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As ever with modern Britain, we are let down by a vast, over-manned, over-funded, hidebound, obstructive, box-ticking and incompetent bureaucracy.
Frederick Forsyth
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Frederick Forsyth
Age: 86
Born: 1938
Born: August 25
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Frederick McCarthy Forsyth
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