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Cheltenham was the perfect antidote to election politics

23 November 2019

9:00 AM

23 November 2019

9:00 AM

I can only be sorry for the 67,496,581 citizens of the UK who were not at Cheltenham last Saturday. For the 33,591 of us who were there, it could not have been a more heart-warming, thrilling and character-filled way of escaping from the insulting knavery of election politics and the sourness of the weather that it so perfectly reflects.

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