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They're both brilliant writers and both joined the Mail this year, but Boris Johnson and Quentin Letts have something else in common - over the past six months they've helped expand our vocabularies.
During Mr Hancock's six hours at the Covid Inquiry witness table, not a single rude word was said, though a few were implied.
JUST as the tsunami of scurrilous statements, overt lies and crypto-fascist behaviour of former President Trump left most objective observers…
WEDNESDAY December 2 – ‘Yea, Lord, we greet thee, born this happy morning!’ Christmas had come early; our saviour was born, except that he had come to earth as a glass vial stored at -70°C. The high priests of our national religion, ‘our beloved NHS’, had ushered in a new dawn and, singing our songs of praise, we worshipped at the altar of medicine. This obsessive devotion seems to be the accepted norm in the UK, but its dangers and a concomitant unwillingness to deviate from the diktats of the authorities were identified in George Orwell’s prescient novel, Nineteen Eighty-Fou...