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Vicky Jessop

OPINION - Long live the book exchanges on the Tube: they're the best of London

A sign informing commuters of the removal of the book libraries from Tube stations at Clapham North - (Supplied)

Thank you Sadiq Khan, for seeing the light. Whatever your critics make of you, surely they can’t criticise you for this: stopping books being removed from tube stations.

A word of context before we begin. I know this was not on the same level as, say, Trump taking a handaxe to the US constitution, but it is also a tiny slap to the face in a world that seems depressingly full of them at the moment.

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