Matthew Norman's son suggests moving the residents of California to Florida
If that terracotta kraken wins or, more likely, steals it, thanks to the indulgence of the Supreme Court, I asked my son Louis as we drove through a biblical rainstorm on the M3, what the hell are we going to do? A long, anguished pause ensued. ‘I don’t know,’ he finally murmured, projecting a kind of cosmic Weltschmerz that struck me as impressively precocious for one of 23. ‘Another four years of this ... I simply do not know.’ ...
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