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Thursday, November 01, 2007

Three cheers to...

...whoever arranged for the Imperial March from Star Wars to be played whilst King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia met the Queen!

[See also: Samizdata's take on this]

Posted by James at 9:29 pm
Topics: british politics, international affairs, music

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