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SAME DELANEY IS AT HOME

I’ve lived in London my whole life and experienced a wide array of public disturbances along the way.

I was 15 in 1990 when the poll tax riots kicked off and recall a couple of teachers and pupils coming into school on the Monday morning with a few bruises and some exciting tales to tell.

In 2003 I was working for Channel 5 news, covering the protest against the Iraq

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