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Liffe after deathThe topic on everyone's lips recently has of course been the furore surrounding death of the Pope and the appointment of his successor. My son Sebastian, for instance, has been fretting almost constantly about how he's going to get rid of the five hundred 'I like the Pope, the Pope smokes dope' slogan t-shirts he bought to sell to students - all proudly bearing the beaming mug of the late John Paul II. Even if the new man does prove to take a significantly more liberal line regarding soft drugs than his predecessor he would need to have some fairly significant plastic surgery to make those saleable. Anyway, leaving him to his problems, I would like to bring you an online futures market based on which cardinal was...