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Mark Mason

London, Suffolk
As seen in: The Spectator, Daily Mail, Irish Daily Mail, Scottish Daily Mail, The Mail on Sunday, This is Money, Boat International, The Spectator (World), The Spectator Australia
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The pernicious rise of the Fake Fuzz

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By Mark Mason
| The Spectator Australia Verified
The Harrow Council ‘enforcement officers’ might have been more extreme in their language than other members of the Fake Fuzz, but their arrogance was entirely typical. Uniformed security guards are appearing everywhere. Shops, pubs, train carriages – the wannabe rozzers are there, in your face, vests bulging, walkie-talkies at the ready. They glower and loom, filling your day with bad vibes and absurd rules.
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How the Northern line brought T.E. Lawrence to The Spectator

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By Mark Mason
| The Spectator Australia Verified
If only the Northern line could get its act together. Last week saw further buffing of its reputation as the ‘Misery line’, with signalling problems that disrupted journeys for days and kept engineers baffled. But it could all be so different.
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The joy of guided walks

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By Mark Mason
| The Spectator Australia Verified
‘You should be pointing at things with an umbrella for a living,’ said my brother. He’d come to visit me in London and we’d been wandering the West End. The rain never appeared, but my umbrella seemed a natural implement with which to indicate the sights we passed. The Odeon Leicester Square, for instance, where I told Steve the story about Michael Caine (born Maurice Micklewhite) choosing his new surname: the cinema had been showing The Caine Mutiny.
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