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Stephen Pollard

ByStephen Pollard, Stephen Pollard

Opinion

Malign

May 21, 2008 24:00
1 min read

It's an unworthy thought, but the news about Edward Kennedy reminded me of Evelyn Waugh's diary entry on hearing that surgeons had removed a benign tumour from Randolph Churchill:

A typical triumph of modern science to find the only part of Randolph that was not malignant and remove it.