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Broken Britain

Broken Britain

So, everything here is tickety-boo right now. Inflation is ‘buoyant’, immigrants are also buoyant—mainly on the English Channel—and farting by cows has been outlawed. I nearly forgot to mention the NHS, but there is simply no time to go into the achievements of this wonderful and unique organisation. Possibly ‘unique’ because nobody else wants one.

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Match Of The Day

Match of the Duds 

Match of the Day (MOTD), that weekly festival of English Premiership football proceeded this weekend without its anker man (‘w’ omitted by our sensitivity reader) Gary Lineker, and he was joined in his absence by two of the Linekerati: Alan Shearer and Ian Wright. Unsurprisingly the viewing figures have skyrocketed, and the BBC might get

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Roald Dahl

The Desecration of Dahl

Like most children of the 1980s, I was introduced to the pleasure of reading primarily by Roald Dahl. That books authored by him have sold 300 million copies worldwide and been translated into 63 languages is a testament to the man’s genius: his wit, his creativity, and perhaps most of all, his profound understanding of

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