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  1. Blackleaf

    Sorry, sir, we only stock books we agree with

    Bookshops today seem a little reluctant to indulge in breadth of vision. They have become the retail equivalent of virtue-signallers. ‘The only books we will stock are those we agree with’ is the mantra — a terribly stunted disposition, an anti-literary disposition...
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    Egbert and his medieval bling

    A £2million Viking-age hoard of treasure found in a field in Scotland may have belonged to a man named Egbert, scientists have found. Archaeologists inspecting the objects...
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    They once ruled all of Egypt, but the Khush Pharaohs have been overlooked

    When you think of pharaohs, does your mind conjure up Tutankhamun and the Valley of the Kings, Cleopatra and the pyramids of Giza? If so, you need to think again...
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    Bollocks to Bercow!

    Almost literally! The Prime Minister at the Tory Party conference in Manchester today:
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    Welcome to Greater Mexico!

    Has Manchester been taken over by Mexican drugs barons? Or the rulers of Gilead in The Handmaid's Tale? When I saw that banner strung across a bridge, complete with dangling mock corpses, to mark the start of the Tory conference, I thought immediately of the kind of savage, ritual punishment...
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    When Brexit is done, this is the party to vote for

    Rod Liddle says we should vote for his party, the SDP, once Brexit is done... When Brexit is done, this is the party...