Pravina Rudra
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Opinion @theipaper . Words in @thetimes & other places, previously columnist & Comment Editor @newstatesman . Also, solo backpacking & (actually) ADHD
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I wrote about Charlotte Proudman: Platitudes which make you want to slow clap & comments about "white men" which expose her own entitlement. The problem with being a parody is that even when you do make a valid point, you can’t be taken seriously.
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Swear to god looking for a flatmate is worse than online dating
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Reporter who can speak 6 languages is reminding me of an icebreaker we did when I started a grad scheme - two truths and a lie. One girl's lie was that she could speak three languages "because I can speak FOUR, hehe" - and that is how I knew very early on that I would dislike her
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I wrote about why women must rise up, as one, to abolish hen weekends. Apart from the reductiveness (women-only!) and weird competitiveness of them, I refuse to spend £400 on a weekend of penis straws and prosecco that largely resembles living in Clapham x
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I'm now Comment Editor
@NewStatesman
(woohoo) and looking for some stellar writers with cheekiness, punchiness and interesting thoughts.
Liberal voices, but also those who can challenge; Established writers, as well as talent that has been flying under the radar.
Email as below:
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The thing about comments from Kirstie Allsopp and Molly-Mae is that they are intended to be empowering - "you can do it if you just try". But they end up being profoundly disempowering, because they deny the truth of people's economic reality, and blame them for it.
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My column in today’s
@thesundaytimes
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I've joined
@theipaper
Opinion desk to edit & write columns. We run columnists like Emily Maitlis, Seb Payne, Katy Balls etc., but generally keen to hear from good writers. Only national paper not to endorse a political party - so, importantly, welcome ideas from across spectrum
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Job news: I'm moving to the
@NewStatesman
to be Comment Editor and a columnist. 🥳 I’ll be continuing my column in the
@EveningStandard
… But I'll be leaving the
@Telegraph
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It’s a tough dilemma what with women still being required to submit to their husband’s sexual fantasies and all in that in 2021 but! Ya know! Just a take
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Asking guys out is wild because you never know whether they’ll have a girlfriend or *checks notes*… erm, pretend to have a girlfriend?!
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Yearly plea for pitches & writers: I'm Comment Editor at
@NewStatesman
and I'm always keen for subversive / punchy / cheeky ideas. I often run short pieces, pegged to the talking points of the day.
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Can someone commission me to write a column on straight men and the Elizabeth Line? From its opening feat the nerdiest gathering ever ⬇️ it’s all they’ve talked about for the last 3 months. I’ve been on a date based around the Elizabeth Line for the sake of a man. Women are TIRED
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🚨🚨Personal news alert: I’m thrilled to be joining the
@Telegraph
as Junior Comment Editor from January. I’ll be continuing my column in the
@EveningStandard
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Actually feel a bit like “oh, hon” for Suella Braverman announcing a leadership bid. Bit like the girl in the class everyone forgets the name of being like “hey! Big party back at mine” on the last day of school, and everyone’s like… sorry, what?!
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Seething about the treatment of Kate Clanchy. Yes, racial tropes matter & her writing may’ve been clumsy. But if society is inherently racist, how can she be cancelled for not being born woke? Somehow that counts for more than what she actually did for young people of colour:
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Since seeing Glass Onion, I’ve been strongly considering sending this to everyone who ever told me they “just tell it like it is”
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@peteneville65
Hi
@peteneville65
, this is a great thread. I'm Comment Editor at the New Statesman, and wondered if you might be interested in us turning this thread into an article? Please do DM me if so, thanks
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Someone come save the Spanish from Dayana’s friend, currently conceding all Iberian stereotypes
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40% of UK students being turned away in favour of international students isn't a positive statistic for diversity. International fees are so high that, generally, only wealthy students can afford them. More than anything, this is bad for social mobility.
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Me on why Rishi Sunak isn’t the UK’s “Obama moment”. He doesn’t offer anything like Obama’s promise of change & hope. The US is primarily divided by race, we’re divided by class-so the victory of a billionaire’s husband can’t be considered against the odds
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New year, new job, unfortunately just same old me though! I’m on pravina.rudra
@telegraph
.co.uk
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For a lot of young & single people, parties are the most fun part of Xmas - I hate how “snogging” (ugh) is portrayed as some sinful indulgence. Our demographic has been told to “do without” for the last two years, because your “household” & family are the only things which count
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My column on Kate Clanchy for
@NewStatesman
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Racism has become black and white - accidentally using the wrong word is equated with engaging in racist abuse. And though society's supposed to be intrinsically racist, she's blamed for not being born woke.
