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  • The Rake

    Letter from the Editor

    Oct 11, 2019 5 minutes
    — Tom Chamberlin, Editor

    Over the next few weeks there will be another period of collective tension in the U.K. The supposed final furlong before Brexit day on October 31 (or ‘B-day’, if ablution-related humour appeals to your sensibility on this issue) will ensure all sides draw their whips and thrash their horses as desperately as possible, some hoping they were right about the predicted outcome, some wishing they were wrong. I admit that the Brexit debate has forced me into my most stubborn act of fence-sitting since my doctor gave me the choice between a strong suppository or weaker oral painkiller following a nasty boat-propeller injury to my leg when I was seven.

    There are many consolations to being the editor of the world’s finest and most trusted source on all things sartorial and grown-up. On the one hand I can’t

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