Fight 2
‘Are you sure you want to join the Labour party?’
The Spectator
Thursday
Bar 5
‘Three units of pinot grigio, Max.’
Graph
‘Giving people money is very popular with people we give money to.’
Lamppost
‘Some embarrassing photos have emerged of us with a peer of the realm.’
Picture
‘He’s the last Frenchman to win the Tour de France — taken from the original Daguerreotype.’
Pass
‘I love the work you pass off as yours.’
Dad 2
‘Dad, Dad — I’m homophobic.’
Owner
‘I don’t get it — my owner can’t get enough of that stuff either.’
God 5
‘God wears a Rolex!’
Dogs 9
‘I can understand why Speaker Bercow doesn’t like walking — he’s only got little legs’
Campaigners
Rain
‘Ne’er cast a clout till July be out….’
Lord 2
Letters | 30 July 2015
What we’re building Sir: I was surprised and frustrated to read Ross Clark’s piece on housing associations in last week’s edition of your magazine (‘Stop moaning, start building’, 25 July). Surprised because it seemed to misrepresent the facts concerning housing associations, and frustrated because the analysis offered by Mr Clark ignores the key role that
Barometer | 30 July 2015
Safe house Lord Sewel is unique in leaving the House of Lords in disgrace. Until the House of Lords Reform Act 2014, only a treason conviction earned you expulsion from the House of Lords, and that only since 1870. At least two peers have been executed for treason, Simon Fraser, 11th Lord Lovat, and William
Portrait of the week | 30 July 2015
Home A man died when 1,500 migrants tried to enter the Channel Tunnel terminal in Calais in one night. The night before, 2,000 had tried. Theresa May, the Home Secretary, spoke of spending money on fences. The Foreign Office warned travellers to the Continent via Calais that they should be prepared to return by a
House in order
The shaming of Lord Sewel was a classic tabloid exposé. The fact that a peer of the realm (albeit one appointed by Tony Blair) was caught on camera apparently ingesting Class A drugs in the company of prostitutes is a good enough story in itself. The fact that the peer in question was chairman of
The Spectator at war: Time for change
From ‘The Problem of Public Assistance’, The Spectator, 31 July 1915: In one respect big reforms are actually easier in times of national emergency than in times of peace, for the collective purpose of the nation is in the crisis of a great war more firmly set, and therefore better able to overcome sectional and
Out of service
From ‘The new standard’, The Spectator, 24 July 1915: If a change must be made at all, it is worthwhile to make a great change, to put right our mistakes, to get any happiness that a rearrangement can give us. We fear that at first a new way of life may come rather hard upon the
Wednesday
The Spectator at war: The new standard
From ‘The New Standard‘, The Spectator, 31 July 1915: Where food and service are concerned we believe there are a fair number of people who will be glad of some necessity which shall compel them to lead a simpler life. It is not that they do not enjoy their fine food and the ease which comes
