Mean
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My date was so mean — he took me to a food bank.’
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Self
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Arm
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Drink 5
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‘May cause drowsiness . . . Do not drive or operate heavy machinery. . . Do not take if you have heart or liver problems. . . If concerned, consult your medical practitioner.’
Great
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‘Your great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great grandfather was at the Somme.’
Paternity
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‘I’ve told you before, you can’t take paternity leave if your wife’s given birth to another man’s child.’
Costa 2
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Tweet 6
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Models 3
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‘That George Osborne looks like he could do with a good feed.’
Parents 2
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‘What son?’
Corgis
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Vader
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‘You’ve got the wrong guy. I’m Darts Vader.’
Call Centre
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Squat
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‘I love what you’ve done to the place.’
Entrapment
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The first entrapment
Purr
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Spectator letters: PPE, Biblical bishops and Pamela Hansford Johnson
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Degrees of ability Sir: Nick Cohen has written an amusing piece on PPE (‘Crash course’, 27 September), marred by lazy journalism. I never said that Cameron was ‘my ablest pupil’, an impossible judgment to make. What I said was that he was ‘one of my ablest pupils’. He was also, incidentally, one of the nicest. And I
Don’t worry Brooks Newmark: paisley was sexy once…
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Paisley power Paisley pyjamas were in the news. While associated with the town in Renfrewshire, whose mills produced the patterns from 1805, what we know as paisley was first popularised in France thanks to its part in the courtship between the power couple of the day: Napoleon and Josephine. — While stationed in Egypt in 1798 he sent her a
Portrait of the week | 2 October 2014
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Home The Commons, having been specially recalled, passed, by 524 votes to 43, a motion supporting ‘the use of UK air strikes to support Iraqi, including Kurdish, security forces’ efforts against Isil in Iraq’. Only after four days did RAF Tornados from Akrotiri in Cyprus find some targets in Iraq to bomb. In support of
Britain doesn’t need hateful laws to defeat hate preachers
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If the Labour party conference in Manchester felt like a funeral, the Conservatives’ gathering in Birmingham had the air of a wedding. It had jazz bands, champagne bars and a near-universal mood of celebration — which is odd, given that every opinion poll and bookmaker reckons the Tories are on course to lose power next year.
