
Marshall Matters: Simon Fanshawe
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The Purity of the Heretic Is Not New
The notion of the heretic is not a new one. I think at the moment, there are things that reinforce it. Social media now actually enables that interaction and traction by a relatively small group of people who can create a lot of noise. The book starts saying, why am I writing this book? Because a very good friend of mine, very sweetly read it for me. She's fiercely intelligent, very funny and sort of counterintuitive in those days when in order to be a feminist, obviously had to wear clothes and hugories. So you need to reach. You need to write chapter zero. It's a brilliant piece of advice because it made me think, why do I value
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