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A DICTIONARY OF CANT

DEVELOP. To build a shopping centre on top of.

LIFE. Life is what you brood about when you are not doing it properly.

PHOTO-OPPORTUNITY. A phe- nomenon wherein fact-finding junior ministers pose uneasily beside inner city underyouths, and grimly handle bags of white powder, or the tools and para- phernalia of crime. Connoisseurs prefer to call the phenomenon 'photo- inevitability'.

Nigel Burke