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Somewhere right now a parent is standing over a cot with a phone raised, taking the fourteenth photo of a sleeping baby who ...

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A friend rang me at two in the morning, Bangkok time, which meant it was a civilised hour wherever he was and a criminal one where I was. He was forty-six. He ...