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In Defence of the British Empire

Quillette Podcast

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Are You a Gobi Brown Woman?

I wouldn't mind being in a pith helmet and rescuing women. I don't know if the Jews were allowed to do that in Victorian time. Priya Gopal led the charge way back in 2017, when I'd published an article in the London Times saying I thought we British had confined course for both pride and shame. My great grandfather created a million Scotland that processed manure. Why this was on the first page, except to associate me with shit, I've no idea. Yeah, so there are a lot of personal abuse and I just observe that my critics are better at personal attack than they are at argument.

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