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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

Give them shelter

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…

Portrait of the Week

23 August 2014 9:00 am

Home David Cameron, the Prime Minister, writing of the Islamic State in northern Iraq, said: ‘If we do not act…

Barometer

23 August 2014 9:00 am

Tough at the top The clocks on Big Ben were cleaned by abseiling window-cleaners. Some other big cleaning/painting jobs: —…

From the archives

23 August 2014 9:00 am

From ‘News of the Week’, The Spectator, 22 August 1914: Pope Pius X died at 20 minutes past one on Thursday…

‘The Story’ by Dan Llywelyn Hall

Books and arts

23 August 2014 9:00 am

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‘Are you going to be much longer, Daddy? I’m trying to get to sleep.’

Bedtime

23 August 2014 9:00 am

‘If you only knew what sacrifices your father is having to make to put you through university.’

Sacrifice

23 August 2014 9:00 am

Witches

23 August 2014 9:00 am

Iraq

23 August 2014 9:00 am

‘Some of us are, quite literally, fat cats.’

Cats

23 August 2014 9:00 am

‘There are a lot of long passages.’

Passages

23 August 2014 9:00 am

Help

23 August 2014 9:00 am

Raid

23 August 2014 9:00 am

Emoticon theatre

Emoticon

23 August 2014 9:00 am

‘Jack Sprat would eat no fat, his wife would eat no lean, no dairy, no wheat, no soya, no non-organic or GM food, no non-sustainable fish, no...’

Jack

23 August 2014 9:00 am

‘Bearing in mind your little boy’s issues with sugary drinks, we recommend you enrol him in the rehab crèche.’

Rehab

23 August 2014 9:00 am

‘Don’t touch me — this isn’t the Seventies.’

Seventies

23 August 2014 9:00 am