GlobeToddles

I always thought those were the lyrics. In my head this poor girl (I'm more familiar with the Kirsty MacColl version of " A New England " than Billy Bragg's original) was wandering around North America trying to find an elusive area of land, fervently explaining to each passer-by whom she asked for directions that she most definitely did not have a political agenda. As I sit in our Boston Airbnb which is owned by a political adviser for the Democrat party, having spent the afternoon at the JFK Presidential Library, the day before walking around Lexington and Concord where the American Revolutionary War began, and a few days prior to that in Plymouth where the Mayflower landed and the Pilgrims built themselves a new life away from (Old) England, I'm not surprised they questioned her: it seems Massachusetts is all about people who want to change the world. Hold up, I hear you say: you're in Boston now? Yes. After a few months in the UK we've resumed our...