Goliath
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‘It’s another disproportionate Israeli response.’
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Thursday
Ice
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Lamp
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‘Sorry, I seem to have rubbed you up the wrong way.’
Missing
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Tattoo 4
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‘And what girl’s name will it be today, Señor Don Juan?’
Godfellas
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Godfellas
Waterboard
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‘Turns out they provide water to the local community. They don’t know anything about interrogation techniques.’
Recording
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Yamaha
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‘It’s the new Yamaha, old boy! The Minute Waltz… 53 point two dead!’
Shout
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‘I’ve called this meeting to shout at you all…’
Immigrants
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Who
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‘I’ll watch Doctor Who, but when the news comes on I’m off behind the sofa.’
Rennard
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Six rivals for the name Isis
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Not in their name The BBC decided to start calling the Islamic terror group Isis by the acronym IS instead. Some organisations who are retaining the name: — Isis Equity Partners London-based private equity group — The Isis Student magazine at Oxford University — Isis day spa and hair salon in Oxford (not to mention
Spectator letters: Indian soldiers, wigs, PR and 1984
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We do remember them Sir: I applaud Tazi Husain’s defence of the role played by Baroness Warsi at Westminster Abbey during the first world war and his own role in driving forward the Tempsford Memorial Trust (Letters, 23 August). But he is mistaken in believing that soldiers of the Indian army (and other Imperial forces) are
Who will be held to account for the horror in Rotherham?
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If Rotherham council were a family, its children would have been removed by social services long ago, and Ma and Pa Rotherham would be safely behind bars. Professor Alexis Jay’s report, which was published this week, reveals depravity on an industrial scale in the South Yorkshire town. At least 1,400 children, Prof. Jay estimates, were
Portrait of the week | 28 August 2014
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Home Theresa May, the Home Secretary, said that Britons who went to Syria or Iraq to fight could be stripped of their citizenship, if they had dual nationality or were naturalised. Her words came during a search for the identity of the British man in a video of the beheading of the American journalist James
Books and arts – 28 August 2014
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Podcast: Britain’s ambulance crisis, Cameron’s European way and the cultural generation gap
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999, what’s your emergency? This time, it’s one right at the heart of the ambulance service, as Mary Wakefield reveals in this week’s Spectator. Paramedics are fleeing and needless calls are mounting. But why is the government refusing to take notice? And why are paramedics being denied the respect they deserve? Mary discusses her findings
The Spectator at war: The first battle
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‘News of the Week’ in The Spectator, 29 August 1914: THERE is cause for manly anxiety, there is cause for stern determination; above all, there is cause for unflagging energy in military preparation; but there is no cause for despair, or even for despondency. If the effort of will is maintained by the nation, and
