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Where’s the slogan saying ‘Lose Weight. Stop Boozing. Survive the virus!’?

When apathy is the new normal, this country is in a dangerous place

Lockdown is a licence to get fatter and lazier [Giuseppe Lombardo] 
issue 14 November 2020
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Panic at the country feed store. Panic in the horse and pony aisle. I wonder to myself: could life ever be sane again? With apologies to Morrissey and Marr, I started singing a version of their seminal hit on the way back from getting the horse and dog food and I have been humming it ever since.

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