ON THE CONTRARY
June 2013
‘I imagined that my having written a novel about weight and food issues meant that I owed journalists the lowdown on my private diet and exercise habits. Wrong’
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May 2013
‘When I asked my winsome Han tour guide what would happen when the skyscrapers collapsed, she said with cheerful gusto, “We’ll build them again!”’
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April 2013
‘In case some of you Europeans were getting hopeful, no, mainstream demography does not predict that Americans are on the brink of extinction’
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March 2013
'Obama's attempt to discourage a British referendum on EU membership was old-style imperialism'
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