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The Spectator's Notes

The 300-year-old poem that perfectly sums up our drifting government

27 January 2018

9:00 AM

27 January 2018

9:00 AM

‘Dignity lost half its value yesterday’ began a news story in Saturday’s Daily Telegraph. As I read on, it turned out that Dignity is a large firm of undertakers, but I had momentarily taken these opening words as a general statement about our times. As such, they seem well supported by the facts.

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