As contract writers for The Sunday Times Magazine, we had collected for dinner in a London restaurant at the invitation of the editor Robin Morgan, to hear his thoughts for the new winter features.

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He writes regularly in The Independent on Sunday, Evening Standard and Sunday Times Travel magazine, and has written and contributed to guides for the AA, Dorling Kindersley and Michelin.

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Downing joined MyPotential in July after an embarrassing episode at the paper in which it agreed to split profits from a special edition of the Times Sunday magazine with Staples Center, the subject of the issue.

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