It is Wednesday, August 29. It is 9am and I’m stood in a queue that runs the length of an East End market trying to buy the new colour shirts that my daughter has just told me she needs to go into year 9 at her school.
Nice of her to mention this after five weeks of the summer holidays. When there’s one shop that is the only uniform outlet for at least 11 east London secondary schools, their monopoly on the market means that this could take a while. You can do a lot of thinking in a queue that’s this long.
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