Picasso
Jeff felt an inexplicable closeness to Picasso after becoming a Police Community Support Officer.
The Spectator
Thursday
Anger
‘The gods are in need of some serious anger management.’
Diversity
‘I preferred it when it was “ties”.’
Evolution
Tramps 2
‘I’m not living out of a suitcase, I’m living in a suitcase.’
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
