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The White Queen, readers of Lewis Carroll will recall, told Alice she had the habit of believing six impossible things before breakfast. Roger Scruton seems to believe one impossible thing before he opens any bottle of wine. He writes, ‘No screwtop can match the use, beauty and moral significance of a cork’, and doubtless the more rational New Statesman reader who encountered the article wherein these sentiments were published last August went on his way without giving such pompous proclamations, however entertaining, any more heed. ...
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