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  • David Davies: I assure Mark that I understand 'jackanory'-I saw it when I read the Labour Party's manifesto for the last election.

    Virtual reality 2004

  • Brian Gibbons: Will you explain 'jackanory' to David Davies the next time that you meet him?

    Virtual reality 2004

  • Their smirking photograph - which is not evident on their web sites - shows I feel that they knew all along that their jackanory story was complete rubbish.

    Archive 2007-04-01 2007

  • The jackanory story is that Gordon Brown's speech is overly close in wordage to some stuff by one Mr Shrum.

    Derrida He Say: "There are Only Just So Many Sayables" 2007

  • The jackanory story is that Gordon Brown's speech is overly close in wordage to some stuff by one Mr Shrum.

    Archive 2007-09-23 2007

  • Headteachers across Wales have told me that the workload agreement reads like jackanory, it is excellent with the exception of the 'f'-word-funding-and it will not work.

    Virtual reality 2004

  • Very good it was too, sort of like an interactive jackanory.

    The Guardian World News 2009

  • It's just a case of bypassing the septic tanks [Americans] and getting the old jackanory straight. "

    The Local - Sweden's news in English 2010

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