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James Delingpole

At last, the TV-hogging space invaders have returned to university

5 October 2019

9:00 AM

5 October 2019

9:00 AM

‘Hands up which other university parents are bloody glad to have got rid of their lumpen, food-gobbling, space-invading kids…’

When I tweeted this the other day having just dumped my offspring at Durham I got accused of being a bad father. But I don’t think I am. A bad father wouldn’t have been labouring in the dark at 12.30

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