But given today's rhetoric about bullying, you could be forgiven for thinking that kids today are not simply reading and watching grim, postapocalyptic fantasies like "The Hunger Games" but actually inhabiting such terrifying terrain, a world where "Lord of the Flies" meets "Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior, " presided over by Voldemort.

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Conservative peer Lord Forsyth of Drumlean argued that a "devo-max" option in the referendum would affect the whole of the UK, because it would create an "English parliament and a federal parliament".

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