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Sunday, 4 January 2015

Westminster Journalist Isabel Hardman on being an MP and the menace of memes - worth a read

http://blogs.spectator.co.uk/coffeehouse/2014/11/the-menace-of-memes-how-pictures-can-paint-a-thousand-lies/
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