Bed 2
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‘Jennie, will you please stop comparing me to your first husband?’
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Thursday
Bar 2
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‘Can you leave, please, sir. This bar specifically caters for the sad, pathetic and lonely.’
Newsreader
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‘Sorry, love, but your looks have begun to fade.’
Bill
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Bill Badger’s running for his life, What’s the reason for this strife? They think his cough is dread TB, And so from Nutwood he must flee.
Support
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Hibernate
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‘Watch this one — he likes to hibernate around.’
Kennedy
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How to film a Kennedy 50th anniversary documentary
Tat
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Alice in Winter Wonderland
Horsemeat
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‘What’s the “Steak à la Princess Royal”?’
Emergency 3
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‘You’ll either be seen by Dr Jekyll or Mr Hyde.’
Etonian
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‘Do we have to have an Old Etonian in charge?’
Marathon
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‘News from Marathon. But first, a look at some of today’s other top stories.’
Tiger 2
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‘Looks like the tiger came to tea.’
Ethical
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‘Relax — it’s ethically sourced.’
Letters | 21 November 2013
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No middle way Sir: Ask not whether Iran wants to negotiate with us; ask whether we want to negotiate with them (‘Diplomatic meltdown’, 16 November). Now that Syria has agreed to get rid of its chemical weapons, an opportunity has arisen to achieve a WMD-free Middle East. Iran would be the first to agree, given
Barometer: How many of today’s Ukippers voted Tory in 2010?
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Brave new words ‘Selfie’ was declared to be Oxford Dictionaries’ ‘word of the year’. It hasn’t, however, yet been added to the Oxford English Dictionary. These are some of the words which have been added over the past year (and which have been around a surprisingly long time): Bag woman, n; Campsite, n; Grey zone, n;
Alex Salmond’s economic policies would drive an independent Scotland into the ground
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Within the white paper on economic policy in an independent Scotland that was published by Alex Salmond’s government this week there is a liberal economic manifesto trying to get out. The First Minister speaks about using new ‘levers and instruments’ to revive Scotland and that, freed from Westminster control, he might lure businesses by slashing
Portrait of the week | 21 November 2013
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Home The government announced proposals for the National Health Service, including a law to criminalise wilful neglect by doctors and nurses, and a scheme to post online the numbers of nurses on wards. By the end of October, 219 households had seen work completed to insulate their houses under the government’s Green Deal, launched last
Books and Arts – 21 November 2013
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Is addiction a disease?
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Tonight, the Spectator will host a debate on the motion: ‘Addiction is not a disease’. Damian Thompson, Theodore Dalrymple and Dr Aric Sigman will lock horns with Trinny Woodall, Dominic Ruffy and Vic Watts to decide whether addiction is a medical condition or a pattern of immoderate behaviour. The extraordinary story of Reverend Flowers is likely
