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There seems to be a sort of end-of-term mania sweeping the country this week, says Paddy Mcguffin

There seems to be a sort of end-of-term mania sweeping the country this week. From peers to politicians to pastors they've all been at it.

Christmas is of course a time when we look back and reflect on what has gone before, so here goes.

We've had bent lords a-leeching, vain MPs chiselling, late greaseballs preying, serving coppers lying, sacked Serco whining, live spooks a spying, more fawning berks, three dense Lib Dems, a slew of Tory twerps and apartheid deniers on the TV.

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