2026-03-20
If we today were to choose to bring up kids as they did in my day we would be charged with child neglect.
But the policemen wore proper uniforms and walked the beat (unless they were CID) and the Territorial Support Unit hadn't been invented. Nor had those stupid passenger doors on buses, and I don't remember anyone ever falling off the rear platform ...
Battersea Power Station generated electricity from British coal mines, which also provided coal for household heating and coal-gas for cooking and water heaters. The smog in London could be a pea-souper, until the Clean Air Acts (1956, 1968) made us burn "smokeless" fuel in our hearths in place of smoky old coal. But it was our coal, not oil from the Gulf.
Yet somehow the great Global Warming Catastrophe wasn't a thing until Al Gore and the Club of Rome met to invent it decades later as a mind-virus to poison our thinking.
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