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Inequality, they know, is a dagger to the heart of democracy — and it’s one they enthusiastically wield.

In March he said that the controversy around Gaza: How to Survive a Warzone was like a "dagger to the heart" of BBC impartiality.

“We are driving a dagger straight into the heart of the climate change religion,” Zeldin said.

EPA administrator Lee Zeldin in March proclaimed the administration was “driving a dagger straight into the heart of the climate change religion.”

"He was subsequently stopped and a small sickle, a large dagger which was in a sheath on a belt, and a peeling knife, were seized," the force said.