Party 2
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‘We’ve had such fun paying off our children’s and grandchildren’s debts!’
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Thursday
Greece
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Surgeons
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‘All right, all right. Simon says, “Scalpel.”’
Blackboard
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‘Great Scott, Professor Hunt has explained women!’
Rang
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‘You rang, texted, emailed and face-timed, my Lord?
Friends
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‘Have you made any nice friends?’
Jam 3
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Dogs 8
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Names
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‘Our vicar’s a terrible name dropper.’
Relate 5
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The Cloud
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‘Dude, this is better than heaven — it’s the Cloud.’
Cave 5
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‘You say art. I say graffiti.’
Robot 2
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Coffee 2
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‘I’m upper class, but I’m immensely proud of my upper-middle-class roots.’
Newspaper 3
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‘I blame all those puffs of white smoke.’
Letters | 25 June 2015
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Free trade with Africa Sir: Nicholas Farrell suggests that a naval blockade is the only solution to Italy’s immigration crisis (‘The invasion of Italy’, 20 June). Examining the causes of the situation might identify other measures. Since the European Union effectively closed its borders to trade with Africa to protect European farmers from lower food
Barometer | 25 June 2015
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The spirit of 1945 No one would have been more surprised at the sight of 100,000 people marching in London under the banner ‘End Austerity Now’ and demanding ‘Tories Out’ than Sir Stafford Cripps, President of the Board of Trade and briefly Chancellor of the Exchequer in Attlee’s government. — Hard though it might be
Portrait of the week | 25 June 2015
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Home Tens of thousands took part in a demonstration in London against austerity, and thousands more in other cities. Russell Brand was heckled for being too right-wing: ‘Fuck off back to Miliband,’ protestors in Parliament Square cried. David Cameron, the Prime Minister, explaining his thinking on further benefit cuts: ‘There is what I would call
Laying down the law
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A great test of political leadership is how well you deal with vested interests on your own side. In his first speech as Lord Chancellor this week, Michael Gove has shown himself willing to tackle a profession which has long been comfortable with Conservative governments and whose reform, as a consequence, is long overdue. A
Books and arts opener – 25 June 2015
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