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No, I Don’t Want To Sponsor You

The Metropolitan policeman who spent a week crawling the London Marathon wearing a gorilla costume captured my imagination and my admiration. When he crossed the finish line and beat his chest, I silently cheered. Tom Harrison, who goes by ‘Mr Gorilla’, swapped between crawling on his hands and knees and on his hands and feet

Donald Trump’s tussle with James Comey is about to get very ugly

As awkward silences go, this was a doozy. James Comey, then FBI director, was sitting alone in an excruciatingly uncomfortable dinner with a newly-elected President Trump. The two uniformed Navy stewards serving food and drinks had discreetly withdrawn. ‘I need loyalty, I expect loyalty,’ the President supposedly said, according to Comey’s notes. Comey recalls: ‘I