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Reasons to be cheerful.
What with the economy tanking and sugar prices rising, not to mention cutbacks in the NHS and eighteen rare Bengal tigers shot in Zanesville, Ohio, the news seems to be almost all bad this week.* In an attempt to be positive, I offer you the following list of things that make me happy, in the hopes [...]
Cairo (bet you thought I was going to say China)
Given the state of the news, I can’t help thinking of the visit I made to Cairo courtesy of the British Council about two years ago. I was there for the Cairo book festival with fellow authors Anthony Horowitz, Margaret Drabble and David Almond. After a meeting with Mrs Mubarak, who talked about the importance [...]
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