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is, for the 17th century worker, an angry badge of working-class status. It had been a builder of morale in household workshops, when they turned into factories in the 1820s, drinking became a darker affair.

Heavy drinking, a feature of Western social life since the introduction of inexpensive distilled spirits in the seventeenth century, became 'an angry badge of workingclass status' (P. Johnson 1978: 60). Why drinking' According to Johnson:The drinking problem of the late 1820s stemmed directly from the new relationship between master and wage earner. Alcohol had been a builder of morale in household workshops, a subtle but pleasant bond between men. But in the 1820s proprietors turned their workshops into little factories, moved their families away from their places of business, and devised standards of discipline, self-control, and domesticity that banned liquor. By default, drinking became part of an autonomous working-class social life and its meaning changed. (P. Johnson 1978: 60)

is the essential element in any great public man or woman.

Courage is the essential element in any great public man or woman. Paul Johnson

is a human device to conceal the horrors of reality.

Euphemism is a human device to conceal the horrors of reality.

is what he is: a man from nowhere, going nowhere, heading for a well-merited obscurity as fast as his mediocre talents can carry him.

John Major is what he is: a man from nowhere, going nowhere, heading for a well-merited obscurity as fast as his mediocre talents can carry him.

is not difficult. It's really nothing other than good manners.

When people talk about political correctness, the only element of any value is good manners. Paul Johnson

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