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The Queen Mother’s tipsy bons mots and other stocking fillers

Quirky subjects also include inaccessible football grounds, the fear of blushing, Count Binface’s manifesto and pigeon cartoons from the New Yorker

The Queen Mother provides many good stories in Gareth Russell’s Do Let’s Have Another Drink. [Getty Images] 
issue 12 November 2022

The standard complaint of anyone doing a Christmas gift books guide is that the books aren’t up to much. I myself may have moaned to this effect in the past. But either they are getting better or my critical faculties are beginning to fail. I think it’s the former, but if I’m wrong don’t be surprised if I’m sucking on milky rusks by this time next year.

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