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Issue 1681

£24,000 - Money spent by imprisoned former SNP chief executive Peter Murrell on 21 pens, ink refills and pen pouches between 2016 and 2021

£2,301 - Money spent by the Scottish parliament on 14,437 pens between January
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Nadine Phworries Writes exclusively for the Doolally Mail... Why the Burnham Bounce is a disaster for Burnham... Burnham U-turns ‘confident and decisive’... Why not enjoy a road trip through southern France?... Rogue AI bots nothing to worry about... Something we said was bad isn’t... Conspiracy update: King and Queen emerge from the Tardis special... Person on social media has no strong opinion about The Odyssey... My summer of 1976, as told to Craig Brown

Power struggle
Lady Liberty on America’s data centre wars

Local problems
Which is the rottenest borough of them all?

Debbie downer
The FA’s timid attitude to Fifa’s Infantino

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