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The Spectator’s Notes | 4 November 2006

‘It’s a milestone round his neck’, I heard a football manager saying on the Today programme.

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‘It’s a milestone round his neck’, I heard a football manager saying on the Today programme.

‘It’s a milestone round his neck’, I heard a football manager saying on the Today programme. It was not what he meant to say, but it seems apposite to my own case, since I am writing this on my 50th birthday.

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Charles Moore
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Charles Moore is a former editor of The Spectator and the Daily Telegraph. He became a non-affiliated peer in July 2020.

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