List 2
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‘What a great list! Have you considered a career in journalism?’
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Thursday
Farms
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Alive
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‘To be honest, usually both members of the couple are alive.’
Fantasy 2
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‘Take no notice — he lives in a fantasy world.’
Mobile
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‘Excuse Melanie, she’s come out without her mobile.’
Made
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‘We were made for each other, Susan.’
Trolley
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‘I’ve found you a trolley.’
Text 2
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‘Hell, this is a dead spot, I’ll just tell you what I was going to text you.’
France
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‘Oh yeah? Well, we used to walk to France for the weekend till you gang of weirdos started that messin’ about with the environment.’
Ethelred
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Hashtag
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‘So he’s @newborn123456. Does he have a hashtag?’
Calling
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‘I’m calling to find out if you got my text about the email I sent regarding the letter I wrote...’
Vicar 8
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‘Today’s text comes from…’
Spectator letters: Why rural churches are so important, and the best use for them
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The presence of a church Sir: The challenge for the Church of England and the wider community is to ensure that our village churches are a blessing and not a burden (‘It takes a village’, 21 February). The Church of England has approximately 16,000 churches, three-quarters of which are listed by English Heritage. Most of
Five more MPs making Malcolm Rifkind’s day rate
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Golden league Some MPs who earn Sir Malcolm Rifkind’s rate of £5,000 a day: — Sir Tony Baldry (Banbury): £3,333 for four hours work as deputy chairman of Woburn Energy. — Greg Barker (Bexhill and Battle): £20,000 for 30 hours providing advice to Ras Al Khaimah Development LLC. — Henry Bellingham (NW Norfolk): £7,500 for
Portrait of the week | 26 February 2015
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Home Sir Malcolm Rifkind, the former Conservative foreign secretary, resigned as chairman of Parliament’s Intelligence and Security Committee and promised not to stand for Parliament in May after he and Jack Straw, the former Labour foreign secretary, were suspended from their parties. This followed their being separately secretly filmed apparently offering their services for payment
The real problem with our MPs: they’re obsessed with the super-rich
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Had the public been asked, before Monday morning, to identify two MPs who stood for honesty and decency, the names Jack Straw and Sir Malcolm Rifkind would have been prominent among their replies. Both have served as foreign secretary, Straw also as home secretary and justice secretary. Neither seemed unduly driven by personal ambition, nor
Books and arts – 26 February 2015
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The Spectator at war: Animal sentries
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From ‘Animal Sentries’, The Spectator, 27 February 1915: OBSERVERS of birds have been much interested by the evidence, which seems to be fairly satisfactory, that pheasants in as remote a part of England as Westmorland were disturbed by the firing in the North Sea on the day of Sir David Beatty’s action and showed many
From the archives | 26 February 2015
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From The Spectator, 27 February 1915: Observers of birds have been much interested by the evidence, which seems to be fairly satisfactory, that pheasants in as remote a part of England as Westmorland were disturbed by the firing in the North Sea on the day of Sir David Beatty’s action and showed many signs of excitement.
