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awful london coppers eating awful pies
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Living the other side of Bruce Castle now and having lived near the Emirates, the difference between the two is really noticeable: I could hear every goal Arsenal scored, but the Spurs ground must keep all the sound inside and reverberating.
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And now here I am, in my forties with a politics that failed and what will I put up in its place?
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What a baffling man he was, so much stranger and wiser than I gave him credit for, thinking him the most conventional of people.
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Me too, especially for their political sincerity, both strident and naive. We kind of lost that when New Wave of New Wave got subsumed by Britpop.
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ooh get her
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My favourite thing about our copy of this (apart from the fact we actually have it, which is wonderful) is the endpapers: not just inscriptions, but doodles, penmanship practice and a child's drawing
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too concise to be him
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I have a new post, about the alluring non-spaces in sketches: ofsmith.substack.com/p/partial-pi...
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I sent her *so many* cruise brochures during Johnson’s time.
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A civil servant friend of mine went through a spell where whenever she went on a big foreign holiday, a Tory PM would resign.
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Can’t believe you’re not recommending the country and western theme bar