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Artists are not always good people, but should their work really be boycotted?

9 March 2019

9:00 AM

9 March 2019

9:00 AM

A kind billionaire called Jeremy Hosking, whom I do not know personally, has invited us to join the Britannia Express, a steam train, on 30 March, the day after Brexit. The train will traverse Wales and England, starting at Swansea and ending in Sunderland. In an unspoken rebuke to the metropolis, it will not travel via London.

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