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The Great Hedge of India | The illiberal elite | Word origins | Memes | English national costume | Brian Clough’s political stand | Robert Vaughn, super fly guyAs Donald Trump is now talking of a fence in some places rather than a wall (Report, 14 November), perhaps he might also consider a hedge. In 1869 a hedge stretched across the whole of India – a distance of 2,300 miles. The Great Hedge was a customs barrier put up by the British to levy a duty on salt – cutting off an af