Theodore Dalrymple

Global warning | 11 August 2007

You — or perhaps it would be more accurate to say I — can’t get away anywhere from crime and criminality.

You — or perhaps it would be more accurate to say I — can’t get away anywhere from crime and criminality.

You — or perhaps it would be more accurate to say I — can’t get away anywhere from crime and criminality.

I was walking down a country lane in one of the most beautiful shires of England.

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