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But I don’t want to be too much of a churl.

It promised December after December of piqued arguments and cascading overreactions, churls chiming in from all sides, with no argument essentially lame.

Only a churl would lament the existence of these testaments to the out-of-nowhere potential of a great pop hit.

And you’d have to be a churl not to like it.

Fondness for the Brown years is a niche sentiment in British politics, but only the churls deny that he was a substantial figure.