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Ancient and modern

The ancient Greeks would not have spared Dominic Cummings

6 June 2020

9:00 AM

6 June 2020

9:00 AM

When the PM’s chief adviser, Dominic Cummings, was discovered to have made his fateful journey to Durham during lockdown, there was uproar. Now that Durham police have judged that trip legal, one might have thought the issue would disappear. But as ancient Greeks knew, such hatreds last a long time.

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