It is unsurprising that public opinion in the UK and elsewhere, resents the notion that we should engage with the politics of the Middle East and beyond. We have been through painful engagements in Afghanistan and Iraq. After 2008, we have had our own domestic anxieties following the financial crisis. And besides if we want
‘It’s nice, but it’s a little over our price range.’
The last selfie
‘They’re short-term memory sticks.’
Raised by Wolves...
‘I’ve lost interest in TV now it’s no longer a criminal offence not to have a licence.’
‘Things are so bad in the bedroom department that she’s started sleeping in a shark cage.’
‘...in the top drawer on your side of the bed, you dumb schmuck!’
‘Don’t wake him up — sleepwalking is the only exercise he gets.’
‘I’d invite you in, but as we’ve already had sex behind the kebab van I don’t see there’s much point.’
‘This is what I was dreading — not having to fly home.’
‘He moved to the right before he got old.’
‘Apart from your generation’s over-inflated sense of self-worth, what else makes you the best candidate for this vacancy?’
‘I wish you’d get a job at GCHQ — then you might actually start to listen to me.’
When the wind blows Sir: Clare Oxford’s piece (‘Gone with the wind turbines’, 12 April) is both timely and sad. Those who applaud the use of these infernal machines are prone to eulogise their efficiency by saying (in the same annoying, dumbed-down way in which commentators always compare the size of something with the number
Home Nigel Evans, who had resigned as deputy speaker before being cleared of a bundle of rape and sexual assault charges against men, questioned the right of the Crown Prosecution Service to pursue cases that were ‘decades’ old and said that people should not have to spend their life savings defending themselves. Sajid Javid was
