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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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A Substack about politics and society from the perspective of a native son returning to the country of his birth after spending decades away as a foreign correspondent

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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.