Speech
‘That speech you wrote for me — it really came from my heart.’
The Spectator
Wednesday
Models
‘Well, you should be more specific.’
Satnav
Coalition satnav
Settle
‘So far, I’ve not met anyone I’d want to settle down and get into debt with.’
Savile
‘Now you’re in for it, sonny!’
Zombies
‘Zombies! The worst kind….’
Conference
‘Avoid the city centre — it’s full of politicians.’
Bin
Hair
‘Fifty Shades of Grey...sounds like a bad-hair day.’
Argue
‘In retrospect, I’m glad we decided to argue at home rather than abroad this year.’
Opera
‘Must we go in and see it? Can’t we just stick to telling people we paid £1,000 a ticket?’
Aristocrats
Galleys
‘Just think — this sort of work used to be the exclusive preserve of men!’
Letters | 3 October 2012
On Israel and Iran Sir: Your leading article (‘Israel Alone’, 29 September) implies that there is consensus among Israelis that Iran must be attacked. This is far from the case. There is vigorous internal debate, with opposition MPs, a judge, and senior military and intelligence officials publicly denouncing Netanyahu’s calls for a strike. Padraic Rohan
Portrait of the week | 3 October 2012
Home In a well-received 65-minute speech without notes to the party conference, Ed Miliband, the Labour leader, presented himself as a human being and concluded: ‘This is who I am. This is what I believe. This is my faith.’ Mr Miliband presented Labour as a One Nation party. He also said that if banks do
The Right Revd
It is a good job that the Crown Nominations Commission chooses its two favoured candidates for Archbishop of Canterbury in secret and without the pageantry involved when the cardinals choose a new Pope. Otherwise, there would be some extremely unhappy reporters stationed on a pavement somewhere, waiting in exasperation for a puff of white smoke.
Books and Arts – 3 October 2012
Jeremy Hunt: no promises on the NHS ringfence
In this week’s Spectator James Forsyth interviews new Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt about how he will continue Andrew Lansley’s legacy on NHS reform. He says his ‘burning mission’ is to ‘demonstrate that we have as much to offer the NHS as Labour ever did’. But while Hunt is keen to praise the work of his
Shelf Life: Roger Moore
A few surprising revelations from this week’s esteemed Shelf Lifer, as Roger Moore tells us which literary character he’d sleep with, what he doesn’t like doing in his spare time and who would be his author of choice during a year’s solitary confinement. His new book, Bond on Bond: The Ultimate Book on 50 Years of
Thursday
Portrait
Portrait of the week
