Robots
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‘The rise of the machines is more prosaic than I expected.’
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Thursday
Selfie 5
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Getaway
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‘It’s so wonderful you’re buying me an engagement ring, but why do we need a getaway driver?’
Supermarket 2
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Chef 2
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Incident
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‘Oh my God! There’s some sort of major incident going on around here somewhere.’
Wreckage
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‘I love you, darling, but I’m leaving you for another piece of wreckage.’
Doom
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‘Social network sites have made it so much easier to lure sailors to their doom.’
News 3
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‘They’re called that because historically they had news in them.’
Elephants 2
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‘Darling, there’s an elephant in the womb.’
Jihadi Wedding
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‘You may now kill the bride.’
Burka 2
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Dress 2
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‘What colour is this dress?’
Flasher
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‘It’s that flasher again — pretend we haven’t noticed him.’
Spectator letters: How to save the Union; who cares for Paolozzi’s murals
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A disaster for unionists Sir: I share Alex Massie’s view that ‘this election is going to be a disaster’ for us unionists (‘Divided we fall’, 28 February). It is almost too painful to recall that it will mark the 60th anniversary of a great victory in May 1955 when the Tories, standing as Scottish Unionists,
The perils of planespotting
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A dangerous hobby Three men from Greater Manchester were arrested and held in the UAE after being seen writing down the numbers of aircraft. — Plane-spotting can be risky. In 2001 14 Britons were arrested in Greece after allegedly taking photos at an air base in Kalamata. Eight were sentenced to three years; imprisonment for
If you really love the NHS, you know it needs to change
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To adapt Aeschylus’s aphorism on war and truth, the first casualty in a general election campaign is objectivity. Over the next eight weeks NHS staff can expect nothing but saccharine praise from politicians who are falling over themselves to say how wonderful the health service is, how committed they are to it. The Conservatives may
Portrait of the week | 5 March 2015
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Home The man seen in several Islamic State videos of hostages being beheaded, nicknamed Jihadi John by the British press, was revealed as Mohammed Emwazi, aged 26, born in Kuwait but raised from the age of six in London. He was said to have had help with anger management at his secondary school, Quintin Kynaston
Books and arts – 5 March 2015
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The Spectator at war: Racing post
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From ‘Ascot in Wartime’, The Spectator, 6 March 1915: [To the Editor of “THE SPECTATOR”] SIR,—There has been much discussion recently over the question of the Epsom Grand Stand. As to the rights and wrongs involved in that discussion I hardly think there can be two opinions. But, Sir, I ask your permission to address you
