(1) If the axeman cometh, then he does so with a cheery smile and a glint in his eye, a man who once said his favourite Star Trek character was The Borg, “an alien species which is very similar to the Whips’ office … a collective consciousness dedicated to the eradication of all other species”.
(2) Clearly George Osborne and others needs to end their love affair with shale gas, diesel farms and trying to expand airport runways.” Jeremy Leggett, the founder of world leading renewable energy company Solarcentury, spelled out the challenge for Rudd and George Osborne, the latter being seen as the real axeman of green policies.
(3) Asked how he was feeling earlier this month, he replied: "Well, the axeman cometh."
(4) A day ago Osborne was the mad axeman, today he’s the tooth fairy.
(5) David Laws, the millionaire axeman from the Liberal Democrats , is a cat who walks alone, according to colleagues.
(6) Ray Celestin took the CWA John Creasey (New Blood) Dagger for his debut, The Axeman’s Jazz , set in a 1919 New Orleans stalked by a serial killer, while Peter May took the Crime Thriller Book Club best read for Entry Island , in which a murder on an island 850 miles from the Canadian mainland is investigated.
(7) The casual listener could have been forgiven for thinking that the great axeman had decided not to chop anything at all.