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Rod Liddle

Is there anything that can’t be put down to a ‘condition’?

24 August 2019

9:00 AM

24 August 2019

9:00 AM

I suppose it is overstating the case to suggest that dyslexia is simply a term coined to assuage the disappointment of middle-class parents faced with offspring who are considerably thicker than they fondly imagined them to be. There was an interesting report a few years ago by Professor Joe Elliott of Durham University.

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