Jeremy Clarke Jeremy Clarke

When Brexiter meets Catalexiter

In a back-packers’ hostel in Rwanda I met – and bonded with – a couple of fellow separatists from Spain

issue 30 November 2019

After the hostel breakfast, I stood on the tropical grass lawn smoking the first fag of the day and mulled things over. For the past three days I had been pedalling my electric power-assisted bike up and down Rwanda’s green hills. I was bruised from falls, physically and mentally tired, and prone, as I always am in Africa, to mood swings.

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