The Stop The War Coalition is a sort of home to Jew-haters because its hate music about Israel is so catchy.

I had worked on the markets with my father before going to university, so I possessed an apparent street-smartness, had access to a colourful costermonger vocabulary, and tried passing myself off as a bit of spiv. But my contemporaries saw through me. At heart, they knew I was as bookish and oversensitive as they were.

The environment in which I studied was so safe, I thought I would die from the boredom of it.

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