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Drink 5

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‘May cause drowsiness . . . Do not drive or operate heavy machinery. . . Do not take if you have heart or liver problems. . . If concerned, consult your medical practitioner.’

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Great

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‘Your great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great grandfather was at the Somme.’

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Paternity

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‘I’ve told you before, you can’t take paternity leave if your wife’s given birth to another man’s child.’

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Spectator letters: PPE, Biblical bishops and Pamela Hansford Johnson

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Degrees of ability Sir: Nick Cohen has written an amusing piece on PPE (‘Crash course’, 27 September), marred by lazy journalism. I never said that Cameron was ‘my ablest pupil’, an impossible judgment to make. What I said was that he was ‘one of my ablest pupils’. He was also, incidentally, one of the nicest. And I

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Don’t worry Brooks Newmark: paisley was sexy once…

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Paisley power Paisley pyjamas were in the news. While associated with the town in Renfrewshire, whose mills produced the patterns from 1805, what we know as paisley was first popularised in France thanks to its part in the courtship between the power couple of the day: Napoleon and Josephine. — While stationed in Egypt in 1798 he sent her a

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Portrait of the week | 2 October 2014

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Home The Commons, having been specially recalled, passed, by 524 votes to 43, a motion supporting ‘the use of UK air strikes to support Iraqi, including Kurdish, security forces’ efforts against Isil in Iraq’. Only after four days did RAF Tornados from Akrotiri in Cyprus find some targets in Iraq to bomb. In support of