The prevailing assumption has been that the natural historical trend is leftward
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I started at the word gifting like a horse shying at a plastic bag caught in the hedge. Why didn’t I like it?
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My great-grandfather George’s mother was from the fairground ‘Barkers’
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The fashion industry is as venal and corrupt as, say, the art world
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The lines that now smudge my map look more like the flight of a woozy bluebottle than the traces of a man with a plan
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Vitriolic pamphlets directed against Augustus were initially met with written rebuttals
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