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<a href="http://j-rentoul.livejournal.com/7667.html">John Rentoul: Fake understatement</a>

Thursday 18 December 2008 17:06 GMT
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Matthew Norman deploys the device of pretend understatement to make his judgement sound weighty and considered. But it is still wrong. In his column criticising Gordon Brown for his part in the invasion of Iraq, he says of Iraqi fatalities:

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