26-05-2025
Dark forces and railways are shutting out our light
T he windows were dirty, so they had to go. They couldn't reasonably be smashed or painted with biblical scenes in stained glass. What else were the station managers meant to do? They covered them up, of course, with sticky paper. It's what I do when my kitchen is grimy. I wrap it up in masking tape.
All right, I don't, but we can safely assume the station managers at Waterloo do, given that commuters arrived at the start of last week to find the windows of the footbridge from Waterloo to Waterloo East had been papered over, replacing the natural light with the gloomy hue of total and utter mediocrity. After a call from a Times colleague, the covers were hastily peeled off, but not before disgruntled staff told commuters the reason: cleaning the windows would be too expensive.
