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There's method in his madness

  1. There is often a plan behind a person's apparently inexplicable behavior. Based on a line from Shakespeare's Hamlet.



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Yet to paraphrase a line from the play, there’s method in his madness.

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Others say there's method in his madness and that his in-your-face, far-right policies may help to make the Front National look moderate on issues like security and immigration.

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But there's method in his madness:

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Yet there’s method in his madness.

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If he's mad, 'there's method in his madness,' as Walter Scott would have said.

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