Sackcloth and ashes – the new black

Read Mick Hume's columns this week in The Times (London).

Mick Hume

Mick Hume
Columnist

Topics Politics

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Tuesday 24 April

‘As students returned to Virginia Tech yesterday, the college rang a bell for each of the 32 victims of the massacre. But to judge by the discussion of the past week, there is another potential victim for whom the bell could be tolling: freedom.’

Read on…

Friday 27 April

‘Missed your chance to waste a fiver on that must-have eco-accessory, the “I’m not a plastic bag” bag? You can still grab my £5 supermarket carrier bags bearing the hand-felt-tipped legend, “I’m not a plastic Green”… ‘

Read on…

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