As did most of us, since Osborne & Little has paid precisely nothing in corporation tax for years. That allowed him to miss Jeremy Corbyn’s dry observation at prime minister’s questions that he had paid more in tax than the chancellor’s family firm. Having been bounced into publishing his tax return by David Cameron, George Osborne sensibly decamped to the US for meetings of the IMF and the G7 to avoid the fallout. Wednesdayīoris Johnson, David Cameron and Jeremy Corbyn were among politicians to publish tax returns. My friend thought it was the funniest thing she had ever seen and appeared rather disappointed I hadn’t been bitten. On the second day in the Masai Mara, I was spat at by a spitting cobra. Forty years ago, I was finally persuaded by a friend to go on holiday with her to Kenya after she persuaded me there was no chance of ever seeing a snake. I’ve always believed that snakes and humans should be kept as far apart as possible. What seems absolutely certain is that contact with humans did the snake no favours.
Others reckoned the death might have something to do with the kicking it was seen getting from some of the builders. One reptile expert suggested that the snake might have committed suicide – who knew pythons were prone to existential crises? – after coming into contact with people. Both the whereabouts of the missing half metre and the cause of death are unknown. First it is found alive on a Penang construction site where it is measured at 8 metres (26ft), then the next day it turns up dead and is remeasured at 7.5 metres. The mystery of the Malaysian python deepens.
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