became the
Portrait of the week | 23 May 2013
Home A senior figure in the Conservative party with strong social connections to David Cameron, the Prime Minister, was reported by the Telegraph and Times to have said that Conservative constituency associations ‘are all mad swivel-eyed loons’. Lord Feldman, the party’s co-chairman, said it was not he. Mr Cameron sent an email to party activists
Books and Arts – 23 May 2013
David Cameron’s statement on the Woolwich attack
What happened yesterday in Woolwich has sickened us all. On our televisions last night, and in our newspapers this morning, we have all seen images that are deeply shocking. The people who did this were trying to divide us. They should know something like this will only bring us together and make us stronger. Today
