He showed me a photograph of himself in costume: a cocked hat, a mustard-colored scarf of flax.

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But Dr Gwinn's set-up knocks even this into a cocked hat.

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The main question the exhibition raises is why should an artist such as Picasso have wanted to dress up as a harlequin in a diamond-patterned coat and a cocked hat?

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Because there is a minister in Michael Gove who must equally persuade all of the above that he has made the right call, that his English Bacc knocks the Welsh Bacc into a cocked hat, that his emphasis on more challenging exams and academic rigour will deliver gold standard qualifications.

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