Vote
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The Spectator
Thursday
Mod
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‘It’s not surrender, it’s quantitative appeasing.’
Listen
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Daleks 3
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‘Phwoar! She’s hot.’
Bug
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‘Be careful what you say. I think we’re being monitored.’
Ikea
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‘Look! Ikea do a round one that sits up to 150 knights, good and true.’
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‘Now print your ticket and boarding pass. If you have a 3D printer, print your own aeroplane and don’t bother us again.’
Damascus
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‘That blinding light on the road to Damascus — turns out it was a surface-to-air missile.’
Unemployment
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‘You’re not entited to a sense of entitlement.’
Snowden
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‘Can you keep a secret, Mr Snowden?’
8947601
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‘Some more of that genetically modified spinach, please.’
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‘Just going for a leak.’
End Is Nigh
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‘It’s a really great time to be on the High Street.’
Ecuador
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‘It’s a request for asylum from Charles Saatchi.’
Rap
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‘That noise in your car — it was rap.’
Hmv 3
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Lowry
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Letters: My cuts are real, says Francis Maude
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We’ve only just begun Sir: In Ross Clark’s article ‘Cuts, what cuts?’ (22 June), he suggested that I was boasting about saving the taxpayer £5.5 billion. It’s true: I’m proud of my department’s Efficiency and Reform Group and the work of civil servants across Whitehall who have sliced out wasteful spending. But the figures he
Barometer | 27 June 2013
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Field reports The Glastonbury Festival is once again being held at Michael Eavis’s dairy farm at Pilton, just outside the Somerset town. The venues of some other famous festivals: — Monterey: the festival most associated with the 1967 ‘Summer of Love’ was held at the Monterey County Fairgrounds, previously used for jazz festivals. — Woodstock:
Portrait of the week | 27 June 2013
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Home George Osborne, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, outlined cuts of £11.5 billion from departmental spending for the tax-year beginning in 2015. David Gauke, a Treasury minister, gave a ‘firm commitment’ in a letter to backbenchers to introduce a transferable tax allowance of £750 between spouses and civil partners paying tax at the basic rate. This
