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15 August 2020

9:00 AM

15 August 2020

9:00 AM

A good war

Who could ever have imagined that the greatest act of rebellion in the second decade of the 21st century would be to enter a supermarket without wearing a face nappy? I’ve been doing it a lot lately — a kind of anti-Dick-Turpin. He became a folk legend by wearing a mask; I’ve become a folk legend by not wearing one.

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