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Culture is going underground: meet the rebel army

Leaf Arbuthnot and Igor Toronyi-Lalic on the new cultural rebels

4 July 2020

9:00 AM

4 July 2020

9:00 AM

Among the first to arrive was a Labour grandee. Then others drifted over: academics, musicians, writers, a nurse. They came from different directions, some looking shifty, others excited. The secret meeting point was an inconspicuous pub in north London. Queueing shoppers nearby assumed the growing crowd was waiting to get into the supermarket.

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