- Nature, Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882).
2. It was her finest hour. In the kitchen of the little restaurant called Nutshell that she had fashioned with her own toil and sweat, squatter Arabella Churchill Barton, 27, granddaughter of Winston Churchill, went about her business as usual. (“The maxim of the British people is ‘Business as usual’,” her grandfather once said.) Outside, the enemy—the Greater London Council—marshaled its vastly superior forces. The council plans to redevelop the decaying neighborhood, Bristol Gardens, and takes a dim view of squatters—people who move in and take over empty premises.
“I will fight any eviction proceedings,” said the former debutante and half sister of Conservative M.P. Winston Churchill (their father was the prime minister’s son Randolph, who died in 1968), after the council applied to county court for a possession order. “It annoys me that the council can spend money and employ staff to try to create communities,” she says, “but when they find one running without their help they try to stamp it out.”
Squatters—there are now an estimated 25,000 in London—are of two kinds, those who can’t afford any other housing and those who squat on principle. Arabella, who is married to but living apart from James Barton, a Welsh sheep farmer, is the second kind. With a $320 gift from her mother and the help of four friends, she fixed up the Victorian terrace house in north London. Then with her 3-year-old son, Jason, she moved into rooms above the restaurant in October.
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