Yes, there are no drives on which white-van man can park his motor of choice in piquant juxtaposition with his patriotic flags, but the terraced streets are dotted with white vans and not a few of the houses are homes to lairy, bald white blokes – one of them me. Yes, Islington South and Finsbury MP Emily Thornberry, in her justification of last week’s career-ruining tweet, may have found a house draped in England flags “remarkable” when she was campaigning for Labour in last week’s Rochester and Strood byelection, but in the north of the Islington where I live, such sights are not unusual. In the champagne-quaffing, wild boar carpaccio-munching, Tuscany-holidaying, Ocado-shopping, unacceptably leafy, patriotism-eschewing people’s republic of Islington. Just above the Spider-Man doll with its four limbs suckered to the bay window is what I’ve been looking for.
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