Conferences
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‘If any party really cared about what the people want, they would stop these being on all day!’
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Thursday
Discipline
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‘Gosh, that is a very old-fashioned form of discipline.’
Iphone
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‘Hi. According to iPhone Maps, I’m on the train.’
Doge
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One man and his Doge.
Charmer
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‘You’ve got reptile dysfunction.’
Armchair
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‘The Money Podcast: How to Get Rich from your Armchair! Step one: sell the armchair.’
Bargains
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Examined
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‘The examined life is not worth living.’
Barometer | 27 September 2012
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Proud to be plebs Chief Whip Andrew Mitchell denied calling policemen in Downing Street ‘plebs’. The term has its origins in ancient Rome but was also used as a badge of pride by members of the workers’ education movement in the early 20th century. — The League of the Plebs grew out of a power
Letters | 27 September 2012
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Bureaucratic excesses Sir: Your otherwise excellent leader on the billions wasted by Department for International Development (22 September) fails to mention the duplication and excesses in the department and its parent Foreign and Commonwealth Office. Around the world there are only three classes of country: those whose money we want, those who need our money
Israel alone
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This week, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad again attended the United Nations in New York. Again, his visit was laced with controversy. He denounced the state of Israel as a ‘fake regime’, claimed that a threat of an Israeli strike on Iran’s facilities was ‘bluffing’, yet warned of Iranian retaliation should Israel carry out such a strike. Israel
Portrait of the week | 27 September 2012
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Home The European Court of Human Rights approved the extradition of Abu Hamza al-Masri, Babar Ahmad, Syed Talha Ahsan, Adel Abdul Bary and Khaled al-Fawwaz to the United States, where they are wanted on suspicion of terrorism. The BBC then had to write to the Queen to apologise for Frank Gardner, its security correspondent, reporting
Books and Arts – 27 September 2012
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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!’