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A wry view of British politics and society from a former foreign correspondent returning home after decades overseas. However the author, a recovering journalist, has been unable to shrug off a perpetual interest in the Great Abroad, specifically Hong Kong and China plus events in the Middle East, which has proved to be as intractable as it was when he first started writing about it in the 1970s.
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