Our appetite for alarm

Jonathan Calder recommends Matthew Parris’s A-Z of scare stories:

Video Nasties. Tremendous alarm about these in the 1980s, leading to fairly pointless legislation on certification. The replacement of videotape with DVDs has robbed headline writers of a slick hyphenation opportunity.

I can’t comment on the cider, though.

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