Bgt
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‘Is Ed Miliband actually talking or is it Nicola Sturgeon doing his voice?’
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Thursday
Bo Peep
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‘Apparently she used to be a city tour guide.’
Krill
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Tv 7
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‘I can’t stand Labour party electioneering. What’s on ITV?’
Magnet
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Fridge magnet
Romance
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Proposals
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‘Oh, Malcolm — is this a raft of proposals?’
Lib Dem
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Hello 2
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Addicted
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‘We’re worried he may be addicted to online porn.’
Death Threat
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‘We must remember to send the Johnsons a death threat.’
Earthlings
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‘Do you ever wonder just what Earthlings look like?’
Oil 2
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‘You’re right — oil on canvas.’
Smartphones
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‘The problems started when we both lost our smartphones and had to talk to each other.’
Letters | 23 April 2015
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Enemies within Sir: I thought Matthew Parris was typically incisive in his last column, but perhaps not quite as much as the person who wrote its online headline, ‘Scotland knows the power of a common enemy. We English don’t’ (18 April). It is true that ‘the wish to be the underdog’ is a defining urge
Barometer | 23 April 2015
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Any answers? Nigel Farage accused the audience in the BBC opposition leaders’ debate of being left-wing. Need insulting an audience destroy a political career? — Former US Vice President Dan Quayle did it on a number of occasions, telling an audience of American Samoans in 1989: ‘You all look like happy campers to me.’ Two
Portrait of the week | 23 April 2015
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Home The prospect of a parliamentary alliance between Labour and the Scottish National Party injected an element of fear into the election campaign. The SNP manifesto promised to increase spending and to find a way to stop the renewal of the Trident nuclear deterrent. Nicola Sturgeon, the SNP leader, said she wanted to make Labour
The other union
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The election campaign is becoming increasingly dominated by a small party whose raison d’être is to preach independence from membership of a union it claims is hindering national ambition. But the party is not Ukip, which had been expected to play a big role in this election. It is the Scottish National Party, which seems
Books and arts – 23 April 2015
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The Spectator at war: Soldiers of Italy
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From ‘Soldiers of Italy’, The Spectator, 24 April 1915: It is winter in Florence. The sun shines, but snow lies low on Monte Morello, and the tramontana blows cold as ice, out of a piercingly blue sky. The streets and squares are crowded. Bells are ringing, bands playing, troops marching. The soldiers are coming back from
