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Tony’s lessons

Mar 21 2008 by Andrew Baldwin, Huddersfield Daily Examiner

LABOUR politician Tony Benn’s retirement left the House of Commons a poorer place.

Whether we agree with his views or not, there was no questioning his absolute integrity, his intellectual rigour as a Parliamentary orator.

A chance to hear him in person is being given in Huddersfield when he comes to the university on April 14 to give a talk on religion and politics.

One thing he will say is that he believes the Ten Commandments are a better guide to the good life than a study every hour of the Dow Jones industrial average.

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