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					<description><![CDATA[Published by UnHerd (16th May, 2018) Few dispute that drugs can damage lives, devastate families and are linked to criminality. All the evidence indicates it is prohibition that [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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					<description><![CDATA[Published by UnHerd (23rd November, 2017) Grahame Morris has been called many things in his political career but he could never be accused of carpetbagging. He was born [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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					<description><![CDATA[Published by The Mail on Sunday (19th November, 2017) A police chief has declared that his force will stop prosecuting all drug addicts, along with ‘low-level’ dealers of [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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					<description><![CDATA[Published by The Mail on Sunday (22nd October, 2017) Shortly after lunchtime, as drizzle fell outside at the start of a week without work, Paddy Colby told his [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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					<description><![CDATA[Published by UnHerd (1st September, 2017) Last weekend I was in Houston when the hurricane hit. The winds smashed into buildings, the rain lashed down. It was an [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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					<description><![CDATA[Published by The Mail on Sunday (13th August, 2017) The black jeep had slammed into a parked saloon in a quiet suburban street, just beside a house having [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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					<description><![CDATA[Published by The Spectator (16th July, 2015) Zero Zero Zero by Roberto Saviano (Allen Lane) &#38; Dreamland: The True Story of America&#8217;s Opiate Epidemic by Sam Quinones (Bloomsbury) [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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