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For decades, America has dreamed about becoming self-sufficient in terms of energy, and ending its dependence on unsavoury Arab regimes. Now this dream seems within reach. The International Energy Agency this week forecast that America is undergoing a fuel revolution, and that it will overtake Saudi Arabia to become the world’s biggest oil producer by
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A.N.Wilson Sidney Chambers and the Shadow of Death by James Runcie (Bloomsbury, £14.99). At last, an Anglican Father Brown. Runcie has sensibly set his detective stories in the 1950s, before the boring era when DNA and science spoilt the poetry of crime investigation. Canon Chambers, a self-effacing, clever clergyman with a taste for pubs and shove-halfpenny,
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‘I’m not a reaper any more. In the modern NHS, my title is Grim Pathway Co-ordinator.’
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‘OK, Pip and Estella . . . ’
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‘Oh, well, if there aren’t any programmes on about policemen chasing scantily clad, drunken fat girls around the centre of Cardiff, I’m off to bed.’
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‘They say that the crew are all hopeless Tories, doomed to spend eternity wittering on about Europe and limits on abortion.’
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‘Let’s see. Coma. Coma. Coma. Coma. Coma. Chameleon.’
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‘Fruit juice, shaken not stirred . . . ’
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‘My mistake — petting zoo is next door along.’
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‘We have some time to kill.’
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‘We’re going to rush you straight through to intensive neglect.’
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‘I’m undecided which way I would vote in an election — just as I’m undecided whether to let off the thermal nuclear device I’m building in my garage.’
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‘Here endeth the texting’
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‘I’d say it’s Chinese.’
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‘We have very high standards here — all our staff are undercover reporters.’