Cow
The Spectator
Thursday
Dairy
‘Is your outdoor, free range, farm-assured, locally sourced low-fat semi-skimmed milk from a cow?’
Parents
‘I can’t wait to introduce you to my parents — they’ll so disapprove.’
Budget
‘Let’s hope the gravy train’s replaced with a gravy bus service.’
Targets 2
‘Are we on target to get rid of our targets?’
Skype 2
‘I’m afraid I’ve been Skyping someone else.’
Screen
Swan
‘Take me to your Leda.’
Khatwoman
‘Oh no — it’s Khatwoman.’
Inspectors
Gun 2
Energy 2
‘Hello, the Low Energy Company...’
Budgie
‘I’m not sure you’re quite suited to the job’
Letters | 14 February 2013
Militant humanists Sir: Thank God for Douglas Murray (‘Call off the faith wars’, 9 February). It is possible that I have been counting myself an atheist for longer than Richard Dawkins — if only because I am almost a decade older than he is. It is only fairly recently, though, that I began subscribing to the
Barometer | 14 February 2013
Takes all sports The government is to introduce a new strategy for sport in schools. To what educational ends can sport be used? — ‘Using Sport to Tackle Youth Crime’ US qualification for the over-14s — ‘Maths Through Sport — boost your pupils’ maths levels through physical activity and sport’. Active Learning Programme — ‘Using
Bonfire of the Establishment
In September 1955 The Spectator’s political commentator, Henry Fairlie, coined a term to describe the way in which Britain works which has been used ever since. The ‘Establishment’, he said, was the real mechanism through which power was exercised in this country. The elites of the business, political and media worlds wielded power via a ‘matrix
Portrait of the Week – 14 February 2013
Home Findus frozen beef lasagne was found to be 100 per cent horsemeat, and Tesco frozen ‘Everyday Value’ spaghetti bolognese 60 per cent horse. French suppliers blamed a Romanian abattoir. Waitrose withdrew frozen beef meatballs in which pork was thought to be present. Owen Paterson, the environment secretary, told the food industry to publish soon
Thursday
Sheep
‘Unfollow me.’