Meanwhile, Michael Heseltine (to name but one) was in fact capable of extraordinary idiocies.

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One of the great advantages of competition in the supply of anything is that these sorts of idiocies get punished: those who commit them go bust.

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One was Lloyd Grove, a wry, acerbic writer for the paper's Style section who specialized in lampooning the idiosyncracies and idiocies of politicians of all stripes.

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