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    Dancing to their tune

    Nov 03, 2020 3 minutes

    I am not yet skint but semi-retirement’s prompted me to look a little closer at my outgoings on the ‘must have’ stuff I once thought important.

    For a start, do I need a non-essential TV licence or daily newspaper for entertainment and information today, when there’s Netflix and a radio to turn to? Just think, flicking two fingers at the BBC will save £157.50 and interminable repeats in an instant. Goodbye Bake Off, Gary Lineker, Chris Packham and Strictly Come Dancing.

    Strictly? In the good old days this unpretentious, gently paced piece of

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