Malmsey
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‘He objected to Richard III’s funeral arrangements.’
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Thursday
Easter 3
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‘Excuse the mess — we’ve had the decorators in.’
Phone 7
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‘You wake up after 100 years and the first thing you do is check your phone.’
Bore 3
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Excalibore
Omg 3
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‘We wanted them to have contemporary names — this is Omg and Lol.’
Mp 3
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‘If we don’t give you any money will you stay away from our doorstep?’
Witch 3
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‘I got help to buy from a food bank.’
Mob
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‘Ooh! Nearly there. You want the Von Dorffs, up the hill to your left.’
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
