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The dysfunctional and deluded call the ‘shots’
The Paddy McGuffin column

Welcome to what, in years to come, will henceforth be referred to in politics textbooks the world over as peak idiocy.

Seldom in the recent history of humankind has such a confluence of bastardry, sub-Machiavellian mendacity and downright barking-mad behaviour occurred on both sides of the Atlantic simultaneously.

First up we cross the pond to what is rapidly becoming the most interminable election in US history.

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