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Why did Paperchase bow to a few bug-eyed Corbynistas?

25 November 2017

9:00 AM

25 November 2017

9:00 AM

Last Saturday, the high-street chain Paperchase ran a promotion in the Daily Mail offering two free rolls of wrapping paper. Nothing objectionable about that, you might think, even if the design was migraine-inducingly awful. I have lost count of the number of times I have been dragged into this ghastly emporium by my daughter on a weekend in pursuit of some over-priced piece of tat.

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