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MAURICE GLASMAN, the flamboyant Labour peer, was among friends in Glasgow on Monday night, where he was addressing a meeting organised by Radical Options for Scotland and Europe (Rose). 

Life at home in Stoke Newington was, however, a little more testing, he said. 

“I’m an academic, I’m Jewish and I’m from north London. Our social life is effectively over.”

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