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Diary

The day Keir Starmer cried on me about his childhood

18 May 2024

9:00 AM

18 May 2024

9:00 AM

I have had a good idea. It may even be an important idea. See what you think. The other day I interviewed Keir Starmer for my weekly podcast, Rosebud. It’s so called because of the Orson Welles film Citizen Kane. Rosebud, you will recall, was the trade name of the sledge on which Kane, as a boy, was playing the day he was taken away from his home and his mother.

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