Books and Arts – 27 September 2012
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The Spectator
Thursday
Wednesday
Sales
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‘Remember when there used to be days, weeks when everything was full price…’
Punk
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Cards
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‘Could I give you one of my “How to understand computers” business cards, Miss?’
Lunch
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‘Do you do a property developer’s lunch?
Kindle
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‘Take this Kindle in your right hand…’
Hmv
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Rubbish
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‘I’m not underperforming! I really am this rubbish!’
Skeleton
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Knights
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Knife
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‘You can see he’s had a deprived childhood. Just look at the way he holds his knife.’
Idol
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Hunt
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‘Is this your first drag hunt, Sir Patrick?’
Corset
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‘It all started when he was advised by the doctor to wear a corset to relieve his chronic back pain.’
Camera
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Shrink
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‘I have a problem with fidelity, according to all my other shrinks.’
Letters | 19 September 2012
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Criminals on the net Sir: Nick Cohen (‘Nowhere to hide’, 15 September) raises interesting points about the double-edged nature of the internet. The web has brought us massive communications benefits. However it also affords criminals the same. It is this that concerns me, rather than Mr Cohen’s claim that it will allow, through our Communications
Whitehall’s billions
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Two weeks ago Justine Greening was demoted for the offence of sticking to the Conservative manifesto on which she was elected and refusing to back down over the proposal for a third runway at Heathrow. This week she has shown that she is far from being demoralised by the experience; in fact, it might turn out
Portrait of the week | 19 September 2012
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Home The government gave a commercial company, Capita, a contract to find and remove more than 150,000 migrants who have overstayed their visas. A French court prohibited a magazine from republishing pictures of the Duchess of Cambridge topless, or distributing them. After appearing in the French magazine, the pictures had been printed in the Irish
Barometer | 19 September 2012
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Turning Bac Michael Gove has called his replacement for GCSE the ‘English Baccalaureate’. But the Baccalaureate’s origins are at odds with some of Mr Gove’s views on education. — The philosophy behind the International Baccalaureate (IB) was laid out in a booklet entitled Techniques d’education pour la paix: existent elles? written for Unesco by Marie