Waiting on platform 1 for a London bound train. A couple standing nearby engage in voluble debate about the issue of housing. A very metropolitan conversation as the words ‘social cleansing’, ‘the Chinese’ and (namecheck) ‘Heygate Estate’ crop up in the course of this public grandstanding. The few fellow passengers dotted around simply embrace the drab post-Boxing Day weather, perhaps preoccupied with matters more close to home.