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Charlie and the Chocolate Panic

Read spiked editor Mick Hume's Notebook in The Times (London).

Mick Hume

Mick Hume
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‘No, it was not a sugar rush to the brain from eating too much chocolate. I really did see it reported that Cadbury is to bury 250 tons of the stuff that is perfectly safe to eat. Children are warned not to risk a “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory-style hunt” for the burial mound. It only needs the sacrifice of an Oompa Loompa to complete the air of ancient superstitious ritual….’

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