Beach 2
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‘I know you wanted to find a quiet part of the beach but we’ve walked too far now.’
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Thursday
Tesco
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Skeleton 2
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‘I hope you haven’t got any skeletons in your YouTube...’
Love 2
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Eating 3
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Hedge
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Outcasts
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‘Apparently some of our pupils were born in wedlock. We must do all we can to ensure they’re not treated as outcasts.’
Boxset
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Pandora’s box sets
Cyberbully
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‘It was much more fun sticking someone’s head down the toilet.’
Dove
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‘…over, the white cliffs of Dover…’
Humpty 2
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Vicar 4
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‘How embarrassing… nobody said it was a black-tie do.’
Charity 2
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‘Why do we spend so much on foreign aid when we could be giving it to charity bosses?’
This is no way to run a railway
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We would not want to return to the days when the transport secretary was actively engaged in the running of the railways, down to what the last wheel-tapper was paid. Nevertheless, Patrick McLoughlin’s answer when invited to condemn the £5 million bonuses which could be on offer to Network Rail directors over the next three
Letters: James Whitaker’s widow answers Toby Young
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Absent friends Sir: Alec Marsh (‘Welcome to Big Venice’, 10 August) accurately observes that Londoners are priced out of central London by largely foreign buyers of second homes. Wealthy foreigners not only buy, they also rent, often living in London for a few years, during which they frequently return to their first home for weeks
Portrait of the week | 15 August 2013
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Home The population of the United Kingdom rose by 420,000, to 63.7 million, by the middle of last year, with the number of births, 813,000 (more than a quarter to mothers born abroad), being the highest since 1972. Thames Water asked the regulator Ofwat to allow it to impose a 12 per cent increase on
Barometer | 15 August 2013
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Ward ceremony There have been 29 health secretaries since 1948. How many have wards that — though not necessarily named after them — bear their surname? NYE BEVAN Hillingdon, Harlow, Ealing, East London, Princess Alexandra, Stepping Hall (Stockport) ENOCH POWELL Lewisham Hospital KENNETH ROBINSON Mile End, Lewes, Chesterfield, St Andrews BARBARA CASTLE Warwick, Royal Berkshire,
Books and Arts – 15 August 2013
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Wednesday
Interns, stop whingeing!
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In this week’s Spectator, Brendan O’Neill turns on unpaid interns who complain about their lot, arguing that they should instead be paying their employers for the opportunity. He attacks the argument that unpaid internships hit working class young people the hardest, when these placements will encourage self-drive, rather than self pity. O’Neill writes: It speaks
Friday
The week in books – Tudors, thinkers, dreamers and boozers
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The book reviews in this week’s issue of the Spectator is worth the cover price. Here is a selection of quotes from some of them. The historian Anne Somerset enjoys Leanda de Lisle’s ‘different perspective’ on the Tudor dynasty. She reminds us that these self-invented parvenus had ‘vile and barbarous’ origins. ‘When Henry VII’s surviving
