Narnian Winter?

Culturally, it seems to have been a long and winding road of a summer doesn’t it? Summer began with the anti-climactic Queen’s diamond jubilee, with its pathetic fallacy weather and ostentatious showcasing of unearned wealth, privilege and influence. Unsurprisingly, it conspicuously failed to “unite the nation” in patriotic fervour or even great affection for the institution of monarchy. Instead it was the Olympics, that hugely expensive mega-event with its enormous “site of exception” to the normal laws of the land, that created a mood of goodwill and harmony that I have never before experienced in the country.

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