Oasis: the joyous roar of a forgotten people

At Wembley the other week, I and 90,000 others indulged that most lethal of emotions. An emotion so supposedly deadly that entire books have been devoted to examining and dismantling it. Some call it humanity’s ‘dull ache’. Others call it ‘toxic’. Some outright call it ‘dangerous’. And yet there we were, tens of thousands of us, a sea of bucket hats and beers, our throats sore from roaring, our arms flung round perfect strangers, all in the gleeful grip of that most taboo of feelings: nostalgia.

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