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Timothy Balding

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Born in 1954 in London of mixed Scottish and English parentage, Timothy Balding grew up and was educated on a British military base in Germany. He left school and his family at the age of sixteen to return alone to the United Kingdom, where he was hired as a reporter on local newspapers in Reading in the county of Berkshire. For the ensuing decade, he worked on local and regional titles and then at Press Association, the national news agency, covering politics in Westminster, the British Parliament. He exiled himself to Paris, France, in 1980, and spent the next thirty years working for international, non-governmental organizations. For twenty-five of these, he was Chief Executive Officer of the World Association of Newspapers, the represen
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Timothy Balding Goodness gracious me! Fergus old chap! One of the teenage Valpy Street gang who terrorized the local council and peace-loving citizens in the early 70…moreGoodness gracious me! Fergus old chap! One of the teenage Valpy Street gang who terrorized the local council and peace-loving citizens in the early 70s. And there you were hiding in plain sight all these years. Well, well. So nice to hear from you, here in the depths of the French provinces. I went to Paris in 1978 following a French girl and fell in love with the place and the country. And I've been here ever since (though the girl is long gone). All the best, Timothy(less)
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“It’s vital in diplomacy to get the upper hand morally before you start killing people,”
Timothy Balding, The Zucchini Conspiracy: A Novel of Alternative Facts

“Akim saw clearly that Bogdanov was a man without ambition or worldly needs and therefore some one he could trust.”
Timothy Balding, The Zucchini Conspiracy: A Novel of Alternative Facts

“regimes who incarnate the spirit of repression, regimes that rise to power against someone or something, but never for a confident and optimistic cause. I really don’t think we’re ready quite yet to climb out of the hole we continue to dig for ourselves, our noble human race.”
Timothy Balding, The Zucchini Conspiracy: A Novel of Alternative Facts

“Akim saw clearly that Bogdanov was a man without ambition or worldly needs and therefore some one he could trust.”
Timothy Balding, The Zucchini Conspiracy: A Novel of Alternative Facts

“Watching the troop carriers disappear into the sun’s glare, Bogdanov experienced an ineffable moment of profound peace.”
Timothy Balding, The Zucchini Conspiracy: A Novel of Alternative Facts

“He fell to his knees, still smiling, and clasped his hands in prayer. Bogdanov had never been so happy in his life as at this moment of his death. Akim went behind the kneeling man, took out both his Luger pistols, and fired a bullet from each of them into the back of Bogdanov’s head.”
Timothy Balding, The Zucchini Conspiracy: A Novel of Alternative Facts

“All was thus well and tranquil for the rulers of Bangistan, a resolute non-member of any collective organization of men and peoples, with no internal or external opposition to speak of. It could indeed have remained that way for the rest of time. Then the Akims had made their fatal move. They had joined Twitter”
Timothy Balding, The Zucchini Conspiracy: A Novel of Alternative Facts

“As for the ordinary people, one might think that only those who live in terror in dictatorships like Bangistan deserve our absolution for choosing to ignore it.”
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