I’d forgotten about mortgages, strikes and the soaring cost of living

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I’d forgotten about mortgages, strikes and the soaring cost of living
‘You lot go without me. I’d forgotten about mortgages, strikes and the soaring cost of living.’

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Do you know what an anachronism is? They’re very clear in cultural terms: Shakespeare’s clocks in Julius Caesar, for example. But in historical terms, it’s a different matter. When His Majesty King Charles III was crowned, the online scoffers were quick to mobilise themselves. One enthusiastic Jacobin tweeted that the enthroned, orbed and sceptred sovereign

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