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    BIRD’S WORDS

    Jan 23, 2023 3 minutes

    THIS WEEK JOHN WILL BE

    Watching: University Challenge backlog

    Reading: The New Class War: Saving Democracy from the Metropolitan Elite by Michael Lind

    Listening: Francis Poulenc’s Piano Concertos

    Doing: Building our All-Party Parliamentary Group for Business Responses to a Social Crisis

    I know where I was on September 19, 1965. I was 19, it was a Sunday and I was newly married and living with my wife in Edinburgh. On that day I went with her to the Botanic Gardens on the edge of the city, to the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art. Now

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