Music festivals are an essential part of an English summer. People arrive, set up their campsites, lay down their blankets, and quickly visit a nearby tent for beer or tayberry ice cream. It’s ritualized and relaxed, but also an apolitical contrast to 1.2 million people [RETURN TO ARTICLE]
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