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Sailing into 2026
From the editor Dan Hutchinson: Survive ‘till ‘25’ was the call this time last year and that was always going to be too many punctuation marks.
The end of the world
Every day, I can’t help marvelling at this place.
Watch out there’s crocs on the loose
There’s a rule in journalism that if you write a story about how dry the weather has been, it will invariably rain.
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