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So parents are ‘arseholes’? Pack it in, Oliver

Read spiked editor Mick Hume's Notebook in The Times (London).

Mick Hume

Mick Hume
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It seems that I am ‘an a***hole, a tosser, an idiot’ – otherwise known as a parent, in loveable Jamie Oliver’s description of those who give their children ‘fizzy drinks’ or ‘bags of crisps’. He might think I am one, but I am certain that Oliver is talking out of his.

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