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Rod Liddle

The Nigel Evans case proves that juries are smarter than our liberal elite

Ordinary people still put common sense and fairness ahead of crusading zeal – thank God

19 April 2014

9:00 AM

19 April 2014

9:00 AM

You may remember this little gem of a story from a month or so back. Justifiably worried at the ramping up of rhetoric by western politicians over the crisis in Ukraine, Blackpool ‘beauty technician’ Gemma Worrall took to a social media site to ask the — presumably rhetorical — question: ‘Why is our President Barraco Barner getting involved with Russia, scary.’

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