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Modern British dating is a car-crash – and Cilla Black is to blame

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01.06.2026

Who broke Britain? Welcome to The i Paper’s opinion series in which experts and writers debate the issues that concern them about modern Britain. • You won’t know James Bevan, but you should know what he did to this country• Boris Johnson wrecked Britain. But this man left even deeper scars• The arrogant superbanker whose stunning hubris brought Britain to its knees• The hardcore socialist whose ruinous idea is why Liz Truss became PM• The ‘Red Tory’ behind one of the most anti-feminist ideas in British politics• Martin Lewis: the money-saving expert… who accidentally cost Britons billions• The cooking revolutionary who overthrew traditional British dishes

Who broke Britain? Welcome to The i Paper’s opinion series in which experts and writers debate the issues that concern them about modern Britain.

• You won’t know James Bevan, but you should know what he did to this country• Boris Johnson wrecked Britain. But this man left even deeper scars• The arrogant superbanker whose stunning hubris brought Britain to its knees• The hardcore socialist whose ruinous idea is why Liz Truss became PM• The ‘Red Tory’ behind one of the most anti-feminist ideas in British politics• Martin Lewis: the money-saving expert… who accidentally cost Britons billions• The cooking revolutionary who overthrew traditional British dishes

Saturday evening television in the 1990s was a place of sex and violence, of Lycra and bar stools, of visible male nipples and eye-watering innuendo. I am talking, of course, about the iconic line-up of Gladiators, followed by Blind Date. One was a shiny-floor extravaganza of bruising conflict, swaggering ego, wild adrenaline and........

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