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Shared Opinion | 21 March 2009

Why would Brown want to look like a tax-grasper and a twitchy hypocrite, too?

issue 21 March 2009

Sir Liam Donaldson, Gordon Brown and booze prices. How did that all happen, then? I could find out, probably, but only by asking one of those proper political journalists, you know the ones, who wear shiny suits and mysterious plastic passes, and use the word ‘lobby’ in myriad, self-satisfied ways, as though it were a weapon.

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