Bankers
‘And that one’s our pay.’
The Spectator
Thursday
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.’
Scrabble
Television
Fish
‘Mum, Dad! Are we nearly there?’
Stairlift
‘We’re going to my Grandad’s. He’s got this awesome stairlift.’
Tattoos
‘You don’t think he’ll regret it when he’s older?’
Twitter 3
‘Was it something I said on Twitter?’
Iparent
iParent and Child
Flat
Teambuild
‘These team-building exercises are getting ridiculous.’
Alchemy
‘I told you alchemy was nonsense.’
Bolshevik
‘The house red, sir.’
Wasp
‘It’s wonderfully waspish.’
Rada
Nut
‘We need the long summer holidays to recharge our batteries after organising strikes.’
Letters | 25 April 2013
Lady Thatcher’s club Sir: Charles Moore’s excellent paragraph (Notes, 20 April) on Baroness Thatcher’s life achievement in the context of much less social advantage than that of Sir Winston Churchill concludes on one mildly false assertion: ‘At the end, as at the beginning, she had no club.’ In fact, from 1978 until the end, she
Barometer | 25 April 2013
Dyeing and dying A teacher in Harrow complained to his MP that he had been banned from marking pupils’ work in red ink in case it upset them. Some origins of ink: Black Made from burned bones, tar and pitch in India by the 4th century BC. Made from soot in China by the 3rd