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This unhinged Brexit cabinet just keeps delivering the dodgy goods – no money back, no guarantee

‘Self-evidence’ is a powerful force. Technically, it isn’t absolutely identical to evidence. It’s uncannily similar, yes, but with one minuscule distinction

Matthew Norman
Tuesday 22 October 2019 17:26 BST
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Stephen Barclay: Northern Ireland businesses will have to complete export declaration forms to trade within their own country

Most long-running sitcoms feature a character of such astounding stupidity that the woke viewer is now and again unnerved by a question of taste.

Joey Tribbiani in Friends, The Vicar of Dibley’s Alice Tinker, Andy Dwyer in Parks and Recreation – however hard the writers might to sugar-coat the imbecility with sprinkles of childlike wisdom, at times you wonder about the dividing line between harmless amusement and mocking the afflicted.

This in mind, restraint seems appropriate in the matter of Steve Barclay, the Secretary of State for Maybe One Day Though God Alone Knows How Exiting the European Union (SoSMODTGAKHEEU).

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