
What are we to make of the disquieting information that Ehud Barak’s favoured pastime, when not waging war, politicking or dressing as a woman, is the dismantling and reassembling of clocks?
‘That’s really creepy,’ I said to the wife, when somebody on Newsnight mentioned it while we were watching it in bed.

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