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Seventy Up (and down) (opens the original)
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Like many people, I have spent more than 60 years following the documentary series that started with 7 Up and continued every seven years thereafter until last night’s final episode of 70 Up.Along with almost 1 million Brits, I am the same age as the ten boys and four girls interviewed in the first episode, broadcast when we were seven years old. I was also at school with, and in the same class as, two of the boys (more on that below), which puts me in a slightly smaller group of perhaps several
The Burnham contradiction (opens the original)
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Yesterday, Andy Burnham was elected, unopposed, as leader of the Labour Party. The announcement, which was widely described in the press as a “coronation”, was immediately followed by a speech from Burnham. So it was tempting to think of it as a King’s speech. But Labour’s new leader is scheduled to meet the real King on Monday, at which point the monarch will put Burnham in his place as Prime Minister.Burham’s speech was full of Hope and Change. He mentioned them nine times each. Strictly speak
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