Fish 4
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‘I’m getting very worried about our property bubble.’
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Pillaging
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‘Raping and pillaging? No, apparently they’re here to offer an affordable childcare service.’
Attention 2
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‘I know you’re my husband but this is the only way I can get you to give me a bit of attention.’
Problems
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‘You’re always in here creating a problem. Just get out.’
Subsidence
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‘Ah, you’ve noticed the subsidence.’
Cristal
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‘Cristal champagne or crystal meth, ma’am?’
Cat 4
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‘Mum, Dad, I’m a cat.’
Hs2 2
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God 4
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‘Don’t look so surprised… everything in the world is controlled through hedge funds these days.’
Model
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Work
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‘He helps us to work.’
Spectator letters: Julie Burchill’s faith, Belgravia’s basements, and the real cost of rail commuting
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Burchill’s flimsy faith Sir: It is funny that it now falls to the Julie Burchills of this world, the old rebels of the cultural left, to speak up for Christianity in Britain (‘For God’s Sake’, 26 April). Good for her, I say, especially since she identifies Protestantism as the greatest force for liberty in this
Are pigeons braver than dogs?
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Animal spirit A labrador blown up with her handler while sniffing for bombs in Afghanistan in 2008 became the 64th animal to be awarded the PDSA’s Dickin medal for ‘gallantry’ during wartime work. — Among the total are 29 dogs, yet they are outnumbered by the 32 pigeons who have won the medal, such as
A shameful U-turn at the National Trust
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What has happened to Dame Helen Ghosh? Last October the director-general of the National Trust seemed prepared to stand against the green orthodoxy which exists in the public and voluntary sectors. She declared that she had an ‘open mind’ on fracking, while she rejected the case for wind farms on the Trust’s land. Her approach
Portrait of the week | 1 May 2014
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Home The British economy grew by 0.8 per cent in the first quarter of 2014, disappointing hotheads who’d expected 1 per cent. It was 3.1 per cent bigger than a year earlier, but 0.6 per cent smaller than in 2008. Pfizer, the American pharmaceutical company, said it wanted to take over AstraZeneca, with a £60 billion bid that would make
Books and arts – 1 May 2014
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Thursday
Risk Assessment
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Pension Pot
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Stone Age Selfie
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Bread
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‘I’ve always loved nice bread then one day I thought, “I know, why don’t I bake my own?”’