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'If there's a smile on my face...'
Clive James isn't really a miserable bloke, he just likes to come across that way. But, in the first of his new Point of View columns, he says that's about to end.


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'The quantity of wild horses has not yet been invented to drag us back to play in public again' - Mark Ellen, bassist in Tony Blair's old band Ugly Rumours


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THURSDAY
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WEDNESDAY
Job done: As the smoking ban looms, what next for health lobby?
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One step forward, two back: Devon is a rambler's dream... or is it?
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TUESDAY
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