Archers
‘De de de de de de der, de de de de der der —I HATE the Archers!’
The Spectator
Thursday
Island 2
‘Stop skimming stones! The island’s disappearing!’
Badgers 2
'Good news.'
Tweet 3
Skype
‘I’ve brought you some coffee.’
Alcohol
‘The government’s brought out another report on alcohol.’
Battle
Transport
‘Gets me from A to B.’
Lagging
‘Come in, Tom, excuse the mess, I’m just lagging the wife for winter.’
Chillax
‘Tweet that you’re far too busy to be chillaxing.’
Bake Off 2
The Great British Bake Off
Loathe
‘Do you believe in loathe at first sight?’
Prediction
‘I won’t be drawn on my predictions until the next election.’
Chillaxing
‘Tweet that you’re far too busy to be chillaxing.’
Crash
‘It wasn’t quite what I had in mind when I said we need to elect a leader.’
Cruise
‘I told you my pension pot would pay for a cruise.’
Letters | 18 October 2012
Testing faith Sir: I can sympathise with Melissa Kite’s concern over her friend’s apparently unconsidered marital conversion (‘Till faith do us part’, 13 October), but I wonder whether her panic at the idea of thousands of secular or nominal Christians converting for love is justified. Yes, it is easy to become a Muslim, while an
Politics of retreat
The closure of Britain’s consulate in Basra marks the end of an inglorious episode in our military history. This ought to have been the city where Britain would forever be seen as the liberator, given that it was our troops who supplanted Saddam Hussein’s forces almost ten years ago. Instead, Basra’s darkest moments came after
Portrait of the week | 18 October 2012
Home Theresa May, the Home Secretary, blocked the extradition of Gary McKinnon to the United States, where he is suspected of having hacked into government computers. She told the Commons there was no doubt he had Asperger’s syndrome and suffered from depressive illness, and that there was a risk of suicide. Dominic Grieve, the Attorney
Books and Arts – 18 October 2012
