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July 29, 2009

It’s life, Jim, but not as we know it

By Grey Cardigan

The Daily Mail has taken to dropping in these strange features pages labelled ‘life’ in the front of the book. Some of the content is clearly topical, but other pieces have a distinctly fusty smell about them.

Take today’s efforts: ‘Esperanto, the lingo of lovers’, ‘Is your husband hooked on internet porn?’, ’Why Tomorrow’s World was way ahead of its time’ … all could have been written at any time in the past few years.

So is this a sign that the rumoured £1million-worth of commissioned but never used features said to be lingering in dusty corners of Derry Street is finally seeing the light of day?

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