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Issue 1427
“Typical Friday night rugby in Cardiff. Except it’s Saturday”
JOHN BEATTIE
BBC2

“That’s eight penalties in 24 minutes, then – even I can do the maths – three a minute”
EDDIE HEMMINGS
Sky Sports

“So do you find that pornography fills a hole in your life?”
EDDIE MAIR
Radio 4

“We didn’t not unexpect an early attack”
PHIL LIGGETT
ITV4

“Mick’s come in... he’s taken to water like a duck’s back”
JAKE LIVERMORE
TalkSport

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In This Issue

Trump congratulates the leader of pneumonia… Hiddleswift ‘no longer an item’… ‘Fat-astic Mr Fox charms no one’...‘I am genuinely sorry’ says Vaz… Yet another triumph for post-Brexit Britain… Reading about statins ‘is safe’… Mr Bumble ‘to overhaul workhouse’… Trial of the century: was Radio 4 guilty?

And also...

- Special cases: The operations that Westminster ignores
- Brexit fever: How the Express is reveling in its latest obsession
- PLUS: Labour’s conference clash; Sparky on a gas crisis; cartoons galore & more

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