We know about the Swinging Sixties. Which way will the twenties swing?
The Trial of Christine Keeler, the BBC television series that started on Sunday evening, provides a fresh interpretation of the Sixties Profumo affair, which convulsed the establishment and came to define an era. The reason we keep returning to the Swinging Sixties is that it was the point of change from which everything then followed. Some see it as a welcome sloughing off of archaic constraints in favour of individual empowerment. Others view it as a loss of moral and cultural compass. Regardless, this upending of the old order had…
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