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3 May 2023

This England: Block and awe

This column – which, though named after a line in Shakespeare’s “Richard II”, refers to the whole of Britain – has run in the NS since 1934.

By New Statesman

A man caused a traffic jam by standing in front of a bus that he had just missed.

This left a huge traffic jam of several hundred metres and led to a stand-off between the man and the bus driver. After the pair had a brief argument, the driver relented and allowed the man on.
The Sun
(Adam Robertson)

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