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Two Cheers for London

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Ben Sixsmith
Dec 17, 2025
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When I travel from Tarnowskie Góry, home to about 60,000 people, to Gliwice, home to about 175,000 people, Gliwice seems depressingly big. Don’t get me wrong: it has a lot of advantages. I like Gliwice. But it seems too big.

If Gliwice seems too big, you can imagine what I think about London. Yes, I have some of the common complaints of right-leaning peo…

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