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Nicholas Soames’s Twitter account is a miracle (and so is his diet)

We must hope that the tweeting – if not the dieting – keeps up

21 May 2016

9:00 AM

21 May 2016

9:00 AM

Miracles are not ceased. A few years ago, a kindly educational therapist took pity on John Prescott and set out to devise a way to reconcile the Mouth of the Humber and his native tongue. He came up with Twitter. That explains the restriction to 140 characters, barely room for Lord Prescott to commit more than three brutal assaults on the English language.

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