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AGROMENES reads and not because he always agrees with their judgements, but because he knows where these newspapers are coming from. They aren’t owned by rich men seeking to influence UK politics without paying UK taxes and they genuinely care about the marginalised. However, there’s a price to pay. The fashionably woke can be as infuriating as any libertarian lunacy. There’s

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