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Ancient and modern

Alex Salmond’s fishing

8 September 2018

9:00 AM

8 September 2018

9:00 AM

The ex-leader of the SNP, Alex ‘Five Pensions’ Salmond, has scrounged nearly £100,000 from the people to help him in an impending legal case. How shameless can you get?

In the ancient world, it was commonplace for the wealthy to massage their reputations by magnanimous public gestures — providing the cash to build a library or a school, for example.

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