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Richard Laidlaw on things that interest, engage and enrage

Satire

  • Junk Mail is Fun

    We don’t have a No Junk Mail Please sign on our mailbox. They don’t work anyway, plus if they did you’d forever be short of paper to wrap potato peelings in, or the remains of the ready-roasted chicken you sometimes allow yourself as a treat. Moreover, a lot of junk mail is more interesting than Continue reading

  • Let Him Eat Cake

    RICHARD LAIDLAW Book Review   IT must be very difficult being a political satirist these days. So many politicians, to a man and woman, get underfoot with plots that would outdo a Goon Show episode and leave their writers wringing their hands in frustration: Why couldn’t we think of that? So we owe a deep Continue reading

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