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My Brasenose college reunion was great (even if David Cameron didn’t turn up)

Shame, really. He’d have loved the headmaster of Harrow’s jokes

2 May 2015

9:00 AM

2 May 2015

9:00 AM

A couple of weeks ago I returned to my old Oxford college for a ‘gaudy’ — posh, Oxford-speak for a reunion. This one was for those of us who came up to Brasenose in 1983, 1984 and 1985. That group includes the Prime Minister but, not surprisingly, he wasn’t there.

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