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Calling all cliches: Specific criminal offences
What do we want? More criminal offences! When do we want them? All the time! Continue reading
Calling all cliches: Never the same again
Nothing will ever be the same again. Nothing has ever been the same again. Continue reading
Calling all cliches: Making Britain great again
How long have we been promising ourselves that we can make Britain great again? Continue reading
Calling all cliches: History will judge…
Who knows how history will judge Brexit? These people do… Continue reading
Calling all cliches: The will of the people
Is Brexit the will of the people? John McDonnell, Donald Trump, the Pope and others give their views. Continue reading
Calling all cliches: Costing the country
A guide to the price of everything – from speed bumps to sleep deprivation – and the value of nothing. Continue reading
Calling all cliches: Wrong side of history
It’s difficult to be right about history – as everyone from Sir Walter Scott to Philip Hammond has discovered. Continue reading
Calling all cliches: Naming and shaming
Amber Rudd is the latest home secretary to pledge to name and shame. But who was the first? Continue reading
Calling all cliches: Gonna make you a czar
From happiness and the seaside, to poverty, pubs and toilets, there’s a czar for everything. Continue reading
Calling all cliches: One nation
In tribute to Theresa May, some other one-nation politicians in modern Britain. Continue reading
Culling all cliches: Hard working families
Does a childless prime minister mean the end of families having to work so hard? Continue reading
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