Heels
Killer heels
The Spectator
Thursday
Social
Igloos
Mortgage
‘I guarantee we won’t lend you any money.’
Prison 3
‘If you misbehave you’ll have to watch Ben Elton’s new sitcom.’
Scapegoat
‘You know, I suspect the government only set up this inquiry to shift the blame from themselves.’
Abu
‘This is the Department of Abu Qatada.’
Evil
‘It’s the square root of all evil.’
Letters | 2 May 2013
Goers and go-getters Sir: In her interesting article on the rising equality in the female world (‘Sex and success, 27 April), Alison Wolf states that A*/top-stream girls stay virgins until 20 ‘because they have more important things on their minds’. I am not sure about this. I certainly remember that this was not the case
Portrait of the week | 2 May 2013
Home In the run-up to local elections, Kenneth Clarke, the Minister without Portfolio, described the UK Independence Party candidates as ‘clowns’. RAF Waddington, Lincolnshire, assumed control of ten Reaper drone aircraft in use over Afghanistan. Irfan Naseer, 31, from Birmingham, the ringleader of a plot to use eight suicide bombers in attacks that could have
The hidden shame of Britain’s crime statistics
The press, declared Lord Leveson, must not be allowed to mark its own homework. There is one profession, however, which the government seems quite happy to allow to judge its own success. Every few months we are presented with the latest set of crime statistics and invited to believe that crime is falling, clear-up rates
Barometer | 2 May 2013
Dots on the map An Edinburgh man is planning to stay 60 days on Rockall, a rocky island in the Atlantic 200 miles off the Western Isles — the longest-ever stay. Rockall was claimed for the United Kingdom in 1955, but it is far from our remotest colonial possession. Other islands include: Oeno A 120-acre
Books and Arts – 2 May 2013
Tuesday
Alpha females
In her cover piece for this week’s Spectator, Alison Wolf describes the divide between ‘alpha females’ and other women. Here are some of the starkest differences, illustrated using figures from her book The XX Factor. 1. The rise of the alpha female. ‘In England, by the age of 16, girls are dividing into two distinct
Thursday
Bankers
‘And that one’s our pay.’
Job
‘I despair about the way this country’s going. It looks as if I’ll be the first person in my family for generations forced to get a job.’
Stairlift
‘We’re going to my Grandad’s. He’s got this awesome stairlift.’