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The great bee-smuggling scandal

13 July 2024

9:00 AM

13 July 2024

9:00 AM

The principal concerns of the electors vary rather more widely than the pollsters and pundits would suggest. One man in Guisborough – probably middle-aged, short of teeth, a little unkempt – suggested to me that the government needed to clamp down on foreigners importing bees into the country. This was being done covertly, he said.

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