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JUNGLE WATCH

Enter the wry and brilliant barrister who could be just what the Tory party’s spin doctor ordered. Boom! BOOM! BOOM! Remember that bit in Jurassic Park when the T.Rex makes its first appearance as a ripple in a glass of water? This time it’s another big beast who’s on the move, stamping out of the…

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BAD NEWS

The eerie, blurred video images of the hostage Kenneth Bigley, pleading for his life with the odds so stacked against him, are working hard demoralising us in every living room in the land. The poor man may well suspect that he’s an unwitting pawn in someone else’s publicity stunt, but he probably won’t see the…

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Return of the Governor and defence of the soundbite

Go back a few weeks. The polls said the nation suspected the Prime Minister of having deceived its representatives in the House of Commons. The polls said we believed he had deliberately misled us over Iraqi munitions to get some urgency into ‘our’ support for George W. Bush’s Middle Eastern expedition, and get the sacking…

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Tony's week

I am keen to see how our PM, Bad Boy Blair , manages to spin his way out of his European U-turn this week. The last seven days have been bad for Tony, and the forthcoming seven will be full of deliberate distractions to try and outwit the pursuing pack of snarling, political scribblers.