I did not quite see Narnia the Welfare State born, but it looks as though I may see it die.
As a historian I can see that things do sometimes change in unpredictable ways and directions no-one had anticipated; but possibly I have the optimism of someone of that generation of my gender and class, for whom life was pretty much getting better as we grew up.
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