The military historian Alan Clark has described Douglas Haig's strategy as blinkered.

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Over the past 10 years he has taken in Sophie Wessex (who described Cherie Blair as "horrid" and Gordon Brown's Budget as "a load of pap"), Princess Michael of Kent (who labelled Princess Diana "nasty" and "strange"), and Newcastle United chiefs Freddy Shepherd and Douglas Hall (who described footballer Alan Shearer as "boring").

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The original purpose of pleats was to allow more fabric for when a man sat down, according to Alan Flusser, author of menswear guidebook "Dressing The Man" and a custom tailor whose credits include Michael Douglas' wardrobe in the original "Wall Street" movie.

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