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It’s so hot that I’m even cross with the evacuees

Rod Liddle finds his intolerance rising with the temperature and asks why the Britons evacuated from Beirut were so ungrateful to those helping them

issue 22 July 2006
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Yo — Reader! How are ya doin’? Hot and bothered, I suspect; sticky and irritable. And no less so for having been addressed in such a manner, or for being reminded that this is how the leader of the free world addresses those who do his bidding, the lickspittle minions who bring him gifts of questionable knitwear at world summit meetings.

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