Kishwar Desai | London Diary
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Kishwar Desai | London Diary

Deccan Chronicle  

The only advantage of having Donald Trump in situ across the pond was that he made Boris Johnson look like a genius. Halloween, the American festival with pumpkins and children in scary makeup going from door to door asking for “trick or treat” comes on the same day as Guy Fawkes Night in England. Many local municipalities organised large public bonfires in open parks where families could gather to watch the effigies go up in smoke. Now for the first time there is a somewhat negative biography written by a Conservative grandee, Lord Ashcroft, titled Going for Broke: The Rise of Rishi Sunak. Marina is, of course, the Prime Minister’s former wife, and is also related to the late author Khushwant Singh.

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