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He would be all of three when Bill Haley's kiss curl made a mercifully brief fashion statement. Just four at the time of David Steel's bill on abortion. Going into high school when a Labour prime minister told an American president that Britain wasn't sending any troops to fight a morally dubious war predicated on some highly suspect intelligence, later discredited.
About 12 when The Beatles caused mass teenage heart failure in New York, Tony Blair was never a child of the sixties, but a child in the sixties and therein may lie some of his astounding ignorance about a decade whose merits are still hotly debated three and a half decades after it closed.See the full content of this document
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The Strong Tory Leader in Charge of the Labour Party
He was, however, a tyro politician in the 1980s, a time when the world had discarded peace and love as signature slogans in favour of such socially cohesive pronouncements as greed was good and the communal values of a cohesive society were yesterday's news. Not to put too fine a point on it, Mrs...
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