Gun
‘You can’t beat the gun lobby — we’re loaded.’
The Spectator
Thursday
Wines
‘Oh, for goodness sake. Mummy’s going to have to pay for that now!’
Romans
‘We have to move with the times, captain — mechanisation is here to stay.’
Pollock
Lunch 2
‘Why does my parent have to be a professional chef?’
Jumpers
‘Statement jumpers are everywhere this season.’
Delia
Church
‘Today’s text is from St Paul.’
Buzzards
‘OK, fingers on buzzards, please.’
Bowie
Bletchley
‘HVQLO TWXBD YZRSU JDMVN SDYGH.’
Beggar
‘It’s not fair. Why should I have to fund your lifestyle choice?’
Letters | 17 January 2013
Aid waste Sir: In Andrew Mitchell’s response to my article ‘The Great Aid Mystery’ (5 January), he asks ‘what about the 11 million children in school who wouldn’t be there’ if it weren’t for DFID’s aid efforts. It would be hard to come up with a more representative example of the dishonest marketing rhetoric that
Portrait of the week | 17 January 2013
Home David Cameron, the Prime Minister, brought forward his speech on new relations with the European Union from 22 January when it was realised that it was the 50th anniversary of the Elysée treaty between Germany and France. Britain went to war in Mali by sending two transport planes in support of the French invasion
Just the tickets
Kingsley Amis was never a fan of the Arts Council. Writing in this magazine almost 30 years ago, he described it as a ‘detestable and destructive body’ whose grants and bursaries ‘in effect pay producers, painters, writers and such in advance’. This, he wrote, ‘is a straight invitation to them to sod the public, whose
Barometer | 17 January 2013
Equine dining Horsemeat was found in hamburgers sold by Tesco, among others. Why did eating horses become a taboo? — In the 8th century Pope Gregory III instructed St Boniface, missionary to Germany, to forbid the eating of horseflesh to those he converted to Christianity. — There has been no tradition of eating horsemeat in
Books and Arts – 17 January 2013
Grill the Housing Minister: Mark Prisk answers Coffee House readers’ questions
Housing Minister Mark Prisk’s brave request for a grilling from Coffee House readers generated a very enthusiastic response. Here are the minister’s answers to your questions. House Prices Q: What will the Government be doing to rebalance things back towards private buyers and away from the BTL speculators that have driven the market up to such
Wednesday
Rod Liddle on Moore, Burchill and Featherstone’s lovely bitch fight
In tomorrow’s Spectator, Rod Liddle gives his verdict on the social media storm caused by Suzanne Moore and then Julie Burchill. Liddle suggests that until the ‘entire bourgeois bien-pensant left’ self-immolates, leaving a slight scent of goji berries, bystanders can ‘enjoy ourselves watching them tear each other to pieces, mired in their competing victimhoods seething
