Fuel 2
‘If his winter fuel charges have gone up, I’m changing our energy supplier.’
The Spectator
Thursday
Faithful
‘We shall now sing O Come All Ye Faithful, stressing the word “all” in a sarcastic manner.’
Cold
‘Oh, you poor things! Quick, come into the cold…’
Trumpet
Pump
‘A stomach pump! Just what I wanted!’
Misery
‘What do you want to watch? Fatal Attraction or Misery?’
Haggis
Bubblewrap
‘Plenty of bubble-wrap, elves. People love to pop it…’
Ukip 4
‘Brussels?’
Satnav 4
Argument
‘As you have no close family who’ll be visiting this Christmas, we’ve come to offer you a huge, acrimonious argument if you’d like one.’
Wise
Body
‘You have the body of a teenager — your liver’s shot, and you have a couple of sexually transmitted infections.’
Shepherds
‘It’s a repeat of what we watched last Christmas.’
Cash 2
Tree 2
‘Show it an increased fuel bill and it drops all the green stuff.’
Twurkey
‘Oh no! It’s a twurkey.’
Letters: Jeff Jarvis defends internet companies, Royal Society fellows defend Lord Lawson
A net gain Sir: Jamie Bartlett tries to balance plus and minus, and ends with zero (‘Little Brothers are watching you’, 7 December). But I wonder: why lead with the negative? Yes, data can be misused, marketers and government can misbehave (no — they will). But what are we to do? Block progress? Why don’t
Barometer | 12 December 2013
Whose year is it anyway? Some things which 2014 has been declared to be the year of: — Year of the Horse (China) — International Year of Family Farming (World Rural Forum) — Year of the Brain (European Brain Council) — Year of the Salamander (Partners in Amphibian and Reptile Conservation) — Year of Crystallography
What happened in 2013, from Depardieu's hug to Sachin's last bow
January David Cameron, the Prime Minister, said he wanted to ‘negotiate a new settlement with our European partners’, and that before the end of 2017 would ‘give the British people a referendum with a very simple in or out choice’. Gérard Depardieu hugged President Vladimir Putin at the Black Sea resort of Sochi as he
