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Thursday
Weasel
‘Apparently, that is the way the money goes, gentlemen. The weasel has popped!’
Critic
‘You two will have so much to talk about. You’re a debut novelist and Quentin here is a debut book critic.’
Vicar 3
‘More Baroness T, vicar?’
Afterlife 2
‘I’m a bit disappointed by the afterlife, me.’
Sand
‘I suggested a “sand castle” but he wanted to make a “sand iPhone”.’
Tootsies
Scrap 2
‘A bag of pound coins, you say?’
Motoring
Soup 2
‘Waiter, there’s a greenfly in my soup!’
Mushrooms
‘Drug squad! Open up!’
Indiscretion
‘Oh no – your civil partner and my ex-husband!’
Classes
‘Nobby, Yuppy, Greedy, Thrifty, Crafty, Yobby and Needy.’
Scrounger
Divisive
Hugh
‘A state of true harmony can only be achieved when all Hugh Grant’s needs are satisfied.’
Letters | 11 April 2013
Health tourists must pay Sir: The extent of the use made by non-entitled patients from abroad (‘International Health Service’, 6 April) should come as no surprise. This increasing stream of information demonstrating the volume and variation will cause even louder gasps and shock. The NHS is the standard-bearer of the politics of equality and, like
Mrs T’s unfinished business
Soon after Margaret Thatcher was elected leader of the Conservative party she came for lunch at The Spectator and our then proprietor, Henry Keswick, wanted to offer his congratulations — and his advice. It was time to crush the trades unions, he told her. ‘Mr Keswick,’ she replied. ‘You have spent the past 14 years
Portrait of the week | 11 April 2013
Home Margaret Thatcher, the prime minister from 1979 to 1990, died aged 87. She had suffered a stroke while reading in her room at the Ritz hotel, where she had been staying since being discharged from hospital at the end of 2012 after a minor operation. David Cameron, the Prime Minister, cancelled talks in Paris
Audio: Lords’ tributes to Margaret Thatcher
As Isabel said yesterday, the standout speech in the Upper Chamber yesterday came from Norman Tebbit, who served for six years in Margaret Thatcher’s Cabinet, first as Secretary of State for Employment, then as Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, and finally as Chairman of the Conservative Party. Here’s the full audio of his
