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Re:The strange case of Britain’s demise by atchoo on Saturday December 17, 2022 @08:10PM (#34034056)
"Febrile" is basically a UK Politics meme after being used by journos to describe the "atmosphere in Westminster" during each crisis of the week.
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Re:The strange case of Britain’s demise by akiselev on Saturday December 17, 2022 @08:15PM (#34034086)
It's also a word most people learned thanks to the fictional Malcolm Tucker character in The Thick of It (Season 3, episode 6 when he's yelling at Ben Swain)
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