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Farewell, Speccie

After 23 years, The Spectator’s brilliant and much-loved arts editor is leaving

19 July 2014

9:00 AM

19 July 2014

9:00 AM

So we are all going to have to pay for fatties to have stomach bands and bypasses, are we? It may be ‘cost-effective’ to treat the obese before they go on to develop diabetes and other medical problems, but I’m not sure how much sympathy they will get when we already hear about cancer patients having operations delayed and drugs withheld because of stretched NHS budgets.

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