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“The nuclear family is a 20th-century invention & kind of a drag that drained mothers,alienated fathers and traumatised kids who knew they’d never fit the model”.
@DeborahFW
on why the Left understands family more than Giorgia Meloni ever will. No paywall
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Louise has written a very moving piece for us on how No 10’s cheese-and-wine gathering came the day after the socially distanced, ten-person funeral for her 14 year-old son Fred. Not sure any of my words cut it, so maybe have a read:
@dontlookdown_FB
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Me asking why we're not allowed to challenge the idea of plastic surgery being an empowered, feminist choice. Defend Madonna, but don’t pretend men feel anything like the pressure women do to get Botox:
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I got named as one of the UK’s Top 10 Trailblazers on this year’s Influential Neurodivergent Woman list. Srry to be yucky & soft, but wish I could show this to a younger me - even two years ago when I found out I couldn't tolerate ADHD meds, and thought I'd never achieve anything
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Every month I speak to a young journalist of colour who has the experience of only being commissioned by “liberal” editors to talk about racism, or as the “ethnic perspective box” added onto a double page spread by a white journalist and it breaks my heart. (1/5)
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I'm really proud to work somewhere like
@NewStatesman
- a rare place on the left where we espouse liberal values, but aren't afraid to challenge. To this end, I'm launching our new comment section Quickfire today - read us here:
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I wish I and more women were like Boris Johnson and had his whatever-the-opposite-of-impostor-syndrome is. Having faith in myself when literally no-one else in the country does is beyond my wildest dreams.
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I wrote about the rabbit hole of Instagram therapy: Influencers who tell you men aren’t texting back because they’ve got attachment issues; “5 signs you have trauma!” posts. How it makes people pathologise others & feel very snug - but is not real therapy.
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I guess “everyone wear trousers; no skirts” is supposed to come across egalitarian or feminist. But really what it amounts to is saying that “what men wear”, the male option - is the default:
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Please pitch me/introduce yourself on pravina.rudra AT . Dream pitch consists of a sell/topline, a paragraph setting out the idea, incl. the news it's pegged to, and links to previous writing if needed 🙏
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On this
#InternationalWomensDay
- a plea to women writers to keep pitching to me about *everything*. I promise not to pigeonhole you, as has been the vogue among male editors for so long- the narrative that because women write about love or feelings we can't write about politics
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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s piece is everything I feel about my generation right now: we expect a moral purity of others that we could nowhere near muster ourselves
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Handing this baby in today :(
(Pity I didn’t apply my ruthless editing skills and attention to detail to the misspelt name dangling over my tummy during my
@Telegraph
career) (1/3)
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I decided that for Christmas, I would like to be called a murderer on Twitter, so I wrote this: It's not callous to be against another lockdown. It's actually, kind of the reverse.
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Me at 2am at Inferno’s in Clapham, barely able to stand up as I force my phone into the hands of a guy who is clearly uninterested:
"I am on this number and v free": David Cameron's plea to minister to discuss Greensill Capital.
The former PM fired off 68 texts, WhatsApp and emails to Government and Bank of England last year.
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Prevailing feeling from Neil Ferguson to Matt Hancock is - apart from feeling like a mug because I’ve had a total bore of a year because they told me to - is how do these geeky gawky men always PUNCH so much???
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pravina.rudra AT
Pitches most welcome. Also helpful to send me your phone number, as I often commission off the back of something that's just happened. Even better: tell me what you write about, give links to previous writing & your availability.🙏
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Back from the best week of my life in Croatia and bored of commentary about how people wanting to travel during Covid is spoilt - I’ve been able to finally switch off in a way I couldn’t for the last year
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Boris Johnson's resignation speech reflects a fantasy version of his tenure as prime minister, and of himself - by
@PhilipJCollins1
. It wasn't just unrepentant and churlish; no-one would know from listening that his government's left the country in crisis
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Half of Twitter is annoyed at me because I’ve described straight men as nerds, the other half are raging because I *haven’t* described women/queer people as nerds. Can’t believe this site is free.
