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PEOPLE ARE WONDERING why Mr Anthony Barber, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, voted for capital punishment the other day. Ah, but haven't they heard that he used to be a director of British Ropes?
PEOPLE ADMIRE Russell Johnston, the Scottish Liberal MP, for so consistently . wearing his handsome kilt about the House of Commons. He particularly makes a point of wearing it when, in his capacity as a member of that august body, he visits the European parliament in Strasbourg. But he is beginning to wonder if the game is worth the candle. Coming back from Strasbourg the other day he found himself in an airport bus full of women. Each one was wearing trousers. Russell felt distinctive, but in the wrong way.
THE PRIME MINISTER appears to have acquired a couple of new suits, presumably to go with his new boat. They are, as always with Ted, elegant, well cut and smoothly fitting — no mean task for the tailor of a man who doesn't have a good natural figure for clothes. But why, oh why, does our PM have his sleeves pressed, so that a knife edge runs from shoulder to wrist on either side. Do you think he puts his jacket under the mattress at night?
PUZZLE OBSERVED Ian Paisley speaking in the Ulster debate on Monday. He really is losing his fire, that one. None of the holocausts of old were in appearance; the voice was muted; and he was endlessly repetitious. Of cdurse, it's common opinion that Westminster has tamed the blazing doctor — but that much?
Tom Puzzle
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