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How did contemporary culture become so dismal?

22 November 2022

9:41 PM

22 November 2022

9:41 PM

Watching the Christmas John Lewis ad, over and over, I’m struck by how much British life has changed – and not for the better. We’ve all become so tastefully downbeat, introspectively sentimental and utterly lacking in brightness.

In the early 1980s, the big TV advertisement of the Christmas season was for Woolworths.

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