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    "byline": "Leighton Woodhouse\n             21 Oct 2024 -   9 mins",
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    "excerpt": "The more time you spend in California, the less sense its politics make. It\u2019s progressive, of course. But the style of progressivism in the West Coast is distinct from that in the East, in roughly the same way that Silicon Valley-style capitalism differs from the Wall Street variety. The West Coast species is the cowboy version: more rebellious, less civilised, and also completely incoherent. On the one hand, it\u2019s the same schoolmarmish, nanny-state liberalism you can find in any blue state: bans on plastic straws, quotas for women on corporate boards, mandated gender neutral toy aisles. On the other, it\u2019s the exact inverse: permissiveness verging on criminal negligence.",
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    "title": "California\u2019s woes were born in England The state is torn between clashing Anglo traditions"
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