LETTER: 'Great communicator' fights for sanity and has the Royal Household on toast
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Sir: Apropos current discussions on the rights and wrongs of intruding into the private and public lives of British citizens, it is worth reflecting on the opinion of that great Englishman William Cobbett (1763-1835), who said:
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20 November
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