ON THE CONTRARY
September 2013
‘Permitting cigarettes while cracking down on e-cigs is worse than barmy. It’s a violation of our civil rights’
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July/August 2013
'Whenever I buy something over the phone I am giving a total stranger the means to clean out my current account'
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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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