Why It’s Good to Talk to Strangers
<p>Inthe summer of 2018 I undertook a cycle journey that took me almost to the four corners of London. I would later embark on a longer two-wheel-powered trip that took me to farther places, but the one in the summer of 2018 was the one that stuck in my mind the most.</p>
<p>The reasons vary, but at the heart of it is that I saw my fellow Londoners (born here or not) in a different light. Consider that only two years before the country had voted to leave the European Union. A few months after that calamitous decision, Trump was elected president of the US. Although in charge of a different nation, Trump’s pervasive, unfiltered, populist views affected British politics in a way that we’ve yet to address, let alone fix and reverse.</p>
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