Good morning, citizens. Today: researchers abroad have discovered that a body prefers to sleep at the same hour every night, which the Ministry of Rest has been kind enough to arrange for you in a bottle. Other nations have named a singer their Artist of the Month, and we could not be prouder of them. Yesterday's Gratitude Hour ran to a minute and a half of silence and nobody moved. And then the mailbag — six hundred and twelve letters folded on the same table, a Junior Correspondent with a very good question about my favourite colour, and one citizen who sent me her sweet. Everything is already wonderful.

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