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Pit your wits

The Times
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Sir, Patrick Kidd’s political sketch (Mar 9) brought to mind another person who was adept at avoiding difficult questions: Arthur Scargill. His favourite tactic was to say, “That is not the question, the question is . . .”, then restate his side of the argument.

Chris Brockman

Crowthorne, Berks