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James Delingpole

James Delingpole: In defence of cocaine

If you can handle your drink, why should your self-control desert you with other drugs?

14 December 2013

9:00 AM

14 December 2013

9:00 AM

‘Is anyone here even remotely shocked that Nigella Lawson has done cocaine?’ I asked. Everyone shook their heads. Well of course they did: it was the after-show drinks in the green room at a BBC studio. ‘So why is it being reported in the media as if it were some amazingly big deal?’

No one knew the answer to that one.

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