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Flat White

Departures all round?

7 November 2020

5:24 PM

7 November 2020

5:24 PM

Shocking Chinese whispers came out yesterday that Vladimir Putin – supreme leader of Russia’s ‘totally not a dictatorship’ dictatorship – is poised to step down from his lifetime role as president. The surprise confused twitter, which treated it as #FakeNews for most of the afternoon when there simply wasn’t enough emotional bandwidth available with the US election dragging into its third day. 

There are fears the 68-year-old ruler really does have Parkinson’s disease, after conspiracy theories about his health circled public appearances.

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