...Britain has a hugely inflated sense of self. ... - Zia Haider Rahman

Perhaps the elites run to a different beat of time.

An exile is a refugee with a library!

Spread along the platform was a mass of bobbing black hair like a long wave of silk. Suddenly I felt the first stirrings of what I would later come to recognize as kinship, a feeling that alarmed me, a sense that I was of a piece with a group of people for the most basic reasons, simple to the senses and irrational. They all looked like me.