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News round-up: Chilcot, Blair and Brangelina

Another picture in the frame this week. News of Gordon Brown and his offer to loan Barack Obama the painting that inspired Barry in his youth — Hope by Victorian English artist George Frederic Watts. It would have hung in the Oval Office except it’s indelibly associated with preacher Jeremiah Wright, the man who introduced …

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News round-up: Chilcot, Blair and Brangelina

Another picture in the frame this week. News of Gordon Brown and his offer to loan Barack Obama the painting that inspired Barry in his youth — Hope by Victorian English artist George Frederic Watts. It would have hung in the Oval Office except it’s indelibly associated with preacher Jeremiah Wright, the man who introduced …

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Titanic poem and news round-up

A cursory glance at my blog might give the impression that we’re all going to hell in a handcart (copyright Richard Littlejohn, Jeremy Clarkson, Rod Liddle and other great minds of our times). There’s the screw-up around the Haiti disaster with the race to impose the Shock Doctrine on a traumatised nation and the slo-o-ow …

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Titanic poem and news round-up

A cursory glance at my blog might give the impression that we’re all going to hell in a handcart (copyright Richard Littlejohn, Jeremy Clarkson, Rod Liddle and other great minds of our times). There’s the screw-up around the Haiti disaster with the race to impose the Shock Doctrine on a traumatised nation and the slo-o-ow …

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