Books and Arts – 23 January 2014
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The Spectator
Thursday
Iain Duncan Smith’s speech on welfare reform – full text
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The Work and Pensions Secretary was speaking to the Centre for Social Justice this morning. Introduction It is a pleasure to be hosted today by the Centre for Social Justice – setting out a vision for Britain’s welfare state alongside the organisation where, in a sense, it all started. Within their critique, the CSJ set
Friday
Ed Miliband’s ‘One Nation Economy’ speech: full text and audio
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listen to ‘Ed Miliband’s ‘One Nation Economy’ banking reform speech’ on Audioboo Today I want to tell you what the next election is about for Labour. It is about those families who work all the hours that God sends and don’t feel they get anything back. It is about the people who go to bed
Thursday
Commute
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‘He commutes so often that now he can’t read a book any other way’
Autobiography
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‘It’s always about you, isn’t it?’
Mrbond
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‘Ah Mr Bond, we’ve been expecting you’
Heaven
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‘Oh, nothing’s wrong — I just thought there would be a few more people up here.’
Date
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‘This machine measures my stress levels. If at any point this red light comes on the date is over.’
Flash
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Bottles
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‘The post’s arrived.’
Awesome
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Married
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‘You can always tell the married ones.’
Men
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Recession 2
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‘Here’s to us — we survived our first recession.’
Production
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‘The big challenge in production-line work is to avoid peaking too soon.’
Bankers 2
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‘I’ve switched bankers — this is George.’
Tagging 2
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‘Am I right in thinking that this is the first time you’ve done tagging, Gary?’
Sherlock
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‘Watson, this looks to me like a three e-pipe problem.’
Hollande
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‘I’d rather be at the Elysée Palace.’
Army
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