Diary of a Dissenter: A Week From My Window

'I had rather be any kind o' thing than a Fool, and yet I would not be thee.’ — The Fool, ‘King Lear’

Image: Jonathan Castellino

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Chasing the Elephant

SUNDAY

I am in London, a city that, when my country seemed to set itself at des…