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Once upon a time, I thought that politics was the name we gave to our higher instincts. That was before Margaret Thatcher, who came to power when I was 11 years old.

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Like children all over the world, by the age of 10 I’d come to believe that most of the really humane creatures were not really human at all.

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I wasn’t like other boys. At any rate, I wasn’t like my three elder brothers: they excelled at football and they were like other boys, going up to bed each night hugging annuals filled with stories about the glories of Pele and Danny McGrain.

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April 21, 2024

I wasn’t like other boys. At any rate, I wasn’t like my three elder brothers: they excelled at football and they were like other boys, going up to bed each night hugging annuals filled with stories about the glories of Pele and Danny McGrain.

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April 21, 2024

Like children all over the world, by the age of 10 I’d come to believe that most of the really humane creatures were not really human at all.

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