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Coffee Shots: Pimp my Ukip conference

As the devoted Ukip followers arrive at this weekend’s party spring conference in Margate, they can now show their support in a variety of ways.

Rather than a basic rosette, Ukip HQ are also selling branded jewellery. Surely the perfect gift for that special lady in your life?

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In 1997 in Hong Kong one of Mao Zedong’s numerous sexual partners — in this case an underage one — told me her life story. Mao the monster was already notorious: his lunatic policies had caused the world’s worst famine (1959–1961), in which 40 to 50 million Chinese starved to death; he inspired the Cultural

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