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Punched on TV by an Irish toff: how criticism worked before Taylor Swift, Morrissey and Oasis

Donald Clarke: We’ve reached a bad place if reviewers can’t openly express mixed feelings about a singer’s epic evisceration of recently discarded boyfriends

Taylor Swift: Paste magazine removed the critic's name from its review of The Tortured Poets Department. Photograph: Beth Garrabrant
Taylor Swift: Paste magazine removed the critic's name from its review of The Tortured Poets Department. Photograph: Beth Garrabrant
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