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Christmas diary

15 December 2018

9:00 AM

15 December 2018

9:00 AM

I’m embarrassed. Last night I spoke briefly at a black-tie gala dinner of the Institute of Public Affairs. I must have forgotten I’d agreed to this and so winged it, telling how poor Gregory of Tours, a century after the fall of Rome, woke to find the Franks outside his house and turning his nice little Roman civilisation into a barbarian pigsty.

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