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Notes around the 29th March

Part One: Nothing like a two day trip out of London to remind me why I still feel profoundly grateful that I remain a committed citizen of Europe. In Manchester the north-south divide and Brits against spiks mentality that that coalition of nationalist prejudice UKIP , hard-line Tory Brexiteers, and some Corbynistas are so fond of turning into a battle cry, is defied by a less binary reality. Under its elected Labour Mayor, the very pragmatic and non-ideological Andy Burnham ,Manchester is a thriving multicultural hub full of commercial enterprise, …

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