Got pulled by the family into a Chinese bookshop on the Charing Cross Road. Must have passed it a million times, never noticed it. It opened up into a cavern: beautiful Chinese language translations of Oscar Wilde, cookbooks, maps, language courses, hundreds of beautiful little figurines.

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Ticket SNAFU at St Pancras station. Machine hadn’t printed out my return ticket; email confirmation of said purchase wouldn’t get me through the gate. Had to run with heavy bags to the ticket office. No use: had to pay £96 for a new ticket. Ran back with heavy bags. Train in question was a whole…

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One thing @jburnmurdoch.ft.com doesn't consider, and it could be a cause, consequence or both, is declining taste for, & consumption of, alcohol. If you don't want to drink you are less likely to put yourself in situations where there is social pressure to or where you need it to overcome inhibition

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My grandfather (RAF veteran, injured 1944) had an answer for this shit. He fought to ensure that Britain would be free to continue its path as a free democratic country. Free, in other words, to change & evolve, not to remain stuck in a fantasised past. The very fact of change was proof of victory.

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Usual hand-wringing about returning to division and inaction, not getting the same opt-outs etc… but arguments to rejoin trump those what-ifs. Going it alone in a world dominated by Putin, Trump and China is strategically idiotic and economically ruinous. Shaking your head at that is red-flag-dim.

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