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The response to Jade’s death reminded me how puzzled I was by Diana mania

What do those who mourn Jade Goody think they are mourning, asks Rod Liddle. Do they not have their own dead to bury, to grieve over, to remember?

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It suddenly occurred to me that I need to stop dressing like a radical lesbian bag lady if I am going to ingratiate myself with the voters in the constituency in which I am, perhaps unwisely, standing for the SDP. ‘Always look better than them’ is the injunction made by Steve Martin in the underrated

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