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3 days ago

In 2026, remember this: Britain is much better than it was in so many ways. Don't swallow the right's lies | John Harris

Casual, overt racism and visible National Front sympathies permeated a Cheshire comprehensive school environment in the early-to-mid-1980s.
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2 weeks ago

My weirdest Christmas: I tried to catch out Santa with a whoopee cushion but the Big Man outwitted me

An eight-year-old twin devises a clever, mischievous plan using a whoopee cushion and a toy camera to prove Father Christmas's existence on Christmas Eve 1987.
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3 months ago

Absolutely divine!' How Jilly Cooper changed the world one bonkbuster at a time

But that's a sidebar what was striking about seeing Rivals as a box set was how well Cooper's universe had aged. The chronicles distilled the 80s: the shoulder pads and puffball skirts; the obsession with class, aristocrats sneering at the Technicolored nouveau riche, both ignoring everyone else while they snipped about how warm their champagne was; the sexual politics, with harassment and assault so routine they were practically characters in their own right, a double act you could trust to move the plot along.
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