I’ve lived and worked in the Cambridge area for four decades or so, and for the first time, I feel deeply ashamed of the city I have grown to love, and anxious about its future. My younger brother had come down from the North East to visit me, and we decided to drive into Cambridge and spend an afternoon wandering around its lovely central streets while we caught up with what has been happening in our lives. It’s not often that we’re able to meet up, so the rendezvous was something we’d both been really looking forward to. I parked my car in The Grafton West car park, and we set off, first int…
