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And I did see straight away why it matters. “Even if you just read the first chapter, please, I promise, you will see straight away why it matters.”Ī few days later, I did read the first chapter. Promise.”Īt the back of my mind was the pile of unread books by my bed. “Okay,” I said, taking the book, and looking at the cover. “But, more importantly, if you don’t read this book, you won’t fully understand why Brexit is happening.” “I promise you won’t regret it,” he said. I was still working out whether to switch into the polite-fob-off mode that anyone with a public profile has to deploy from time to time. “But,” – now he was rummaging into a backpack that he had slung forward from his shoulders, and produced a dog-eared book – “if I give you this book, do you promise me you will read it?” He apologised for shouting, apologised for stopping me, and thanked me for campaigning against Brexit. He did not have the Ancient Mariner’s long grey beard, but he did have a glistening eye. The shouting became louder, came closer, and, eventually, there he was, out of breath, his face creased with the look of a man who was definitely on a mission. He chased me down the platform, calling my name – “Mr Campbell! Mr Campbell!” – but as I turned, I couldn’t see where the voice was coming from, so carried on towards the ticket barrier. But my 2018 Mariner was not a man to be ignored. Britain was in the middle of a heatwave, I had spent the day at a football coaches’ seminar in the Midlands, and was keen to get home.

The sovereign individual william rees mogg