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Just in case you missed them… | 4 August 2008

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…here are some of the posts made over the weekend on Spectator.co.uk:
   
Daniel Korski says that Britain needs to support a European defence initiative. 

Fraser Nelson points out that curbing drinking by taxing alcopops isn’t as straightforward as it looks, and suggests that Blair should have stopped Brown from getting to No10. 

Peter Hoskin explores the ramifications of the leaked Blair memo, and wonders what the impact of Polly Toynbee’s praise for David Miliband will be. 

And Clive Davis laments the quality of the British Summer.

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