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  • Pity the poor (anonymous) translator

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    The Sunday Times Culture magazine of August 2 contained, as it so often does, an interesting book review, written by the paper’s economics editor, David Smith. The sub-headline was encouraging: “The return of the rock star economist”, it proclaimed. The unlikely economic rock star is Thomas Piketty whose 2014 book “Capital in the 21st century” created a stir which in

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  • Afghani interpreters still left to their fate

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    Whilst the news media continue to focus on the plight of migrants in Kos and in Calais, they seem curiously reluctant to reveal the fate of people to whom Britain does owe a debt of gratitude. These people are foreign, they work in the war-torn Middle East, and they have served both US and British interests in that conflict zone.

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