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Everyone thinks politics will just go on the way it is. I don't agree.

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Robert Harris
Age: 67
Born: 1957
Born: March 7
Journalist
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
Screenwriter
Writer
Kidderminster
Worcestershire
Robert Dennis Harris
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