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Tarzan of the vapes

Tarzan

6 September 2014 9:00 am

‘Karl isn’t himself today.’

Karl

6 September 2014 9:00 am

‘Gentlemen, shall we join the lardies?’

Food

6 September 2014 9:00 am

‘You’ll have to excuse Meridith, he was raised by wolves.’

Wolves

6 September 2014 9:00 am

‘I’m stuffed.’

Bears

6 September 2014 9:00 am

Who will be held to account for the horror in Rotherham?

30 August 2014 9:00 am

If Rotherham council were a family, its children would have been removed by social services long ago, and Ma and…

Portrait of the week

30 August 2014 9:00 am

Home Theresa May, the Home Secretary, said that Britons who went to Syria or Iraq to fight could be stripped…

Six rivals for the name Isis

30 August 2014 9:00 am

Not in their name The BBC decided to start calling the Islamic terror group Isis by the acronym IS instead.…

From the archives

30 August 2014 9:00 am

From ‘Left behind’, The Spectator, 29 August 1914: In the poorer streets a kind of holiday atmosphere prevails, and a sort…

Books and arts

30 August 2014 9:00 am

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Rennard

30 August 2014 9:00 am

‘I’ll watch Doctor Who, but when the news comes on I’m off behind the sofa.’

Who

30 August 2014 9:00 am

Immigrants

30 August 2014 9:00 am

‘I’ve called this meeting to shout at you all…’

Shout

30 August 2014 9:00 am

‘It’s the new Yamaha, old boy! The Minute Waltz… 53 point two dead!’

Yamaha

30 August 2014 9:00 am

Recording

30 August 2014 9:00 am

Ice

30 August 2014 9:00 am

‘I suppose with the rate technology’s changing these days they’ll look back on us and think we were primitive.’

Cave

30 August 2014 9:00 am

‘Turns out they provide water to the local community. They don’t know anything about interrogation techniques.’

Waterboard

30 August 2014 9:00 am

Godfellas

Godfellas

30 August 2014 9:00 am

‘And what girl’s name will it be today, Señor Don Juan?’

Tattoo

30 August 2014 9:00 am

Missing

30 August 2014 9:00 am

‘Sorry, I seem to have rubbed you up the wrong way.’

Lamp

30 August 2014 9:00 am

‘It’s another disproportionate Israeli response.’

Goliath

30 August 2014 9:00 am

Asylum seekers are dying in British ports. It’s time we looked after them properly.

23 August 2014 9:00 am

The tale is now familiar: shouts are heard from inside a freight container and police are called. A cargo of…