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If England does it this time, joy will be unconfined across class and ethnicity
The celebrated poet TS Eliot created a character who lamented, “I have measured out my life in coffee spoons”, a metaphor for lost opportunities and what-might-have-beens. A century or so later and many English men and women of a certain age feel we have …