As a young man, magazines were my window to the world. That wonder will be lost when all the shops have gone | John Harris

The closure of former WH Smith stores around the UK is sobering on many levels. The publications they sold were there to be perused, to broaden horizons Towards the end of the 1970s, the brief but spectacular career of those punk rockers and folk devils the Sex Pistols was…

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