Isn’t it great that we no longer have public beheadings in the UK, as well as having central heated houses and toilet roll and vinyl records and Penicillin? I think so, and I certainly would not like to go back to the many drawbacks of the Before Time, but simultaneously I have noticed progress is a complicated thing: for everything positive it brings i…
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