Matthew Parris Matthew Parris

If we can’t use the bus, why can’t we use each other’s cars?

So there I was last Monday at 12.20, standing outside All Saints Church in Elton, in the Peak District of Derbyshire where I live, with a small suitcase, on my way to London.

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