By John Simpson, Monday, December 31, 2012
What the world's most famous correspondent gets up to off duty
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By John Simpson, Thursday, November 1, 2012
There was a time, not very long ago, when no one went to China; no one, that is, except a few foreign businessmen, one or two diplomats and maybe half a dozen journalists
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By John Simpson, Monday, October 1, 2012
This is a very attractive city: its decaying, colonial architecture hasn't yet been
swamped by the tsunami of bland, ill-designed Asian office buildings. It still
feels cut off from the outside world; it
hasn't yet lost its old national character, therefore. Come here soon, because it won't last long
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By John Simpson, Monday, July 2, 2012
I'm spending the Olympic Games here in my flat near the Eiffel Tower. And since, after 12 years, we still haven't got round to getting our television set hooked up to the satellite, I'll only find out in the old-fashioned way who wins what and how many world records are set: by reading
Le Monde and Le Figaro
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By John Simpson, Tuesday, June 19, 2012
I've been in worse places. Unquestionably I shall be in worse places quite soon. But for the next couple of hours, until it's time to go in for a shower, a change of clothes and dinner, let me look out at the prospect in front of me and savour it
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By John Simpson, Monday, May 14, 2012
'Venetians,' said my guidebook, in that irritating know-it-all way guidebooks can have, 'forget that the outside world exists. They talk as though Venice is the only place on earth that counts.' I didn't believe it for a minute
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By John Simpson, Sunday, April 1, 2012
So here you are, installed in your seat with your seatbelt done up, no doubt waiting for your first drink. You've just picked up High Life and by good luck (my good luck, that is, not necessarily yours) this article has caught your eye
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By John Simpson, Tuesday, March 27, 2012
I've fastened my seatbelt and made sure my seatback is in the upright position; I think that's what the cabin announcement just said. I'm whacked. I finally got to bed at 1am, lay down until 4am, packed and shaved (sort of)
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By John Simpson, Monday, February 20, 2012
I've always had a problem with New York. Not with Chicago, San Francisco, Washington or Boston, all of which I like a great deal; just with New York
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