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Nigel Roebuck: Fifth Column

"A team-mate’s goodwill would be a handy card to hold"

In Formula 1 'the silly season' has always been that point in the year when rumours gather strength of who will be driving what the following season, and so on, but in the newspaper world the phrase refers to this time of the year - August - when not much is going on.

The House of Commons is mercifully closed for the holidays, TV dishes up repeats of repeats, and there is an impression that everything is on stand-by, awaiting the return of normality on September 1.

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