
EP.189 - SAMIRA AHMED
THE ADAM BUXTON PODCAST
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Claire Short and Mary White House Right
I wrote a big feature for the BBC News website called Mary White House Right. It was focused very much on her campaigning about pornography. People at Peter Tatchall said, oh, this is rubbish but they didn't tag me in. But I just stood by the piece and it got a million hits. And Claire Short is not remotely interested in rescuing the reputation of Mary White House. She thinks she was a terrible woman. They were both campaigning on similar grounds in some ways. Well, that's the thing. If she delight herself with the feminist movement, she might have been taken more seriously. But she didn't like competition. The whole culture of politics has gone from bad to worse
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