I feel like Guardian articles beginning like this are maybe not establishing the writer's socialist credentials as a hard-working representative of the people, sharing the common daily struggles of ordinary folks, as the writer perhaps thinks
https://www.theguardian.com/money/2021/mar/22/bike-poland-brexit-customs-duty-vat
<< I find myself in a Kafkaesque situation as a result of Brexit. I decided, over Christmas, to treat myself to a new £5,000 racing bicycle, but the only place I could source it was a shop in Poland. >>
Oh. That's very sad, yes.
@jautero
Not EVERY Guardian reader is Thomas Friedman wearing a false moustache though!
I mean surely not
Presumably not
I assumed
well, it's just not economically efficient for him to spend his time doing that!
is it?