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Matthew Parris

The welcome return of the valedictory dispatch

20 August 2015

1:00 PM

20 August 2015

1:00 PM

‘All I ever tried to do was hold a mirror up and show you how beautiful you really are. Shine on, you crazy diamond.’

I have just read one of the finest ambassadors’ ‘valedictory’ dispatches ever composed, except it isn’t one: it had to be posted on the internet, and was, last month.

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