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Mr Brock in Basra…

Quote of the day, courtesy of a British army spokesman in Basra:

“We can categorically state that we have not released man-easting badgers into the area.”

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Why Putin’s elites keep dying

Although I suspect few readers’ hearts will bleed for them, it’s been a bad week for Russian elites. There has been a spate of real or apparent suicides and the arrest of a gold magnate as he prepared to leave the country. On Friday, Andrei Badalov, vice president of Transneft, Russia’s largest state-controlled pipeline transport

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