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310. Storm Jacqui

Where Politics Meets History

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We're All So Wounded Now, Aren't We?

In 19 59, roy jenkins introduced a members bill to reform the officielly obscene publications act. In 19 60, penguin books were taken to court by the government under the obscene publication act. And yet, lady chatterlee's lover is on the school curriculum, which was actually bad. We've got to a point in our history where we worry about offending somebody with anarexia by putting a word that they might find upsetting in a book.

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