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Without authorization, I'm awarding you the (unofficial) Daniel Patrick Moynihan award for this article.

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That is high praise indeed. Moynihan was a highly perceptive scholar and statesman, but despite his gifts he took the trouble to really understand the problems of the poor. Years ago, he was also a friend of my parents in London. I am told he bounced me on his knee.

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Indeed he was. I recall that he rather gracefully disagreed with members of both parties on established bipolar (pun intended) political positions with real knowledge and clear reasoning.

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Hear hear. Mr Baskerville is invariably right on the money.

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Isn't this the very definition of dystopia? "Did I really see what my lying eyes told me? The 2020 election was stolen and the 2022 partly as well? Did 6 million really die from Covid when hospitals get paid for saying they did? And what should I call my Substack, "Fish out of the water?" "Rantings of an idiot?" There is already a Michael Smith so I can't use my name, maybe Mike Smith...

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