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Trapped in First Class

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I was determined to get out today. Now that Highbridge is free of engineering works, it seems like the rest of the world has succumbed and it was impossible to find tickets anywhere really interesting.

Abstract artwork for Among the Dark Satanic Mills

Among the Dark Satanic Mills

This is the Cross of St. George, the National Flag of England: For some reason, it has become associated over the years with the extremist right, with racial superiority and frankly, with little to do with the modern, multicultural England in which I live.