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Once Strictly was comfort TV. Now Ed Balls’s Gangnam Style looks like a cry for help
Good day, dearest Times reader, and welcome to the week where, courtesy of Radio 4, we learnt an important fact. Doing a phone interview with the Today programme, Andy Burnham, the mayor of Greater Manchester, was in the middle of a serious conversation …