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Please stop trying to raise my awareness

Once, campaigners and charities tried to fight social evils. Now they just tell us about them

29 March 2014

9:00 AM

29 March 2014

9:00 AM

I wish people would stop trying to raise my awareness. I can’t so much as surf the web or stroll a high street these days without being accosted by one of the aware, who is always hellbent on making me as aware as he is, usually about some disease or, if you’re really lucky, the rifeness of child abuse.

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