“I miss the M&S car park”—How the pandemic supercharged Britain’s nostalgia for the ordinary
I thought I’d mourn my long-awaited holiday to the US that was cancelled, but in fact I’ve barely given it a second thought. What I miss are bus stops; crowded shopping malls, and my favourite branches of Boots
February 17, 2021
When I asked about other people’s "Old Normal” fantasies on Twitter recently, more than a thousand replies rolled in—each more romantic than the next. Photo: Prospect Composite
For the past few months I have had a recurrent fantasy about standing in the queue for the toilets at St Pancras station.