Outside the rarified realm of high-end matchmakers, of course, love is simple and everyone lives happily ever after.

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Huge factories, huge apartment blocks, I don't think everyone lives happily ever after.

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But UNESCO, like most other UN agencies, suffers from a house culture which prefers to deal with governments, and lives happily with the fiction that governments genuinely care about citizens and their heritage.

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No one lives happily ever after.

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Deference, the coping mechanism now spurned in Britain, lives on in a surprising number of places, happily co-existing with a generalised contempt for politicians.

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