It was quite a surprise when I noticed last week that we had posted so many articles over 13 years.

The 20,000 articles include over 700 of my own. A selection of these, about 100, is now published in an eBook, ‘Summing Up’.

When we launched Pearls and Irritations I wrote all the articles and Susie handled all the production and administration. Susie said that she was the Pearl and I was the Irritation.

It has been a rewarding journey.

We owe so much to writers who were not paid but were concerned about the lack of informed and independent debate on key issues such as climate change, relations with our region, particularly with Indonesia and China, and growing........

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