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James Delingpole

Why tackle someone's argument when you can just pick a word and take offence at it?

It happened to Michael Gove. It's happened to me. I'm starting to wonder if it's the death of debate

6 December 2014

9:00 AM

6 December 2014

9:00 AM

Michael Gove was on BBC Question Time the other night, fielding questions about such contentious subjects as education, immigration and benefits. But when he browsed the internet afterwards to see what, if anything, was exercising the web about his performance, he was surprised to discover that his greatest crime had been an innocuous turn of phrase in response to a jibe from David Dimbleby.

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