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HOW'S this for coincidence? City Spy reported last week how Alun Jones QC told the City's Wheelwrights livery dinner that he had been asked to speak to the Lagos Law Society on "breastfeeding" and it turned out he had misunderstood the brief - he was meant to have addressed his bemused audience on "Press freedom".
A keen-eyed correspondent points out this is remarkably similar to the story told by the late Auberon Waugh in his autobiography Will This Do?See the full content of this document
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published by Century in 1991. Recounted Waugh: "A Senegal invitation came from Private Eye's sister publication in Dakar, Le Politicien. The message came t...
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