Mob
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‘Ooh! Nearly there. You want the Von Dorffs, up the hill to your left.’
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Greek
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Granny 2
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‘Poor granny — technology has completely passed her by.’
Bore 2
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Excalibore
Tat 2
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Phone 6
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‘You wake up after 100 years and the first thing you do is check your phone.’
Hulahoop
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‘I don’t care if you did misread the sign — this is not a hula-hooping toilet!’
Open Sesame
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Begging 3
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‘I’m old money.’
Spectator letters: who kept us out of the euro, and how to deal with squirrels
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The referendum parties Sir: Zac Goldsmith and Sir John Major are each of them both right and wrong on the EU referendum (‘My dad saved Britain’, 28 February; Letters, 21 March). I was an MP interested in Europe, and then a PPS and minister on EU issues in the Foreign Office from 1997 to 2005,
A censored hymn to motorway misery
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Service record The government is to form a design panel to improve motorway services stations. These have not always charmed the British public, not least the very first: Watford Gap services, which opened in 1959 on the same day as the first stretch of the M1. — It quickly became a night-time haunt of rock
How to fix our defence budget mess
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With the exception of 1983, when Michael Foot promised unilateral nuclear disarmament, defence has played little role in modern election campaigns. This is not least because the two main parties appear to have developed a non-aggression pact. They have agreed to heap praise upon the armed forces and commit them to ever more frequent foreign
Portrait of the week | 26 March 2015
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Home David Cameron, who was cutting up lettuce in his kitchen, told James Landale of the BBC that he would not seek a third term as Prime Minister, even if he secured a second. Mr Cameron was heckled the next day by pensioners at an Age UK conference. He had mentioned Theresa May, George Osborne and
Books and arts – 26 March 2015
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As it happened: TV Q&A with David Cameron and Ed Miliband
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Welcome to The Spectator’s live coverage of the Q&A session with David Cameron and Ed Miliband on Channel 4 and Sky News. We’ll be providing the latest developments and analysis on the programme, starting at 9pm this evening. This page will automatically reload.
The Spectator at war: President Wilson’s mistake
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From ‘President Wilson’s Mistake’, The Spectator, 27 March 1915: President Wilson’s attitude can only be described as a tragedy. We do not believe that there was a man more determined than he was when he entered office to conduct his administration on moral lines, and to show the world that morality and politics are not
March Wine Club | 26 March 2015
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Chateau Musar is one of those delightful oenological quirks – a remarkable wine of great style produced under extraordinarily difficult conditions in the most unlikely of places: Lebanon’s Bekaa Valley. If the success of past offers is anything to go by, Musar has a huge following among Spectator readers and we’re delighted that both Chateau
Better off out
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From ‘President Wilson’s Mistake’, The Spectator, 27 March 1915: The Americans have a world of their own in which to take sides physically, and are perfectly entitled to say to Europe: ‘You must do your own police work and restrain your own malefactors. Europe must not expect from us more than abstract sympathy in regard to
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The Spectator at war: Counting the cost
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From ‘News of the Week’, The Spectator, 27 March 1915: The controversy as to what should be our future military policy in the west still goes on, and calculations are made on the basis of the inquiry — If it cost us so many thousand men to advance two miles on a front of four,
Tuesday
The Spectator at war: The ordinary and the extraordinary
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From ‘The Industrial Situation’, The Spectator, 27 March 1915: The present industrial situation shows how completely what we may call the economic pacificists misjudged the probable effects of a great European war. Instead of our industries being brought to a standstill, they are in a condition of abnormal activity. The trouble is not to find