Jeremy Clarke Jeremy Clarke

An orgy of violence at the summer fête

And the kids weren't even impressed

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issue 21 June 2014

After three days tête-à-tête (and sometimes tête-à-pied) I walked into town alone to get some air and see what the town was like and the people in it. In one direction, above the hills, the sky was black. Above the town, however, the sun was shining fiercely through a gap in the clouds.

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