Ah, Facebook… No sooner do I announce that I’m off to Cyprus than this harsh but fair note appears:
I look forward to you being kidnapped by Turkish Cypriot terrorists, and the video clips of Massie after 50 days in a makeshift prison cell. And all his mates saying “He looks better than he usually does, doesn’t he?”

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