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“For me it’s the clock on the cooker. Twenty-five minutes past eight, etched in stark white.”

GPS and other satellite navigation systems reset their own clocks by touching base with these more accurate clocks on the ground.

But the confessional pop era has a clock on it too.

“But there was always a ticking clock on that intake ban.”

Now Obama’s vice president, Joe Biden, is running out the clock on his presidency, and Trump is returning to power, this time with far more working-class support.