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Portrait of the week

12 July 2014 9:00 am

Home Theresa May, the Home Secretary, ordered a review, taking perhaps ten weeks, by Peter Wanless, the head of the…

Barometer

12 July 2014 9:00 am

Public benefit Public sector unions held a strike over pay. How well are public-sector workers paid compared with their counterparts…

Letters

12 July 2014 9:00 am

Real help for those in pain Sir: The fickleness of existence is exemplified by the fact that being Tony Blair’s…

‘A Lady with a Squirrel and a Starling’, c.1526–28, by Hans Holbein the Younger

Books and arts

12 July 2014 9:00 am

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‘What an amazing spectacle! Cyclists not on the pavement!’

Tour

12 July 2014 9:00 am

‘Not another old episode of Jihad’s Army?!’

Tv

12 July 2014 9:00 am

‘Modern audiences don’t just sit and watch — we interact and post live comments.’

Globe

12 July 2014 9:00 am

Cow

12 July 2014 9:00 am

‘I’ll say this for heather, it’s very moorish.’

Pheasants

12 July 2014 9:00 am

‘Does sir dress to the left or to the right?’

Tshirts

12 July 2014 9:00 am

Bins

12 July 2014 9:00 am

‘We have recently changed our intern selection process. Could you now please place the baby rabbit you’re holding on to your heads.’

Intern

12 July 2014 9:00 am

‘Remind me again how poor we want them to be…’

Poverty

12 July 2014 9:00 am

‘Now, where did I put my glasses?’

Glasses

12 July 2014 9:00 am

‘We had to use the naughty step — she maxed out her credit card again.’

Step

12 July 2014 9:00 am

‘An impressive CV and confident interview — all rather let down by your inability to adjust your chair.’

Cv

12 July 2014 9:00 am

Picasso

12 July 2014 9:00 am

Shelfies

Shelfies

12 July 2014 9:00 am

Selfie

12 July 2014 9:00 am

Weight

12 July 2014 9:00 am

‘Thank God, you’re just my wife’s lover. I thought you were the Inland Revenue!’

Cupboard

12 July 2014 9:00 am

Lunch

12 July 2014 9:00 am

‘I was like, yay!’

Speech

12 July 2014 9:00 am

‘The radiator leaks, the gearbox is about to go and the suspension is on its last legs’

Honest

12 July 2014 9:00 am

Let’s stop slavery – again

5 July 2014 9:00 am

Who would have expected to find slavery on the outskirts of Cardiff? Not the locals, who were shocked when police…