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The little slaves
Developing a hard outer shell is essential if you are going to survive as a gora in Pakistan
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Fame, fortune, celebrity — and death
It has been something of a grim year when it comes to celebrity deaths
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The mutating news-scape
Print newspapers the world over are withering and many have already died having failed to adapt
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The post-truth era
The internet has been playing jiggery-pokery with the truth as well to the surprise of nobody
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Among the hipsters
Classy events to mark the opening of a high-end salon are not my usual beat
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Security, fakery and fatalism
So-called ‘bomb sniffers’ were exposed as fraudulent years ago and its ‘inventor’ Jim McCormick jailed in the UK
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Less poor but no richer
Happiness is in short supply these days
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Finding spaces
Anew pizza joint opened in the city last week, one of a global chain and nothing remarkable in that you may think
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Political incorrectness redux
PC describes language, policies or measures designed not to offend any particular group of people
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The Lords of Misrule
By two o’clock on Tuesday afternoon it was all over bar the shouting