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Frank Mort: Capital Affairs - London And The Making Of The Permissive Society (Yale, £25)

Morality and hypocrisy rub shoulders in the Soho of the 1950s

Sex, in all its many varieties, is never very far away in central London. Dens of so-called iniquity are only a short walk from the corridors of power and but a stone’s throw from the ­capital’s temples of consumerism.

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