Christopher Howse

The Spectator’s Christmas Quiz

Test your wits against Christopher Howse. With illustrations by Castro

issue 14 December 2013

Says who?

In 2013, who said:
1. ‘To me it’s not a marriage, it is, if you like, a Ronseal deal.’
2. ‘Marriage is abolished, redefined and recreated, being different and unequal for different categories.’
3. ‘It is the Conservatives who have decided to completely reinvent the wheel and tie the country up in knots.’
4. ‘If there’s people trying to do bad stuff to our guys, then we’ll take them out of the game.’
5. ‘You’re a nasty piece of work, aren’t you?’
6. ‘Send in the clowns.’
7. ‘People who not only kill their enemies, but open up their bodies, eat their entrails in public before the cameras. Are these the people you want to support?’
8. ‘There are large and uninhabited and desolate areas. Certainly in part of the north-east.’
9. ‘Britain can do better’. (17 times)
10. ‘What you gonna do when your ship is sinking, and you’re crying out for help, and just the seagulls listening?’









Creature comforts

CREATURE-COMFORTS
In 2013:
1.

Comments

Join the debate for just $5 for 3 months

Be part of the conversation with other Spectator readers by getting your first three months for $5.

Already a subscriber? Log in