King Farouk
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Reporting Egypt’s revolution three years ago, I had a sense of history not so much repeating itself as discharging sparks…
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‘Daddy, what did you tweet in the culture war?’
‘There’s 3.5 times surge pricing.’
‘So much for the parties’ tree-planting pledge.’
‘Alexa, do you remember the good old days?’
