Fuel 2
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‘If his winter fuel charges have gone up, I’m changing our energy supplier.’
The Spectator
Thursday
Faithful
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‘We shall now sing O Come All Ye Faithful, stressing the word “all” in a sarcastic manner.’
Cold
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‘Oh, you poor things! Quick, come into the cold…’
Trumpet
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Pump
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‘A stomach pump! Just what I wanted!’
Misery
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‘What do you want to watch? Fatal Attraction or Misery?’
Haggis
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Bubblewrap
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‘Plenty of bubble-wrap, elves. People love to pop it…’
Ukip 4
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‘Brussels?’
Satnav 4
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Argument
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‘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
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Body
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‘You have the body of a teenager — your liver’s shot, and you have a couple of sexually transmitted infections.’
Shepherds
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‘It’s a repeat of what we watched last Christmas.’
Cash 2
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Tree 2
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‘Show it an increased fuel bill and it drops all the green stuff.’
Twurkey
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‘Oh no! It’s a twurkey.’
Letters: Jeff Jarvis defends internet companies, Royal Society fellows defend Lord Lawson
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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
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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
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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
