It was started as a periodical featuring student politics, badinage and literary efforts.
Time does not permit me to get into that sort of political badinage.
The country hates this kind of badinage.
I do not want to become involved in any party political badinage about the way in which the figures for the long-term unemployed are arrived at.
I hope that we can now get away from this party-political badinage and back to a more sensible debate about what is going on in our society.
The first is that for all the badinage, they are vital.
We had a little badinage earlier in our discussions on the subject of conversions.
The diversion that has occurred with the badinage between the two leading speakers has not helped the debate much.