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  • The Oldie

    ALAN JUDD

    Jul 27, 2022 2 minutes

    ‘Unable to sleep the other night for worrying about badgers…’

    Thus the inimitable Auberon Waugh once began an article. I can’t recall his subject but it doesn’t matter because, hidden beneath his irony, lies one of the stratagems for life: try not to worry about things you can’t influence.

    The future of our planet, for example – apparently the sun

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