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Attila the Stockbroker Diary: April 19, 2024
Suddenly pressed into international diplomacy, the bard brings the crumhorn of peace to North Korea
ATTILA

NK DONS! 

I’m 66. I’ve been Attila for 44 years. And the wonderful thing is that the kind of utterly bonkers stories documented extensively in my 2015 autobiography Arguments Yard are still happening to me after all this time. The latest one can finally be revealed. 

Last year I came home from the pub to the kind of email one doesn’t get every day. 

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