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    Remember the 5th of November

    Oct 20, 2021 3 minutes
    DAVID HORSPOOL

    For hundreds of years, when Britons remembered 5th November, they usually meant at least two significant dates.

    The first was 5th November 1605, the day we still mark with bonfires and fireworks when we’re allowed to (you can have too much liberty, you know). That was the date of Guy Fawkes and co’s failed plot, a deliverance from terrorist evil that provided the pretext for an outpouring of anti-Catholic bigotry tamed only within living memory.

    The second date was 5th November 1688, the

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