Police 5
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‘These massage parlours seem to be popping up all over the place.’
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Thursday
Bucket
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‘Right, Form 4B, what’s all this “Ice Bucket Challenge” nonsense?’
Block
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Writers’ block
Stonehenge 2
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‘We made this exciting new find that pre-dates the monument itself!’
Tribe
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‘Sorry — thought you were a lost tribe.’
Chewing
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‘In the end, we had to put the dog down. I caught him chewing my Manolo Blahniks.’
Investment
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‘I hope you’re not reading investment porn again.’
Wild
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Distressed
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I see you’ve gone for the distressed look.’
Hot
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‘I read that snakes like to live in hot environments.’
Toxic
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Vote 2
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Trans
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There are downsides to society’s new supportive attitude to transgender people
Shoe Repairer
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‘That’s how shoe repairers mark out their territory.’
Boris 3
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Shoe
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Scot
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‘I’ve come to Westminster to get away from all the politicians.’
Spectator letters: In defence of the EU, the Welsh and Mary Wakefield
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Breaking the unions Sir: By the time this letter appears we shall know whether the land of my birth has separated from the land of my life. I hope not. But is there not an uncanny parallel between the rise of the Scottish desire to quit England and the English desire to quit Europe? The
Portrait of the week | 18 September 2014
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Home People living in Scotland voted in a referendum that asked: ‘Should Scotland be an independent country?’ A great deal of ill feeling had been generated as the referendum campaign went on. David Cameron, the Prime Minister, was told by backbench Conservative MPs that he faced a ‘bloodbath’ for joining the United Kingdom leaders of
Alex Salmond’s success is just a symptom of our age of rage
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In his short and infrequent visits to Scotland this year, the Prime Minister should have found time to speak to those supporting the ‘yes’ campaign. He would have seen and heard precisely the same complaints and exasperation that are driving his other great foe, Ukip. For years, politicians have laughed about voters who are ‘mad
