Dispatches from a Porch Swing

Dispatches from a Porch Swing

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“It’s just something for me to sit with.”

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Jen Deaderick
Mar 05, 2026
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I am currently sitting in the rotunda of the Bank of England Museum.

My first association when I think of British banks is, of course, Mary Poppins. Dick Van Dyke as the ridiculously old bank chairman wheezing his way through a detailed listings of every project British banks were financing throughout the empire. “Railways through Africa!”

There are a fe…

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