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Perry Mason personified the country that won World War Two and was enjoying well-deserved prosperity

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The people have a right to know what’s on Boris’s wall

Arbuckle was an accidental pioneer of cancel culture

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Dick loved a friendly contest with the woke and PC crowd of yore

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