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Pol Allingham

Zadie Smith: ‘It’s now natural to look left and think: Who the f*** are you?’

Zadie Smith wrote White Teeth in 2000 (Ian West/PA) - (PA Archive)

Literary titan Zadie Smith has said London life is harder now and it has become “very, very natural to look to your left and think: ‘Who the f*** are you?'”.

Smith was arguing that the erosion of Britain’s once “incredible” welfare system has created inequality and made differences between neighbours “existential”, during an interview with pop megastar Dua Lipa at the capital’s Southbank Centre on Saturday.

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