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‘Apart from making a buzzing noise and an inability to find an open window, what else do you do?’

Fly

12 April 2014 9:00 am

‘My door is always open, Tracy. Could you get someone to fix that?’

Door

12 April 2014 9:00 am

Bush

12 April 2014 9:00 am

Easter

12 April 2014 9:00 am

‘I’m afraid you can’t smoke here, sir.’

Kippers

12 April 2014 9:00 am

‘Have we tried turning it off and then on again?’

Gas

12 April 2014 9:00 am

‘Hey — is that your wife in the hotel opposite this hotel?’

Wife

12 April 2014 9:00 am

Pub

12 April 2014 9:00 am

‘There’s a brilliant new section on London’s food banks.’

Food

12 April 2014 9:00 am

‘Why do you say “we’ve got to talk” when what you mean is I’ve got to listen?’

Talk

12 April 2014 9:00 am

‘A spreadsheet on a memory stick would have been fine.’

Spreadsheet

12 April 2014 9:00 am

Spgti

12 April 2014 9:00 am

‘That Shard is a monstrosity, don’t you think?’

Shard

12 April 2014 9:00 am

‘Enough of the jewels, potatoes and tobacco, Sir Walter. Tell me more about e-cigarettes.’

Ecigs

12 April 2014 9:00 am

‘So, where are we off to today?’

Dummies

12 April 2014 9:00 am

‘As we all know, Jeffrey was an alcoholic… erm… sorry… workaholic’

Husband

12 April 2014 9:00 am

François Hollande's France is a preview of Ed Miliband's Britain. And it's terrifying

5 April 2014 9:00 am

François Hollande and Ed Miliband could be political blood brothers. Neither has held down a job outside politics for any…

Portrait of the week

5 April 2014 9:00 am

Home George Osborne, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, made ‘a commitment to fight for full employment in Britain’ and for…

‘St Casilda’, c.1630, by Francisco de Zubarán

Books and Arts

5 April 2014 9:00 am

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‘Cannabis, actually.’

Farmers

5 April 2014 9:00 am

‘We must do lunch some day.’

Cooks

5 April 2014 9:00 am

‘The A stands for appeasement.’

Captain

5 April 2014 9:00 am

‘There’s a copy of Crime and Punishment in the cake.’

Prisoners

5 April 2014 9:00 am

Costa

5 April 2014 9:00 am

‘We were always an odd couple. I’m a man, she’s a woman — it was never going to work.’‘We were always an odd couple. I’m a man, she’s a woman — it was never going to work.’

Bar

5 April 2014 9:00 am