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Even a buzzard gags sometimes. No they're not and you'll never make me say they are. Man. Abolitionist. Invidia rumpuntur aves neque noctua curat.

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2 years
Remember, the clocks go forward tonight! Except in New Zealand, where they've already gone back to Salem, 1692.
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A Yazidi woman, a Uighur woman and a Rohingya woman go into an emergency medical centre. "Isn't it dreadful about that genocide in the UK?" asks one. "What genocide is that?" "You know, the one involving men having to cycle against other men instead of women".
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JK Rowling really is the Universe Empress of Not Giving A Single Solitary Fuck. It's marvellous to see.
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2 years
@HalifaxBank @WarrenRichman If you strive for equality and doing what's right, why do you have a pay gap between male and female staff of 27.8%, around twice the national average?
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At HBOS PLC, women's median hourly pay is 27.8% lower than men's, an increase of 0.2 percentage points since the previous year
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Graham Norton just shouted "he's done it" when Switzerland won Eurovision. I rest my case.
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Reminder for Scottish readers. The clocks go forward by one hour tonight then go back 500 years on Monday.
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3 years
2021 going down in flames with the final message "Don't misgender dog-fuckers, you bigots".
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One of the many reasons I'm going to miss Hilary Mantel.
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A society where only 2% of rapes are prosecuted but the police will arrest you promptly if a man complains you didn't call him woman on the internet. That's a society based on structural misogyny.
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3 years
I've seen Owen Jones claim that people only accuse him of being a misogynist because he "supports trans rights". In reality, he only "supports trans rights" because he's a misogynist. #OwenJonesIsAMisogynist
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1 year
A national debate about exactly *when* it's OK to punch women in the face, and exactly *which* women it's OK to punch in the face, just about sums up the point the men's rights counter-revolution has reached in 2023.
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3 years
Nobody seemed to have much trouble defining what a woman is before so many men wanted to be one.
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Dr Hilary Cass, consultant paediatrician and former President of the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health, or Billy Bragg, Kajagoogoo-level minor 1980s pop star. Who to believe about puberty blockers?
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@WesleyAntonyD There was plenty of data. Unfortunately the Cass Report discarded huge amounts of medical evidence, both from the UK and across the world. Out of 102 studies into puberty blockers and hormones, only 2 were included by the Cass Review team.
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A classic twitter interaction. Two of the world's most notable women and a bearded dick called Richard.
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If men aged 18 to 50 were banned from drinking alcohol would the number of lives saved and injuries prevented be greater or smaller than if women aged 18 to 50 were banned from drinking alcohol?
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Where are all the feminists?
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NASA is monitoring an asteroid that could collide with Earth on Valentine's Day in 2046. A '1 in 400' chance.
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A straight man and a straight woman trying to shut down the UK's only specific LGB charity is homophobia pure and simple.
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Traditional British blessing: "May all your enemies take legal advice from the Good Law Project".
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Mumsnet. Actual scenes.
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I wonder what stories lie behind this admirably firm policy ...
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3 years
Guess what the transphobic term was? "Women"
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Grim to hear @BBC6Music using transphobic terms on the radio this morning. I think we all assumed it was a LGBTQ+ safe haven from the rest of the BBC, turns out not 😢
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Happy birthday you absolute ledge.
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The smugness of having cast my vote for Rosie Duffield.
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Who'd have thought that inventing a new movement that encourages angry inadequate men to shout at women while feeling righteous about it would prove so popular?
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Today's particular pleasure is having punk youthsplained to me by a parcel of pious conformist newborns who would probably have been Leo Sayer fans if they'd been around in 1977.
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@jk_rowling Doing more to stand up for abused women than all the political parties in the UK. Thank god for you. Shame on them.
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Twenty million Afghan women now live daily in a never-ending hell. But let's talk about the oppression of men in dresses in the home counties.
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1 year
I'm 61. 43 years into adulthood, nothing will ever make me believe that standing up for women's rights is right wing. Or that anyone doesn't really know who men or wonen are. Or that the preoccupations of bourgeois youth are anything but the evanescent wank of the privileged.
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"No no, don't you see? *Our* vile misogynistic abuse of JK Rowling is good vile misogynistic abuse. The Sun's vile misogynistic abuse of JK Rowling is bad vile misogynistic abuse."
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So let me tell you how you're controlled by a mysterious right-wing thinktank ...
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If being within half a mile of a JK Rowling book or people discussing biological sex makes you feel "unsafe", what words do you have left to describe the situation of women and girls in the face of the male violence pandemic?
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I have no idea what parenting arrangements Owen Jones has in mind. The reason I'm mocking him is that for years he's argued that being a woman or lesbian is a matter of self-identification. But the minute he needs someone to provide large gametes, he knows exactly who has them.
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Historical note: the Royal Society didn't allow women to join for its first 185 years.
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For #TransAwarenessWeek , head to our blog as Dr Clara Barker reflects on the intersection of science, identity, and the influence of anti-science rhetoric on both: @ClaraMBarker
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Róisín is one of many in the queue for an apology from the Guardian and others.
