The Daily Telegraph

Aestival festivals

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People who use social media were shocked (or in some cases, no doubt, entertaine­d) by footage of a fat man wearing no shirt involved in a brawl at Royal Ascot. Yet 70,000 were at the race meeting, all but a few unaware that any fracas occurred. Ascot is a stylish venue, but any horse race is deeply democratic, popular with all classes. The wonder is that a good time is had by all, and prodigious amounts of drink taken, with scarcely a policeman to be seen. The same is true of Henley Royal Regatta or the rather different annual landmark of Glastonbur­y, where 135,000 lovers of the loud attract little attention from the custodians of the law. Goodness knows, the police have had a hard time of it in recent weeks. Happily though, we British are seldom so peaceably engaged as in enjoying the social events of summer.

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