My mother is forever telling me to buy a blind for my kitchen. “People can see you!” Yes, passers-by
may watch me frown over the newspapers or note my poor chopping skills, but why should I care?

I never shared this working-class horror of being observed and thus judged, or of strangers “knowing
your business”; I hate the claustrophobia of curtains closed before dusk.
The residents of Neo Bankside, four blocks of glass-fronted luxury apartments next to Tate Modern,
don’t like being seen either, by thousands of visitors to the museum’s 10th floor viewing platform.
But museum director Sir Nicholas…

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