This month, I visited the offices of The Critic for our summer party. Sat outside the office, waiting for someone to let me in, I looked up and saw police officers striding towards me.
With faultless professionalism, they explained that they had had reports of a suspicious man wearing a beanie, with a bag. As it was the opening of Parliament, they feared I was an anti-royalist agitator.
This seemed ironic when I was working for one of Britain’s more right-wing magazines. When I said this to a friend, though, he frowned and said, “Well, you look a bit left-wing.”
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