He stopped the brougham at Hyde Park Corner, alighted and never saw her again.

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The usual 15-minute journey south of the River Thames took more than two hours because of the burst main at Hyde Park corner.

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Although most of the bill is composed of boring technical language about the size of fines and the responsibilities of various parties, one section contains an interesting provision about the creation of designated protest and free speech areas much like Hyde Park corner in London.

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Perhaps that is what being a great parliamentarian amounts to: a rather grander version of the soap-box orators at Hyde Park's Speakers' Corner, whose fulmination is not closely listened to but whose mere presence is supposed to reassure onlookers that all is well with democracy.

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The heated debates have spilled over onto the pavement outside the coffee shop, which now resembles Speakers' Corner in London's Hyde Park.

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