It’s odd, when I think about it, how, on one level, nothing has changed since last week. Things still feel as they did: i still go about my business here in charlton.

Today I helped at radio club at school, and went up to b and q for varnish. Apart from the unusually clement weather, South london is the same as is it ever was. Yet the moment I turn on the news or check a news website, I see that everything is different. Every draconian statement our new government make, every attack on the BBC or infringement of free speech, makes the feeling that something is not right deeper, I know it’s only a new government, but we have five years of this to put up with, and it has barely began. We just have to cling to the things they cannot change.