Not many people in our first class carriage to Cambridge, but there is a young mother with a fractious and garrulous toddler, and a miserable looking student type with a terrible hacking cough, either a pack a day smoker or some horrendous and probably infectious disease, pulmonary TB or whatever is the current pandemic flu de jour. I am rather annoyed that no conductor has turned up to expose their mendacity and fling them out, back to the cesspit of 2nd class from whence they came. My transformation into a Tory is nearly complete.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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