He had dismissed the allegations, incidentally, as "an inverted pyramid of piffle".

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The wafflier the piffle, the more sharply Mr Nicholson wields his skewer.

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To this piffle the best retort is: grow up.

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Piffle, says Vyacheslav Nikonov, a Kremlin-friendly political analyst.

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