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Bulls-eye!

Posted on February 12, 2019 by Simon Campion-Brown in Blogs, Britain, News, Politics // 0 Comments

… and here’s a scribe after my own heart:

Tom Peck, a sketch writer from a newspaper that is not my favourite, scores a direct hit on the Government’s Defence Secretary, as spotted overnight upon the website of – THE INDEPENDENT

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A former lecturer in politics at Keele University, Simon now lives in Oxfordshire. Married with two children, in 2007 he decided to monitor the Westminster village via newspaper and television and has never looked back. More Posts

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