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WELL, panto season seems to have started seriously early in the Parliamentary Labour Party this year, with Angela Eagle as Cinderella fleeing the ball at the stroke of midnight and former big pharma lobbyist Owen Smith seemingly seeking to identify as a hybrid of Aladdin and Che Guevara.
Meanwhile the Blairites are trying to cast Corbyn in the role of wicked uncle — it must be the beard.
The latest in a seemingly never-ending series of farcical allegations hurled at the party leader are the bizarre claims of bullying made by that wellknown Labour figure… Conor McGinn. McGinn, and I had to look this up, is a Labour whip — that is, one of those whose job it is to bully, harangue and intimidate MPs into toeing the party line.
When a couple moves in downstairs, gentrification begins with waffles and coffee, and proceeds via horticultural sabotage to legal action
‘Chance encounters are what keep us going,’ says novelist Haruki Murakami. In Amy, a chance encounter gives fresh perspective to memories of angst, hedonism and a charismatic teenage rebel.
