It’s probably haram to quote Cecil Rhodes these days, but he was bang on when he said: ‘Remember that you are an Englishman, and have subsequently drawn the greatest prize in the lottery of life.’
We’ve had peak property, peak journalism, peak publishing, peak medicine, peak travel, peak coffee
Even as a mere Englishwoman, I’ve had the best of everything (hence this unapologetically smug column).
Disagree with half of it, enjoy reading all of it
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