Prison
The Spectator
Thursday
Angels
‘You’ve been great contenders, but I’m afraid this week you’ve been voted out.’
Car
Book
‘Look, darling – she’s holding something called a book.’
Reality
‘The difficulty is, there’s not much reality left out there.’
Vicar 2
‘Shall I be brew bitch?’
Fuel
‘It’s what the hybrid vehicles run on.’
Dolphin
News item: Dolphin asks divers for help
Whatever
Rodin’s ‘The Whatever’
Fruit 33
Balance
‘OK, I’ve found a balance — now what?’
Antique
‘And can you tell me what it would have been used for?’
Lincoln
Hmv 2
Sweeps
‘Of course this couldn’t happen today.’
Insurance
‘Well of course I don’t have any tax or insurance — I’ve only just nicked it.’
Shilling
‘Is that the Queen’s Shilling, or a redundancy payment?’
Retirement
‘I had a lovely retirement, thanks — two weeks on the Algarve.’
Letters | 31 January 2013
Reforming criminal justice Sir: Crime continues to fall under this government and is now at its lowest level since the crime survey began in 1982. But we can’t be complacent. We still see too many of the same faces going round and round the criminal justice system, as Theodore Dalrymple notes in his article ‘The
Barometer | 31 January 2013
A desert mystery Insurgents were reported to have burned tens of thousands of ancient manuscripts in Timbuktu as French troops surrounded the city. Timbuktu has long been a byword for a distant and unreachable place. But how did it come to be so? — No European is known to have visited Timbuktu until Robert Adams,