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Another birthday, another prescription

4 January 2014

9:00 AM

4 January 2014

9:00 AM

The date of this issue of The Spectator is 4 January 2014, which also happens to be my 74th birthday. There is nothing very special about being 74 except that it is the last year in which one can be described as being in one’s ‘early seventies’; for it is the last year in which one is closer to 70 than to 80.

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