"Kate Saunders" is an English writer, actress and journalist. The daughter of the early public relations advocate Basil Saunders and his journalist wife Betty (née Smith), Saunders has worked for newspapers and magazines in the UK, including The Sunday Times (UK)/The Sunday Times, Sunday Express, Daily Telegraph, She and Cosmopolitan (magazine)/Cosmopolitan.

She has also been a regular contributor to radio and television, with appearances on the BBC Radio 4/Radio 4 programmes Woman's Hour, Start the Week and Kaleidoscope (UK radio series)/Kaleidoscope. She was, with Sandi Toksvig, a guest on the first episode of the long-running news quiz programme Have I Got News for You.

Saunders won the annual Costa Book Awards /Costa Children's Book Award for Five Children on the Western Front (2014), a contribution to the classic fantasy series that Edith Nesbit inaugurated in 1902 with Five Children and It.

She has written many books, such as "The Wild Young Bohemians" and also co-wrote Catholics and Sex (1992) with Peter Stanford who was then editor of the Catholic Herald Saunders and Stanford later presented a television series based on the book on Channel 4.

Saunders is also an actress, appearing as a policewoman dated by Rodney Trotter in an episode of Only Fools and Horses in 1982.

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He has the moral authority to be able to enforce that. In the absence of this 14th Dalai Lama ... I think the picture would be much more uncertain.

President Bush is certainly expected to raise the issue of a possible visit by His Holiness to China and express his support for the ongoing dialogue between the envoys of His Holiness and Beijing.

Of course, there are lots of brothels near military areas and camps, as everywhere in the world.

For many Tibetans it was the first time they had heard about it. There were thousands listening in complete silence.

The strongest comments are from the Chinese scientists. This is not at all surprising. . . . Chinese protests against high-profile visits of the Dalai Lama are routine wherever he travels.

It is not unprecedented that the two will be in the United States at the same time.

Nepal uses its strengthening relationship with China to offset its dependence on India. Tibet is of crucial importance in all of that dynamic.

It's a testament to the continued influence of the Dalai Lama.