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Pop Up

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We live in a pop-up world. Pop-up restaurants, pop-up shops, pop-up furniture, pop-up houses, pop-up jobs, pop-up lives. We all have our fleeting moment to shine, before the page starts to turn and we fold, ready for the next generation to pop-up in our place. But what if we don’t shine? At some point, even the most influential people in history like Caesar, Shakespeare, Lincoln, Einstein will be completely forgotten.  What chance have I got? I doubt I’d ever make as much of an impact on society as, say, Jedward. My time’s running out and I’m staring on slack-jawed, like a medieval serf transported to the modern day and asked to pilot a fighter jet. Things are changing too fast for me to keep up. Things are grittier, more impersonal. I wanted to get back to the things I enjoyed as a kid, but even my favourite kids shows have been updated to reflect our brave new harsher world: Postman Pat’s on a zero-hours contract with Deliveroo, Fireman Sam’s striking about unsafe publ