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Mind your language

Carnage

26 January 2017

3:00 PM

26 January 2017

3:00 PM

‘This carnage stops here,’ declared the headline in the Daily Telegraph, quoting President Donald Trump’s inauguration speech. My husband tried to make little jokes about it. ‘Would you buy a used carnage from this man?’ was probably the best, by which you can imagine the standard of the others.

I wondered when I first read it what slaughter or butchery Mr Trump was referring to.

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