
Duncan Robinson
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Bagehot columnist and political editor at The Economist. economist.com/topics/bagehot
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04-12-2008 20:58:33
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Gratified to learn from Rolling Stone that Paul Mescal is reading 'John & Paul' in preparation for playing Macca.





A very useful debunking of the 'he who wields the knife never wears the crown' political saying by Daniel Finkelstein this morning. "Harold Wilson wielded the dagger (against Hugh Gaitskell) and still became leader; so (in the most important contradiction of the theory) did




