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Also the Telegraph

Honestly, fuck those RW papers, they'll never hold a consistent stance if it means they can just be against something.

I wrote a book about this! www.panmacmillan.com/authors/agne...

My point here is not that crime, racism, terrorism, pollution etc were all worse in the 70s but that the period 1973-77 in particular was one of crisis, paranoia and hysteria. People were talking about Britain going bankrupt or collapsing into dictatorship. There was a national nervous breakdown