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Penning Poison

Who among us wasn’t morbidly fascinated by the anonymous email sent the day before to all the guests attending George Osborne and Thea Rogers’ wedding? Some of us might even have gone to the trouble of finding the epistle online, and relished the allegations of sexual intrigue and passions that read like a potted bonkbuster.

In the age of the internet, with its immediacy and lack of

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