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‘I’m a bit disappointed by the afterlife, me.’
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‘A bag of pound coins, you say?’
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‘Drug squad! Open up!’
‘Oh no – your civil partner and my ex-husband!’
‘Nobby, Yuppy, Greedy, Thrifty, Crafty, Yobby and Needy.’
‘A state of true harmony can only be achieved when all Hugh Grant’s needs are satisfied.’
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Soon after Margaret Thatcher was elected leader of the Conservative party she came for lunch at The Spectator and our then proprietor, Henry Keswick, wanted to offer his congratulations — and his advice. It was time to crush the trades unions, he told her. ‘Mr Keswick,’ she replied. ‘You have spent the past 14 years
