Five.

Are we at peak woke yet, Alison?

Four.

There's a sense of frank disarray, isn't there?

Lots of things don't work.

Three.

This is about foreign powers owning British newspapers.

It's not about foreign investors.

And it's also not about deterring foreign

investment into the UK generally either.

I think future historians will in fact date the demise of the United Kingdom to the

introduction on the railway networks of the ghastly announcements. See it, say it, sorted.

One.

We have left off.

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Hello.

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