Turning Transatlantic: BRITISH VOCABULARY BUILDING WITH SQUEEZE

When the British Rail local pulls out of London’s Victoria Station, crosses over the Thames, and 15 minutes later arrives in Clapham Junction, you’ve changed worlds. Instead of the dignified, stately vision of London familiar from spy movies or Masterpiece Theatre, you’re faced with the graying towers of subsidized housing, long bare patches of barren ground, and whatever crumbling pre-war blocks survived the Blitz.