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Banned

  • Writer: John Service
    John Service
  • Jul 19
  • 1 min read


All this hot weather, which is making men wear shorts, says Alexandra Shulman in The Mail on Sunday. “It’s a terrible look.” Shorts are acceptable on holiday, in the garden or on the sports field, but nowhere else. They should be banned on public transport for anyone over the age of 12, of either sex, “particularly on planes”. As for vests, it’s imprisonment. “Even if you’re Harry Styles.”

 
 
 

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