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In association in Centrica How can consumers ensure they are receiving the best possible deal for their energy bills? In this special View from 22 podcast, the Spectator’s political editor James Forsyth discusses issues within in the energy market and some potential solutions for getting the lowest possible energy bills. Is shale gas the answer?
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‘A word about desk dining, Jones ...’
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‘Apparently, that is the way the money goes, gentlemen. The weasel has popped!’
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‘You two will have so much to talk about. You’re a debut novelist and Quentin here is a debut book critic.’
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‘More Baroness T, vicar?’
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‘I’m a bit disappointed by the afterlife, me.’
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‘I suggested a “sand castle” but he wanted to make a “sand iPhone”.’
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‘A bag of pound coins, you say?’
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‘Waiter, there’s a greenfly in my soup!’
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‘Drug squad! Open up!’
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‘Oh no – your civil partner and my ex-husband!’
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‘Nobby, Yuppy, Greedy, Thrifty, Crafty, Yobby and Needy.’
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‘A state of true harmony can only be achieved when all Hugh Grant’s needs are satisfied.’
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Health tourists must pay Sir: The extent of the use made by non-entitled patients from abroad (‘International Health Service’, 6 April) should come as no surprise. This increasing stream of information demonstrating the volume and variation will cause even louder gasps and shock. The NHS is the standard-bearer of the politics of equality and, like
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Soon after Margaret Thatcher was elected leader of the Conservative party she came for lunch at The Spectator and our then proprietor, Henry Keswick, wanted to offer his congratulations — and his advice. It was time to crush the trades unions, he told her. ‘Mr Keswick,’ she replied. ‘You have spent the past 14 years