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About to fly to Rio to see how they do Carnival 🎉 & backpack around Brazil. Out of office on for the next two weeks. See you in March
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My column in this week’s Evening Standard is on entering the pandemic in my early twenties, but somehow exiting it in my late twenties - without feeling I’ve grown up.
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Column in today’s Times on how young people no longer see Harry as progressive. He’s read the Spark Notes on being “woke”, but lacks true introspection wrt racism and the monarchy. He’s also committed the ultimate millennial crime of ruining therapy for us
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I find this vvv snobby. No, I haven’t written for the Mail, but I’ve written for right-wing papers - from Sunday Times to Telegraph, does that mean I’m subverting the cause? Even if it’s “leftie” issues I often draw attention to - uncovering racism, sexism, caste discrimination?
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This. Easiest thing in the world to laugh off silly social events when you had your fun years ago (let’s not forget the 25% of people polled this summer who wanted to close nightclubs permanently, regardless of Covid).
Young people have been sensible, thoughtful and sacrificed so much during the pandemic.
Far too much blame has been directed towards them from people who had all the fun in the world in their younger years.
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"The footage is shocking, not because we don’t imagine senior Tories believe this sort of thing about levelling up - but because we figure most of them know they’re not supposed to say it out loud" -
@JonnElledge
on THAT video of Rishi Sunak. No paywall 🔓
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I wish there was more room in the world for Meghan centrism. The debate around her is a vicious circle - the more awful tabloids are about her, the more she and others portray herself as Christ-like, and the more she is pilloried - every action further entrenches each side.
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The most frustrating thing about my dating life so far is that I’ve never had the guts to say - in response to a date getting minorly upset over something - “Well if you’re like this now, what are you going to be like once the CHILDREN come?” and watch them panic
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Felt all hygge at the prospect of not being allowed outside, snuggling up indoors all day - before I realised that is in fact what I have been doing for the last two years.
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I have met a few contenders in my life, but Prince Harry has the hugest ~public schoolboy dates woman of colour, realises racism exists and wants to tell everyone about it~ energy of anyone I know.
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Why is it old-fashioned to care about the fact it’s an affair, that Hancock has a wife & kids at home? Surely that’s what adds a burning layer to all the hypocrisy. I have young, “liberal” views on relationships and I still think being cheated on would be my worst nightmare
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Great piece by
@Otto_English
- on why we shouldn’t just support victims of war because they “seem like us”, are “civilised” - or, erm, have Netflix:
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Outrageous the Guardian gets away with publishing such a scathing obituary of someone who died so young. The Telegraph would (rightly) never get away with poor taste like this
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I have shared this Dolly Alderton passage on more group chats than any other quote in my life. I love being single but I do find it ugh when on the 1% of dates where you have chemistry, the guy goes all funny or ghosts you afterwards: (1/2)
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Bit taboo to tell a load of journalists I used to hate books - but I did, and I blame Amazon, ADHD and pretentious literary types. The thing that changed things for me was the kind souls in my local bookshop
@BookBarUK
- and I wrote about it here:
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How dare he talk about it as though it were some fairytale, valiant transgression of society's norms in the name of 🌈love🌟
He broke rules *he* imposed on everyone else in order to *cheat on his wife*. Wearing a turtleneck doesn't change the optics, Matt.
Matt Hancock claims ‘I broke rules because I fell in love’ after Gina Colangelo affair
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I wrote about the weirdness of liberal young women - including me - trying to justify their prejudice against short men, how dating apps make us want 7 foot guys - and whether “short man syndrome” is really society’s syndrome.
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Can you tell at a glance what proportion of the cabinet had free school meals? My column on why we always forget about class background when it comes to diversity - feat. some striking stats from
@suttontrust
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No paywall 🔓
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This week I did a Sound of Music cycling tour in Salzburg. And while that might sound uncool, consider that they played the soundtrack out loud as we cycled between film locations - which is imo so uncool that it goes full circle and is ultimately cool. (Video below.)
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Me in today’s Times Magazine talking about why looking for a flatmate on Spareroom and trying to spot red flags is even harder than on dating apps. And actually, why flat viewings might be a better way to meet someone than Hinge…
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I wrote about why millennial women like me think that straight men punch above their weight in dating ~She’s everything. He’s just Ken~ etc. And why we are wrong:
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Like is it the case that we all have unconscious bias, need to learn, and therefore we cannot condemn people who misspeak into the fiery pits of hell?
