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Jackboots of the Joke Squad

Couldn’t we just defund the humour police?

4 July 2020

9:00 AM

4 July 2020

9:00 AM

It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious,’ says Lord Darlington in Oscar Wilde’s Lady Windemere’s Fan first performed in 1892. A century later, a pandemic of tediosity has followed in the wake of the Wuhan virus that shows no signs of abating.

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