Soaring inflation, wages not keeping up, the sun has gone, a shortage of dentists and people are already in a panic about how they are going to afford Christmas this year. Sorry, but I found it difficult to be cheerful about anything this week.
The collapse of the western backed government is Afghanistan is a shock.
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