If you pushed a little further up through the crowd you would see, on the other side, an old bloke with gingery hair who wore a long, thin, ochre-coloured coat, sitting there all day on a high wooden stool shouting: ‘Savaloys! Savaloys! Savaloys!’

I never went through a time when more people told me not to trust other people on an issue. Perhaps they were all right. The internal politics were byzantine, much of it played out in the media.

The woman licked her lipstick-smeared teeth at him and spoke, her voice full of hunger and venom: Hey, Rev! You gonna be my sugar daddy? Wanna give me the hot-beef injection?

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