Tamzin Lightwater

Diary of a Notting Hill Nobody | 21 October 2006

DD is on a major ‘guns ’n’ ammo’ high

issue 21 October 2006
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DD is on a major ‘guns ’n’ ammo’ high. It was manageable while it was just General Dannatt stuff, but now it’s spread — badly. No one could make sense of his rant about veiled Muslims being the ‘unexploded bombs of modern politics’ until Poppy pointed out that he was, for about three hours, in the bomb disposal unit of the territorial SAS.

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