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    Wolverhampton wonderer

    Mar 25, 2021 4 minutes
    Michael Henderson

    AS HE IS KEEN TO TELL READERS, and, having told them, to remind them at every opportunity, Sathnam Sanghera is from Wolverhampton, the Staffordshire city (no “West Midlands” nonsense) which screams “Black Country”. A grammar school boy, he read English at Cambridge, the first member of his family to attend a college of knowledge. Let’s hear it for the Wolverhampton wanderer! Wave those gold and black scarves. Sanghera is also a Sikh, and has spent his life carrying a bag of ancestral memories like some modern Pilgrim, trapped between two cultures on his progress through our fractured kingdom.

    Taken to the Punjab as

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