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Article: Does Lord Hollick enjoy the Express as much as I do?

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May 1, 1999
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Perhaps I am unusual, but I can't help liking Rosie Boycott's Express. Its politics are not exactly my own but it has a freshness and vigour that are attractive. There are several intelligent columnists. The editorials treat us like grown-ups. Nor is the paper always slavishly Blairite. It has attacked various government ministers, most notably Geoffrey Robinson, the former PaymasterGeneral forced to resign before Christmas.

So I like the Express. I really do. I pick it up with a light heart. (Let me again declare an interest as a columnist for the rival Daily Mail.) But I do not for a moment imagine I am a typical Express reader. If I were, I think I would be bewildered to see my old ...

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