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Matthew Parris

I miss Auberon Waugh. He’d know what to say about relentless women’s issues

17 February 2018

9:00 AM

17 February 2018

9:00 AM

Every now and then one suddenly misses somebody. I miss Bron, who died 17 years ago last month. There’s an Auberon Waugh-sized hole in British satirical journalism.

Listening to the radio last week — it was all about famous women, women in history, women’s suffrage, sexual harassment of women, equal pay for women at the BBC, women this and women that — I felt vaguely irritable.

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