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DO our top politicians fear the police like their American counterparts who ran scared of J Edgar Hoover's FBI, which kept copious files on them? The political silence over the police shooting of Brazilian Jean Charles de Menezes is eerie. What's happened to Her Majesty's Opposition? All we've heard from the Tories is on-the-way-out leader Michael Howard's statement on the August 17 Today programme that until the current investigation is complete 'we should all exercise some restraint' Meanwhile, ex-Tory minister Michael Portillo calls for a public inquiry.
THE promised TV 'revelations' about Princess Margaret's love life sound old hat. A lifetime ago, Oxford wit Sir Maurice Bowra wrote: 'Green with lust and sick with shyness/Let me lick your lacquered toes/Gosh, oh gosh Your Royal Highness . . . ' Margaret is thought to have been the unnamed love object about whom John Betjeman (later our poet laureate) wrote: 'The one thing I would really like/To be the saddle of your bike.' Poor Margaret. Small wonder Nigel Dempster's fine biography of her is subtitled A Life Unfulfilled.See the full content of this document
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Ephraim Hardcastle
COMPOSER Andrew Lloyd Webber (pictured) wrote about a restaurant in Deia, Majo...
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