Digested week: now the miraculous white stag is dead, there are rats in our toilets | Lucy Mangan

On top of a plague of pipe-climbing vermin, the country is facing Boris Johnson’s battle to save Christmas

Hunters of old, as Robert Baden-Powell once noted, pursued the white stag – “the miraculous stag” – not because they expected to kill it but because “it led them in the joy of the chase to new and fresh adventures, and so to capture happiness”.

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