Apple
‘Watch him, Atkins. Remember, it takes only one bad apple.’
The Spectator
Thursday
Pond
‘We’re just agreeing the terms of your rescue.’
Postcode
‘I was talking to the wretched woman for at least ten minutes until I realised she was quite an unsuitable postcode.’
Divorce 2
‘I want my child to grow up in a typical family unit — that’s why I divorced his father.’
Mirage
Mirage
Breakup
‘I don’t necessarily want to break up. I just want to stop seeing you.’
Tourist
Tourist
Sign 2
‘Not a good sign...’
Political Playground
Political playground
Wodehouse
‘Shall I turn you in your grave now, sir?’
Igloo
‘A place of our own at last!’
Snowdome
Snowdome
Island 4
‘Oh my God! I can get Test Match Special.’
Needle
Needle
Placebo
‘You’ve been prescribed placebos — do you prefer capsules, or the liquid?’
Letters | 28 March 2013
Right to say NO Sir: Three cheers for the Spectator NO! (‘Why we aren’t signing’, 23 March). I would rather be informed by the slimiest of Fleet Street’s journalists or the rudest blogger than any one of Westminster’s incompetents. Dr A.E. Hanwell York Sir: Perhaps our newsagents should split the papers they sell into
Barometer | 28 March 2013
Economic migrants David Cameron announced that the government would make it harder for migrants to claim benefits, NHS treatment and social housing. Do migrants make a positive contribution to the public coffers? — A Home Office study using data from 1999-2000 concluded that migrants paid £31.2bn in taxes and used £28.8bn in public services, for
Portrait of the week | 28 March 2013
Home David Cameron, the Prime Minister, in a speech designed to show that Britain was no longer to be a ‘soft touch’ for immigrants, said that people from the European Union would have to show they had a ‘genuine chance of getting work’ in order to claim UK unemployment benefits for more than six months.
Twitter vs Easter
‘Distracted from distraction by distraction’ was one way in which T.S. Eliot described the inhabitants of ‘this twittering world’ in his Four Quartets. Eliot’s words seem more accurate today than even he might have expected. With the apparently ceaseless intrusion into our lives of permanent media feeds, gossip reported as news and news reported as
Books and Arts – 28 March 2013
