Books and Arts – 9 May 2013
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The Spectator
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Local elections 2013: in numbers
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335: total councillors lost by the Tories 291: seats gained by Labour 124: losses sustained by the Lib Dems 139: seats gained by UKIP 147 UKIP council seats after today’s results 10 councils lost by the Tories 2 councils gained by Labour 13 councils now in overall control, up 8 17: the largest gain by UKIP in
Local elections 2013: results livefeed
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Thursday
Nurse
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‘I could never be a nurse — I faint at the sight of paperwork.’
Tramps
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‘I’m not coming in tomorrow. I’m going to work from home.’
Outside
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‘Play outside? Where’s the fun in that?
Carousel
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Everest
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‘Climb up to the top of Mount Everest and say that!’
Kelp
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Worms
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‘Oh, no, not worms again.’
Slide
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‘Come on, Williams, another sale and you can have a go too.’
Heels
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Killer heels
Social
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Igloos
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Mortgage
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‘I guarantee we won’t lend you any money.’
Prison 3
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‘If you misbehave you’ll have to watch Ben Elton’s new sitcom.’
Scapegoat
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‘You know, I suspect the government only set up this inquiry to shift the blame from themselves.’
Abu
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‘This is the Department of Abu Qatada.’
Evil
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‘It’s the square root of all evil.’
Letters | 2 May 2013
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Goers and go-getters Sir: In her interesting article on the rising equality in the female world (‘Sex and success, 27 April), Alison Wolf states that A*/top-stream girls stay virgins until 20 ‘because they have more important things on their minds’. I am not sure about this. I certainly remember that this was not the case