Here's to the future
An end of summer dispatch from your Londoner editor
Hannah Williams
Hannah is a feature writer and critic whose work has appeared in the New Yorker, the Guardian, the New Statesman and the Financial Times. Email her at hannah@the-londoner.co.uk.
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