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Jack Kessler

Thames Water to announce hosepipe ban for London

What is it with the English and their hosepipes? We’re not Americans, in that we’re hardly averse to state intervention in our lives (I mean, look at the tax burden).

Is it because an Englishman’s home is his castle? To quote an unnamed taxi driver from Kate Fox’s brilliant book, Watching the English, “He can’t actually have the moat and drawbridge, but he can make it bloody difficult to get to.”

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