Or is it the case that structural racism isn’t a thing, that we must all be purer than pure.
Someone, please, tell me which!
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Particularly keen for writers who are sceptical, thoughtful & don’t fall into predictable camps on culture wars - but not contrarian for the sake of it. Recommendations welcome. I'm on pravina.rudra[at] .
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Love this on the narcissism of modern weddings by
@giles_fraser
. I'm deeply atheist and if I get married, would probably have a trashy modern wedding that's "me, me, me". But I'm enticed by this argument, and deeply into weddings in a church, anchored by some reference to God.
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I realise something at the intersection of trains and mechanics entering the popular consciousness is hard to ignore, dudes. But please, I am now terrifyingly aware of i) the intricacies of the Elizabeth Line ii) what nerds my guy friends / prospective dates are.
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I wrote about wanting a place for centrism over Meghan - and how the debate around her represents a wider generational divide:
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Life update I’ve neglected to tell Twitter about: I’m currently solo backpacking around South America. Next chapter starts in June, see you then 👋
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I wrote about the weirdness of going to my high school reunion, how constraining the need to be cool is, and the beauty of seeing people - including myself - reinvent themselves after leaving school. Free to read 🔓
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Off to backpack around India for a couple of weeks. Haven’t booked a thing except my flights, and it’s the best feeling in the world to know I’m in for a fortnight of spontaneity. On which note, I’ll be offline - bye x
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I wrote about why we are lying to ourselves when we make Fiona Bruce a scapegoat for the awkward fact we don’t understand how stringent media law is. And how our righteous anger over domestic abuse is being misdirected - away from Stanley Johnson.
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Thinking a lot about
@matthewsyed
‘s column this week. Feels tragic we have got to this place:
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“BE KIND” is always used by the people who are the least kind. People who I recall being pretty bitchy at school have it on their Insta bios. People who bully others say it when they’re pulled up on their behaviour. We have to “be kind” to make up for their lack of kindness...
Amazing - for some reason this influencer has agreed to be interviewed about why she’s in Dubai while everyone else is stuck at home.
Her response is: “In a world where you can be anything, be kind”.
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Words people need to stop chucking into conversation unthinkingly: toxic, capitalism, gaslighting, patriarchy.
They’re important words but are becoming devalued - and risk losing all currency for when we need them most.
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It's not that if you possess privilege you shouldn't speak on a matter, or that you can't give advice. But you should at least be self-reflective, and consider whether you really, truly, can speak for everyone's experience - as well as your own.
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In today’s paper, I wrote about how - as someone who’s fairly “woke” - I’m genuinely upset by the cancel culture among people my age. It’s totally self-defeating.
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because they didn’t really think about the fact I was Asian (also, benefits of a CV-blind internship scheme). I do think it’s an area where some liberal publications have something to learn from conservative ones. (4/5)
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I wrote about the joy of seeing myself on a show that is utterly ludicrous, rather than an "authentic" period drama which would only feature Asian women as oppressed maids, or victims of racism. For
@NewStatesman
, no paywall.
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I'm on the front page of today's Evening Standard next to Taylor Swift - you'll never guess which one of us is talking about bubbling with our ex
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As Comment Editor at the New Statesman, can confirm that’s our editorial policy: Liberalism = no houses older than 1960
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Not sure why: “never kissed a Tory” is a boast / putting “Liberal” on your Hinge is now a prerequisite / people fill dating app prompts with throwaway digs at capitalism. In my experience, guys who are overly vocal about their pretensions to feminism treat women the worst 🤷🏽♀️
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I wrote about how everyone thinks they have ADHD, and how annoying that is for people who actually have ADHD. If everyone has ADHD, then no-one does.
No paywall 🔓. Also in this week’s magazine
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I don’t like being 26 but then realised I can do this two times more and THEN become US president like 78-year old Biden so all good now
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It can be true both that a comment wasn’t intended as racist & that it was very racist. That’s sort of the point of institutional racism-it’s unconscious, but everywhere. And why the “but she’s 83” and “one bad apple, get rid of her” responses to Lady Hussey are equally unhelpful
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I’m Junior Comment Editor
@Telegraph
(which means I work on the Comment section, not that I edit readers’ comments). Please do get in touch for all things Comment/Opinion-related
New year, new job, unfortunately just same old me though! I’m on pravina.rudra
@telegraph
.co.uk
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