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Róisín Murphy: Hit Parade review – a masterful album with an ugly stain
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@GoldsmithsSU I think you've mistaken it for This Girl Can Fuck Off To The Back Of The Queue And Make Way For A Male Cheat week.
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"You can't dance on the telly if you share the views of 96% of the population" seems a little restrictive.
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When I see someone I admire has developed bio pronouns, it's a bit like hearing someone's become religious. A little bit of my respect dies.
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As a teenager 40 years ago, I regularly got beaten up for wearing make-up and jewelry and dyeing my hair. I didn't realise that was a brilliant result compared with being castrated.
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Here's are some lovely, compassionate and entirely sane responses to the death of a much-loved actor.
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"Comply with my demands or the children will die" is pretty much abusive male 101.
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Has anyone seen a coherent argument as to why supporting trans rights activism is left wing and opposing it is right wing? I mean a substantive argument rather than "nazis agree with you" guilt by association bollocks. Because a lifetime on the left tells me the opposite is true.
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Playing the organ with his penis Mocking my life with his words Killing me softly with his schlong
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Imagine joining a protection racket, following the rules slavishly, but finding out that in the end there's no protection, your reputation's trashed, your bank account's empty and the racketeers just walk away saying "nothing to do with us, guv".
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Alert. Twitter's most stupid gotcha has escaped captivity and has been spotted in the wild. This is not a drill.
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20,000 of us demonstrated against Section 28 that day. And not a single one of us incited people to punch women. Spot the difference.
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#OtD 20 Feb 1988 20k people in Manchester marched against Margaret Thatcher's homophobic section 28 law, which made it illegal for public bodies to "promote" homosexuality, including teaching its "acceptability" in school
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In the social justice system, misgendering offences against nonces are considered especially heinous. In the Sussex Police, the dedicated social media interns who investigate these vicious felonies are members of an elite squad known as the Special Gaslighting Unit.
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Emma Hilton is getting shit from every side at the moment. We owe her so much for the knowledge and rigour she brings. She doesn't need to go through all this. She does so because she believes in science and fairness. Thank you.
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With lesbians being denied freedom of association, forced underground and having their sexual orientation virtually criminalised, you'd think one of those large, publicly subsidised "LGBT" charities would be all over it. Yet ...
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Crazy idea. There may be room for a political party that doesn't hate women and working class people.
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I'm an oldish bloke living in the UK. Today I walked the dog, cooked a Lancashire hotpot, despised modern football etc ... all the normal stuff. But the brilliant beautiful bravery of Spanish feminists actually brought a tear to my eye. What an inspiration. We can win.
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A lot of our German friends fighting back against self-ID today. Solidarity #MehrBrutaleWahrheit
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Posh kids creating unpleasant cleaning tasks for minimum wage workers never goes out of fashion.
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BREAKING: CUNT ON QUEEN VIC- THIS IS RIGGED POUR JAM N PORRIDGE ON QUEEN VIC'S HEID, SPRAYPAINT CUNT ON PLINTH
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Frankly, if I were JK Rowling, spending 70 grand to piss off Aidan Comerford would be cheap at twice the price.
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Gender is to sex what astrology is to astronomy.
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Posh kids creating unpleasant cleaning tasks for minimum wage workers seems to be 2022's protest fashion.
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Milk Pours are currently happening across the UK. All are concerned individuals calling on the government to give us a livable future, a #PlantBasedFuture Here's the latest milk pour happening in Edinburgh @waitrose
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I think something's changing. By messing so egregiously with JKR the genderterrorists have overplayed their hand. Twitter's full of newly aware people. Even a non-leaguer like me has put on hundreds of followers in a few days. Game on.
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Lest we forget that hating women is in Oxfam's DNA.
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It tells you all you need to know that Róisín Murphy's career is threatened because she raised some concerns about children being given inappropriate medication while Billy Bragg gloats over women being harassed and is still the darling of the cloth-eared bien-pensant bourgeoisie
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@billybragg I think Billy is exactly the kind of credulous westerner that Putin was trying to manipulate. You've got to hand it to him, old Vlad's pretty good at this.
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A timely reminder that the weather is transphobic.
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I suspect we won't be instructed to centre transmen on International Men's Day
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The sheer bloody bravery of Joanna, standing alone and defiant among benches emptied by cowards to speak the truth.
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A woman was stopped from entering Holyrood for wearing a small Scottish Lesbians badge. I'm wearing that same badge today in solidarity with Scottish Lesbians, an excellent lesbian grassroots collective. Joanna Cherry KC #LesbianVisibilityWeek @ScotLesbians @joannaccherry
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If Jolyon loved himself any more he'd be arrested for lewd behaviour in a public place.
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A few months ago, my demented mother asked a care worker whether she was married. When she replied "no", my mum said "I'm not surprised". The carer thought it was funny. Because she understood dementia and put the ill person's welfare first.
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How rapists feel and think about themselves means less than nothing to me.
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Nobody bar a tiny handful of anime-addled teenage eejits actually believes that transwomen are women. But millions are prepared to lie. Is there any precedent outside a theocracy?
