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31 January 2024

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Retired Anglican prison chaplain. Listening volunteer.

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Swansea.

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Four or five years but a reader since the 1960s.

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It was in my (state) school library.

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Too many, but I cheered Andrew Marr on offensive Labour publicity.

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This article appears in the 31 Jan 2024 issue of the New Statesman, The Rotten State