Relate
‘OK, Pip and Estella . . . ’
The Spectator
Thursday
Tv 3
‘Oh, well, if there aren’t any programmes on about policemen chasing scantily clad, drunken fat girls around the centre of Cardiff, I’m off to bed.’
Tories
‘They say that the crew are all hopeless Tories, doomed to spend eternity wittering on about Europe and limits on abortion.’
Ranger
Coma
‘Let’s see. Coma. Coma. Coma. Coma. Coma. Chameleon.’
Bond 2
‘Fruit juice, shaken not stirred . . . ’
Zoo
‘My mistake — petting zoo is next door along.’
Time
‘We have some time to kill.’
Neglect
‘We’re going to rush you straight through to intensive neglect.’
Undecided
‘I’m undecided which way I would vote in an election — just as I’m undecided whether to let off the thermal nuclear device I’m building in my garage.’
Texting
‘Here endeth the texting’
Antiques
‘I’d say it’s Chinese.’
Undercover
‘We have very high standards here — all our staff are undercover reporters.’
Poppy 2
Forest
Teenagers
‘My Dad’s a Tory backbencher — he’s going through a rebellious phase.’
Letters | 8 November 2012
Votes of no confidence Sir: Charles Moore (The Spectator’s Notes, 27 October) rightly drew attention to the importance of the Police and Crime Commissioner elections and the arrogance of Lord Blair in suggesting they should be boycotted. However, he did not comment upon the fact that none of the literature admits which voting system is
Portrait of the Week – 8 November 2012
Home David Cameron, the Prime Minister, flew to the Gulf to sell Typhoon jets to Dubai and Saudi Arabia. On the border of Jordan with Syria he said he shared a ‘goal of a Syria without Assad’. Mr Cameron appointed Mrs Justice Macur to examine the treatment of allegations of sexual abuse at children’s homes