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I just noticed that Jonathan Liew has been well and truly community noted.
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Forcing Galileo out of the academy didn't stop the earth orbiting the sun. It just made fanatics happier. Until they became figures of contempt.
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As realisation spreads that the Emperor has no clothes, the panic and rage in the Guild of Weavers of Fictitious Fabrics and among Professors of Imaginary Textile Studies as redundancy looms are something to see.
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A Nobel Prize-winning biologist having to state clearly that there are only two human sexes is like a Nobel Prize-winning astronomer having to clarify that the earth orbits the sun. It should be unnecessary but we're grateful that she has because we live in the age of unreason.
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If I say I'm a woman it doesn't reduce my chances of going bald or getting prostate cancer. But some think it reduces the likelihood I'll engage in sexual violence against women and girls. Magical thinking.
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40 years ago I was snorting cocaine from Marc Almond's belly button with Steve Strange holding my pint while Pepsi & Shirlie were slipping into something a little less comfortable in the boudoir. Today I've moved to the seaside and downloaded an app to identify merchant shipping.
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Apparently, saying you see a man in this photo gets you banned from twitter.
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When I was an anti-fascist activist, it meant the risk of getting the shit kicked out of you by actual fascists. Now it means pretending some middle-aged women are fascists so you can posture and LARP risk-free while working out your mummy issues.
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If you want to know which way the wind is blowing, Wes Streeting is a reliable weathercock. I foresee many more Labour MPs claiming they were principled TERFs all along as they frantically delete.
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I'm calling it. We're living through The Great Gaslighting or Misogycene epoch. The period in the early 21st century when the dominant mammalian species became convinced it had more than two sexes while banning one of the two actual sexes from naming itself.
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When "outrage" means "widespread admiration and support". JK Rowling sparks outrage for refusal to call transgender killer a 'woman' via @MetroUK
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A friend of mine who's a senior public sector trade union official was telling me tonight about how much time and effort they have to spend on appeasing the identity obsessions of younger, graduate members rather than members' jobs, pay and conditions. Luxury beliefs
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Guardian editorial decision-making: shall we include probably the world's most famous and best-selling author? Or Conor McGinn?
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"Can I offer you a tampon, miss? Go on. Fresh pack."
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Certain parties seem to be shitting the bed because the EHRC has disrupted their long-running campaign to obscure the fact that there are nine protected characteristics under the Equality Act and not just one.
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My nearest place for a tin of paint. And they haven't announced publicly that they think I'm a bigot. Yet.
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Trans right activism UK 2021 in a nutshell (outside #FiLiA2021 today). This is the bottom line. If you support this you support a violent movement for men's sexual rights.
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I'd never heard of that James Max bloke two days ago. Now I think he's one of the UK's leading tossers. That's some going.
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If there's a zoology department at a university that keeps spiders for research, and knowing this makes arachnophobic students feel unsafe, should the university get rid of the spiders?
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A short sport history: Men wouldn't let women play competitive sport. Women set up their own independent competitions and structures, and they thrived. Their organisations were then merged with/subsumed by the men's associations. Now women have to let men into their competitions.
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Clue in today's Guardian Sy crossword: "term for people whose gender identity matches their sex assigned at birth". Can anyone help? Only 3 letters so "'gaslighting bollocks" won't fit.
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@pdkmitchell "I've found a way of expressing my hatred of women while feeling virtuous about it. Thank you Manchester!"
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Three-quarters of a century of international human rights law has fought to guarantee us freedom *of* belief. Now a tax lawyer wants to undermine that by protecting people *from* beliefs. Not from their expression but from the beliefs themselves.
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When young and in Manchester, things I protested against: the NF; the BM; Section 28; apartheid; the crushing of the miners; police brutality; nuclear weapons; deportations; troops in Ireland. Things I never dreamt I'd protest against: women meeting to discuss their rights.
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I had a fairly hectic sex life last century/millennium and the idea of choking women was to the best of my knowledge never even mentioned. Where did this come from?
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Remember, there's no Russell Davies without the T.
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After the Charlie Hebdo massacre, my first thought was for the suffering of Danny Ia Rue.
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Billy Bragg doesn't always wear the same clothes. What a monster.
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What?? Louise Distras hates trans people so much that she’s willing to dress in a style acceptable to Daily Mail readers in order to have a go at them. What does this have to do with feminism Louise? Or punk rock?
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BBC Newsnight just now: "JK Rowling was attacked for her stance on transgender rights after she published a blog arguing that gender was determined by biology". Our national broadcaster's flagship news analysis programme.
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Rave review for dear old Eddie in today's Observer...
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I read an interview with Rev Richard Coles in yesterday's Sunday Times in which he said that transwomen don't menstruate. I was expecting a massive hoo-hah but ... nothing. Is it because he's a man and national treasure?
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If you want a picture of the future, imagine an entitled man in a pink trouser suit waving his dick in your face — forever.
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Rosie Duffield and I get on very well, we discuss a number of issues… No, not that Rosie Duffield, another Rosie Duffield. You wouldn't know her, she goes to a different parliament.
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