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The Paddy McGuffin column

IS there any more treacherous month in the calendar than November? The whole thing is a cornucopia of casuistry, chicanery and calumny from start to finish.

Even the weather pretends to be one thing then wildly swings to the opposite extreme in the blink of an eye.

Perhaps inspired by nature’s example, we parasitical humans have elected to cram the four weeks full of every contentious and hypocritical event going.

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