The Spectator

‘Sure saves on a wedding photographer.’

Wedding

5 April 2014 9:00 am

‘I feel it only fair to warn you that from this point on your life will change for ever.’

Shoes

5 April 2014 9:00 am

Mp

5 April 2014 9:00 am

The price of weakness

29 March 2014 9:00 am

One cannot legislate for a quiet world. When a former Princeton University college professor was elected president of the United…

Portrait of the week

29 March 2014 9:00 am

Home David Cameron, the Prime Minister, said that inheritance tax ‘shouldn’t be paid by people who’ve worked hard and saved…

Barometer

29 March 2014 9:00 am

Escapology This week marked the 70th anniversary of the Great Escape, when 76 Allied servicemen tunnelled out of Stalag Luft…

Letters

29 March 2014 9:00 am

Why we need a free press Sir: As bereaved parents and (to borrow from some signatories of last week’s advertisement)…

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