Swimming gentle laps of the pool, on a megaship steaming through the North Sea, while tables full of people too decrepit and\/or obese to be allowed on a plane, look on, eating their burgers.<\/p>\n
Peak civilisation or dystopian fantasy?<\/p>\n
The oil platforms we\u2019re cruising past, plus the amount of coughing and sneezing around me, reminding me I\u2019m on what has been described as a floating petri disk, incline me towards the latter. All it needs is for us to sail past a boatload of desperate asylum seekers trying to make their way to England to complete the illusion.<\/p>\n
On the other hand, I am enjoying myself\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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