too many people are homeless and living in shameful beggary in this country
Recent Examples on the WebHence his need to construct an elaborate scheme of beggary that seems to have involved the bills being paid initially by the Cabinet office, then by the Conservative Party, then by a private donor, and finally, and only after the whole affair became a political embarrassment, by Johnson himself.—Fintan O’Toole, The New York Review of Books, 13 May 2021
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