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I noticed on an atlas the other day that just outside Reno there’s a town called Sparks.

It didn’t say how big it was.

Fighting with your sexuality is a bit different from wrestling with it or struggling with it. Many people wrestle with their consciences and struggle with maths. Consciences and maths are themselves at least neutral, if not actually splendid things we couldn’t do without.

We all know that the Daily Mail partitions the universe into things that cause cancer and things that prevent cancer. But what sort of a thing is cancer? One way of investigating this is to look at things which they talk about in the same way as cancer. Crispin Blunt, according to today’s edition, had had a thirty year fight with his sexuality. Gayness, obesity, the Taliban, cancer. There must be more.

Pimm’s is the quickest way out of Grantchester.