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Bristol is now a hotbed of ‘ventrification’

Why privileged protestors flock to Bristol

27 March 2021

9:00 AM

27 March 2021

9:00 AM

Seeing my hometown, Bristol, in flames this week following the violent ‘Kill the Bill’ riots, it was unrecognisable as the safe south-west city which I had dreamed of leaving since the age of 12 (when I started sleeping beneath a poster of Harry Beck’s classic London Underground map). I finally escaped to the capital in search of fame, fortune, sex and drugs at 17.

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