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Back to basics: euphoria and reaction in the ’90s
John Major’s moral crusade running aground defined the decade, but Labour’s ship had already taken on too much stagnant water, writes SOLOMON HUGHES
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PEOPLE say to me: “Hey, older guy who had your finger on the pulse once. What happened in the 1990s? Was it all grunge and flannel shirts? Or flappy jeans and baggy tops and Madchester and the house music? Or did Britpop sweep all that away?”

And I say: “Yes, it was all those things. Wide eyes under Kangol hats, then boozed up nights in the Good Mixer. Ladettes and irony and Cool Britannia and Girl Power all entranced the nation.”

There was enough to fill dozens of cheap It Was All Right in the ’90s TV shows.

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