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Rod Liddle

Wear a veil if you like – but don’t treat women like that

Whether it’s French opera patrons or police in the UAE, somehow it’s the female sex that’s liable to be picked on

25 October 2014

9:00 AM

25 October 2014

9:00 AM

What sort of clothing do you wear when you go to the opera? I assume some of you do go to the opera, otherwise the Royal Opera House could be turned into a giant Wetherspoon’s pub. I have never been. Given a choice I would rather browse through a collection of photographs of Brooks Newmark MP’s penis, or indeed gnaw off my right leg.

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