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Morris major

he late Jan Morris, her editor notes in the foreword to this posthumous collection of essays, believed in the power of old ladies. Morris thought they were uniquely placed to spearhead a charge towards a more humane, less politicised way of running societies. Because, if they were anything like her, they realised that “when everything else is scarred, what

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