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Given that Letts still thinks Ben Elton is the "spiritual chieftain" of modern comics, you may feel that his finger is so far from the pulse that it's barely worth taking the trouble to argue the point, but after more than 12 years hanging around comedy clubs and the Edinburgh fringe, I found his criticism baffling.
The Payoff, Then the Parting If their bow to pragmatism was troubling, it is hard to argue that it did not pay off.
RBS's troubles have prompted one thinktank to argue that it is time for a radical strategy rethink, after the bank scaled itself down from a global business with operations in more than 50 countries to one with a flag in just 13 and a renewed focus on the UK high street.
At the same time, conservatives, troubled by rising crime, began to argue that parole boards had too much power, which was leading to lenient sentencing decisions.
But I guess I should have expected this; after all, it's also standard to argue that the troubles of the 70s somehow proved that the welfare state is the root of all economic evil, which makes equally little sense.
There are plenty of those: its displacement of perhaps 1m people, for example; and its conniving at heroin production.But China and Russia are likely to argue that Myanmar's troubles are "internal", and that the new resolution would, like so many efforts to change the country, achieve nothing.
ECONOMISTS love to argue.
Hard to argue.
Hard to argue there.
They started to argue.
It became hard to argue.
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