It has shades of the David Hicks row last week, where the "elites" were pitted against the "battlers".

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David Hicks, an Australian detainee at Guantanamo, plea bargained his way out of the camp with time served and nine months in an Australian prison.

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"Her mum, Nicolette, Marchioness of Londonderry, hired David Hicks to transform this fuddy-duddy estate into an extraordinarily groovy house with an incredible sense of color, " the designer marveled.

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Before going on, I should point out, in the interests of full disclosure, that we share a publisher - although I have never met David Hicks, nor read his book.

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