Club 2
‘It’s shocking how the Garrick Club treats women. I think I’ll join.’
The Spectator
Thursday
Bonsai 2
Shell
‘You are being held in a queue. Please wait and you will be able to hear the sea shortly.’
Witch 4
Dignitas
‘Do you take party bookings?’
Mod 3
‘The new political will to bomb Syria leaves us with a few minor logistical problems.’
Dishwasher
‘I’ve no idea, I’ve never loaded a dishwasher.’
Expansion
Languages
Battery
‘Mine has a terrible battery life.’
Hymn
‘We’re having to compete with the Tesco superstore.’
Ketamin
‘Is there anyone here selling ketamine?’
Boomerang
Letters | 16 July 2015
Unions led astray Sir: Leo McKinstry’s article on the current problems in the trade unions (‘Counter-strike’, 11 July) brings back unhappy memories of the last time a similar situation arose. This was probably best known for Arthur Scargill’s attempt to use his position as head of the NUM for his own self-aggrandisment. I lived through
Barometer | 16 July 2015
Ties that bind Lewis Hamilton was ejected from the royal box at Wimbledon for not wearing a tie. Some places he would have been welcome: — In 99 out of 100 of the most expensive restaurants surveyed in 2010. — For four evenings a week on a Cunard cruise (he would need a tie after
Portrait of the week | 16 July 2015
Home The government postponed a Commons vote on relaxing the Hunting Act in England and Wales after the Scottish National Party said it would oppose the changes. Scottish police admitted that a crashed car off the M9, reported to them on a Sunday, was not examined until the Wednesday, when one of the two passengers
Gambling on Iran
Iran is, beyond doubt, a sponsor of terrorism and this week it has been made much stronger. It has (again) agreed not to make a nuclear bomb and in return trade sanctions are being dropped — so money will start to flow in once more. We can be sure that the cash will soon find
Books & arts – 16 July 2015
The Spectator at war: Scout’s honour
From ‘Education and Honour’, The Spectator, 17 July 1915: Under a voluntary system—which indeed takes off the lid, as General Baden-Powell would say—service rendered to the country depends entirely upon a man’s own feelings as to what he ought to do. In other words, his service will be in proportion to his recognition of personal
Answering the call of duty
From ‘Education and Honour’, The Spectator, 17 July 1915: The young man who has been to a Public School or to one of the Universities and who remains at home without adequate excuse doing nothing is so rare as to be very conspicuous. In other classes it is otherwise. Among the so-called lowest class men
