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18 January 2014

9:00 AM

18 January 2014

9:00 AM

Towards the end of last year Tom Stoppard gave a rather brilliant PEN/Pinter lecture on freedom of expression which was, in part, a kind of love letter to the place which has been his home since 1946: ‘There is no country in the world I would rather be living in, no country where I would feel safer.

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Alan Rusbridger is editor of the Guardian.

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