Grown-ups may deplore that youngsters don't even say hello properly, but we do so among members of our own group.

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The Tories deplore the limits Labour has placed on choice in education new controls on self-governing schools, the abolition of assisted places in private schools, and the threat to the remaining selective grammar schools.

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By comparison, the front-runners seem creatures of their electoral machines, less able to reverse the pervasive cynicism that candidates all deplore.

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