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BARNEY CALMAN: Our fearful nation needs a new slogan, Boris: Just cheer up and get on with life!

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Queues. Don’t you hate them? I do, possibly because it feels as if I’ve spent much of this year in one. Queues for the supermarket, the bank and the post office – a record one-and-a-half hours the other day. Queues to get into a restaurant, to get your hair cut. Like everyone else, just about … Read more

BARNEY CALMAN: Cystic fibrosis sufferers finally get ‘wonder drug’ after endless talks

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Dare we dream? Amid the flurry of tweets in response to our articles over the past fortnight that predicted the Government would soon strike a deal for a lifesaving cystic fibrosis drug, this simple sentence stood out.  It summed up the hopes – and fears – of thousands of British families blighted by this horrible … Read more