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The Wiki Man

Markets are clever precisely because people are silly

29 September 2018

9:00 AM

29 September 2018

9:00 AM

A month ago I wanted to travel to Bath for a 60th birthday party. From Kent, this either involves a Tube journey to Paddington or traversing the south-western stretch of the M25, where — in the rare moments you are not in stationary traffic — you have the even worse experience of driving over 10,000 misaligned slabs of ribbed concrete.

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