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• Mary Dejevsky: Yes we can! (Slash the budget deficit)
Once you begin to look, the cuts just start rolling in
• Dominic Lawson: Let's stand up for Michael McIntyre
Luvvie-land has long had contempt for bourgeois values
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If it was so enjoyable and so well paid, why did she stop back in 2004?
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