The Spectator

An Orpen fest: ‘Self-portrait’, 1917, by William Orpen

Books and Arts

29 March 2014 9:00 am

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‘There’s only one sanction Putin will respond to – we must throw Russia out of the Eurovision Song Contest immediately.’

Eurovision

29 March 2014 9:00 am

Booty

29 March 2014 9:00 am

‘Congratulations! It’s a jobless young person.’

Jobless

29 March 2014 9:00 am

‘Men — they’re all the same.’

Burka

29 March 2014 9:00 am

‘We’ll start with a pub and a bingo hall.’

Osborne

29 March 2014 9:00 am

‘I’m in for assaulting Ant, but it’s a case of mistaken identity — I thought it was Dec.’

Dec

29 March 2014 9:00 am

‘Dad, can I borrow the pension pot for the weekend?’

Pensioner

29 March 2014 9:00 am

‘I’m bravely taking a make-up-free selfie.’

Clowns

29 March 2014 9:00 am

‘Night, night. Sleep tight.’

Tramps

29 March 2014 9:00 am

‘I do wish you wouldn’t look at the outside world — you know it only upsets you.’

Outside

29 March 2014 9:00 am

‘And verily I say to you, go forth and multitask.’

Multitask

29 March 2014 9:00 am

‘It’s Zok here from the “human abduction team”. Do we have disabled access facilities?’

Aliens

29 March 2014 9:00 am

‘Anti-smoking propaganda has really hardened.’

Smoking

29 March 2014 9:00 am

Cable

29 March 2014 9:00 am

‘I make it 8.36.’

Unicorns

29 March 2014 9:00 am

‘Mum, Dad — I’d like you to meet my boyfriend, name withheld for legal reasons’

Boyfriend

29 March 2014 9:00 am

‘I want you to tick all the boxes’

Tick

29 March 2014 9:00 am

Pensions revolution

22 March 2014 9:00 am

It is easy to see why George Osborne seemed so confident ahead of the Budget. His radical reform of the…

Portrait of the week

22 March 2014 9:00 am

Home In the Budget, George Osborne, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, said that the economy was working but the job…

Barometer

22 March 2014 9:00 am

Plane vanished Some other planes, besides Flight MH370, which have disappeared without trace: — A Boeing 727 cargo plane that…

Books and Arts

22 March 2014 9:00 am

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Referendum

22 March 2014 9:00 am

‘Your starter, sir.’

Starter

22 March 2014 9:00 am

War

22 March 2014 9:00 am