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I am angrier with the government about the smoking ban than the Iraq war

Rod Liddle says that the ban exemplifies all that is wrong with Labour: nannying piety, control freakery and an endless capacity for lies. What’s more, it’s put him to considerable inconvenience

issue 02 February 2008
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