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Lucy Letby: The Moral Case for Capital Punishment 

By all means make the case against capital punishment (it’s a strong one), but ask yourself this: how are you going to feel when Letby decides to gender transition, in order to move to a prison with a bit more of a nightlife? What will your reaction be when the BBC offers her her own podcast, or she lands a 12-part Netflix series and book deal? It hardly bears thinking about, because you can guarantee that someone, somewhere is weighing up precisely that financial opportunity. 

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Gary Lineker

Plug in Your Shredder: There’s a Lineker Memoir on the Way

(Photograph: Liton Ali, CC BY 2.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0>, via Wikimedia Commons) In a brilliantly written piece for spiked, titled ‘Gary Lineker: patron saint of the over-privileged’, the inestimable Julie Burchill skewers His Holiness for his shameless self-promotion and utter lack of self-awareness. When it comes to virtue-signalling, as described previously in these pages, Gary Lineker really is

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