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A wry view of British politics and society from a native son who’s spent decades as a foreign correspondent and is now back home and often bewildered by what’s happening here
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Stephen Vines is a recovering journalist, writer and broadcaster who based in Hong Kong for 35 years and is now getting to grips with the strangely pleasant land called Britain.