Nice
‘All I’m saying is that despite going to Eton, working in the oil industry and being a Christian he may turn out to be quite a nice person.’
The Spectator
Thursday
Drone
‘It followed me all the way home — can I keep it?’
Bbc 3
‘It had to happen — statutory regulation!’
Dress
‘It’s too tight, too short and too expensive — I’ll take it.’
Island 3
‘Isn’t it green bin day?’
Austerity
‘It’s bread and water — I’m on an austerity binge.’
Skyfall 2
Dasboot
Derren
‘I can’t believe we’re watching this. It seems he really can make people do things against their will.’
Batphone
‘He’s really disappointed there isn’t a Batphone.’
Investigation
Lawsuit
‘Your very own lawsuit from Lord McAlpine! Receive it in the post in time for Christmas!’
Mousetrap
Emails
‘How come you never send me 30,000 emails?’
Letters | 22 November 2012
For and against Petraeus Sir: The attack on General David Petraeus (17 November) by Kelley Beaucar Vlahos of Antiwar.com was mean-minded, trivial and wrong. After the overthrow of Saddam in 2003, Petraeus garrisoned Northern Iraq, where his determination to improve services as well as security diminished resistance to the US-led occupation. In 2007, Iraq was
Barometer | 22 November 2012
Stage and screen Agatha Christie’s play The Mousetrap has notched up its 60th anniversary and its 25,000th performance, by far the longest run of a stage show. Yet for all its longevity, relatively few people have seen it compared with some television dramas. — The Mousetrap played at the 440-seat New Ambassadors Theatre until 1974.
Hold Brussels to account
After four years of economic crisis some kind of normality has at last been restored to European politics. The EU is at loggerheads with Britain again. After a prolonged period in which it seemed as if the EU would tear apart, its indebted southern members cast adrift from its more solvent northern members, it is
Portrait of the Week – 22 November 2012
Home The General Synod of the Church of England voted against the ordination of women bishops. The measure required a two thirds majority in each house of the Synod, but the voting was 44 for and three against with two abstentions in the House of Bishops, 148 for and 45 against in the House of
Books and Arts – 22 November 2012
