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Perking down
From Tony Blair’s A Journey:
‘The great thing about Anji [Hunter] was her indestructible and occasionally incredible optimism. She perked up when others perked down. She saw the silver lining long before the cloud. She was a positive life force, bashing down whole fields of negativity, basking the environs around her with beams of light, joy and hope amid the darkness.’
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George Saunders defines comedy as "the indirect praise of perfection". This is a place for principled mockery of goings-on in politics and the arts, but hopefully always in the service of something better.
There will also be direct praise, as and when something deserves it.
