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The 2020s will be boring, not roaring

24 July 2021

9:00 AM

24 July 2021

9:00 AM

Earlier this year, I noted the suggestion (made by an American academic and run with by a swathe of the British press) that we may be about to enter a party decade. The claim was that much as the Great War was followed by the Roaring Twenties, so the Covid era might be followed by a roaring 2020s.

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