Bonfire night: an annual display of pyrotechnical correctness

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

Mick Hume

Mick Hume
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Fireworks! How about watching virtual pyrotechnics on a laptop in your bedroom with the curtains drawn, listening to recorded bangs on your iPod with the volume down and enjoying an organic hot dog labelled ‘This Dog May Be Hot’?

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