Black Caps deserve credit

Let's give the Black Caps some well-deserved credit

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30th December, 2011

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One of British satirical magazine Private Eye’s favourite devices is the mock correction highlighting a screeching U-turn. Like this one, purporting to come from Margaret Thatcher and the British Conservative Party after her blue-eyed boy, Cecil Parkinson, was forced to resign over revelations that he’d impregnated his former secretary: “Statements issued over the past few days may have given the impression that we wholeheartedly supported Mr Parkinson and deplored the intrusion of the media into his private life. We stated ...

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