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Hans van Leeuwen

Life in London lockdown: bittersweet, and here to stay

There are small doses of consolation in the new corona-dystopia, but they're diluted by the gradual realisation that social distancing might be here to stay.

London | The gardens of England are going to look particularly pretty this year. On my once-daily permitted outdoor run round a nearby park, I noticed all the garden-waste bins in the leafy, salubrious nearby streets were full to the brim.

A cordoned off picnic table in a south London park. Getty

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Hans van Leeuwen is The Australian Financial Review’s former Europe correspondent. He is now International Economy editor for The Telegraph UK.

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