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Blame culture

<span style="font-size: 14px;">John McTernan has someone new to heap scorn upon: all of us</span>

6 July 2013

9:00 AM

6 July 2013

9:00 AM

The phone call came out of the blue early one morning last summer following an appearance I’d made the night before on Sky’s The Nation. My advertising friend, to whom I hadn’t spoken for several months, excitedly informed me that my name ‘had come up at a meeting’, and that ‘her boss wondered if I’d like to go grab a beer’.

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