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March 03, 2008

This is your government boasting...

Charles Moore in The Spectator:

One of the running jokes in Private Eye used to be a list of benefits from some public service or other which included, inexplicably, ‘grapefruit segments’. Last week, the Labour party emailed me ‘Our 50 top achievements since being elected in 1997’. Achievement no. 50 is ‘Free fruit for most four- to six-year-olds at school’.

It's the sheepish "most" that makes it priceless, rescuing it from the usual vacuous banality of government announcements.

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