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How James Goldsmith's wisdom on mistresses could revolutionise mobile phones

Like the spork and the sofa bed, the smartphone is still a bad compromise

18 January 2014

9:00 AM

18 January 2014

9:00 AM

I wouldn’t worry much about the future of the British economy. Because I have a simple plan to make the UK the world’s leading exporter of mobile phones. They will be manufactured by a new consortium including Alfred Dunhill, Cordings and Bowers & Wilkins.

The idea came to me when I was watching coverage of the new scandal in France, where a government security officer was photographed at 8 a.m.

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