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Charles Moore’s Notes: If we want to save the elephant, we must legalise the ivory trade

Plus: Pooteresque Corbyn; Canada and the niqab; Mrs Thatcher, volume two; Michael Heath’s 80 birthday

24 October 2015

9:00 AM

24 October 2015

9:00 AM

How good a deal for Britain is it that the president of China got a state visit and a nuclear power station and Prince William got the chance to go on Chinese television and complain about the ivory trade? The Prince was listened to politely, of course, but the Chinese will not give up their enthusiasm for the stuff.

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