Jon Snow
Mad about trees?
Jon Snow tells the story of trees being planted on a busy street in north London.
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My shameful dilemma
Along a reasonably well-heeled street in the Camden area of north London, my attention is first drawn to an argument between a young man and a young woman on my left. And then, 50 yards later, I suddenly see a man in his 20s bashing a much younger woman’s face into the bonnet of a…
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Jon Snow
The ExCeL centre is the land that God forgot
Welcome to the end of the earth. Welcome to the land God forgot.. I am in the ExCeL centre. But worry not, the ExCeL centre excels at nothing. It has the shared misfortune with 20 of the world’s most powerful leaders of being the place that this summit is being held.
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Jon Snow
Viewing Britain from a Preston perspective
What a delightful and unexpected place Preston is. Now, today’s sunshine helped, its true. Boarded-up Woolies does not. The town was humming this afternoon, not least because of a particularly gifted duet of buskers in the centre – fluent black jazz trumpeter and white guitarist.
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Life and dearth in Britain: London
Having returned to London from the north east, it was catching the last tube home to Camden Town that taught me most. A young Ecuadorian student talked to me on the platform, her rather large boyfriend looking on with what looked like a cross between resentment and curiosity. We were joined by a surge of…