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Raunchy tale of pedigree chums

“It’s so utterly inconsiderate to orchestrate a drama in January when we are all trying to give up the booze.” (15 January 2019)

“Boris a no show at the Channel 4 debate. In mitigation, it was Father’s Day and he must have had a lot of house calls to make.” (17 June 2019)

Cameron is a liberal wimp, arrogant and entitled in a world of “bruised and competing egos”

attention. Two basics: is it accurate? Does it matter? If accurate, is that a matter of specifics and ambience or just the latter, and, separately, a case only of what is directly recorded or also of what told indirectly? Does it matter is a matter of the constituency: for the commentator of

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