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Is what Conor Burns did really so appalling?

15 October 2022

9:00 AM

15 October 2022

9:00 AM

There are times when I feel like certain rakes must have done when they realised that the Regency period was suddenly morphing into the Victorian one. Not that I feel especially rakish. Just that there are times when you see the new rules of sex and think: ‘Well, I guess there’ll be none of that from now on.

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