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How water became a dirty word

The News Agents

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The Importance of Leadership in a Nation

I think it was partly about Brexit and how we can feel less complicated about nationalism and patriotism. But it's also about leadership, particularly an English leader in this moment. Southgate is an unlikely form of leader, as is Harry Kane as well - that's what the players is really looking at. And I think without being too grand about it, it's almost like a Greek tragedy. You talked about a nation coming to terms with its own, I don't know, sense of defeat or realism in a way of what it can achieve.

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