Sitting in court one morning this week, listening to the slow, long-winded and repetitive pleadings of a lawyer making his case before the beak, your correspondent had cause to muse on the virtues of brevity.
If life is too short to stuff a mushroom it is surely also too precious to rabbit on,
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