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Your support makes all the difference.At this festive time of year, the gift's the thing, so here are some last-minute ideas for that certain someone:
Prince Charles: a pair of Camilla Parker Bowles's trousers
Belinda Harley, Prince Charles's assistant: a pair of Prince Charles's trousers
Princess Diana: The Jackie Kennedy How To Re-marry Really Rich Guide
Fergie: Toe Rock
Andrew Neil and Madonna: a Room at the Inn
Verity Lambert: a gold strike in Eldorado
John Birt: a holiday in Eldorado
Dan Quayle: a brain transplant; a sack of potato-s
Boutros Boutros-Ghali: a first name of his own . . . what about Bud?
Robert Maxwell: an invite to Christmas dinner in the Country of the Undead (somewhere near Paraguay), along with Captain Glenn Miller, Amelia Earhart, Adolf Hitler, Jim Morrison and Elvis Presley
Terry Wogan: a radio show
Channel 4: a Big Sick Bag for The Big Breakfast
Nigel Kennedy: better hair
Gerard Depardieu: cleaner hair
Clint Eastwood: an Oscar
Macaulay Culkin, pint-size pouty-lipped star of Home Alone I and II: a slide down a 50ft razor blade into a pool of iodine
Neil Kinnock: a quiz show of his very own
Melvyn Bragg: the entire BBC licence fee
Gerald Ratner: Tiffany's
Spike Lee: a Very Happy Malcolm X-mas
The American Media: their very own beach to invade
Andrew Morton: a sequel
Lady Thatcher: Norma Desmond's house on Sunset Boulevard. (Played by Gloria Swanson in the Billy Wilder movie, Norma lived out her twilight years in the creepy mansion, waiting to make the comeback nobody wanted, attended by her major-domo - Erich von Stroheim - and her young protege - William Holden - later found dead in the swimming pool)
Mikhail Gorbachev: the Von Stroheim part
John Major: the William Holden part
Boris Yeltsin: Mikhail Gorbachev's agent
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