All over Europe, and quite possibly the rest of the world, there are unexpected fluctuations. When the lights go out in, first one country, then another, it makes the news in those places which still have electricity in their humming wires. Similarly, when those who have worked their whole lives at the intricate machine that we all take for granted, are bundled onto planes which never come down from the sky, there are candlelit vigils outside embassies on the far side of the world. These are the things we talk about on public transport which no longer takes us quite to where we wish to be, or at the water cooler when we discover that there is no water, and that it’s not as cool as we’d expect at this time of year.
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Oz Hardwick
Picture Kushal Poddar
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