Category Archives: england

Shit, scared

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Quotas

We live in interesting times, as the Chinese curse has it. A few months ago, after reading about the treatment meted out to refugees in Britain and thinking about the mood of anti-refugee rage I encounter so often when I’m … Continue reading

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What it says on the packet

Suffering from what is almost certainly post-party flu, I’ve been a recent visitor to our local chemist’s and I’ve been struck, as always, by the subtle, and not so subtle, cultural differences between the UK and Italy. In England, medicines … Continue reading

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