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The confusing modern rules of telling a ‘joke’

24 June 2019

11:40 PM

24 June 2019

11:40 PM

The pace of outrage is such these days that before anybody has thought through any one outrage we are all expected to have moved onto the next one. So while everyone is still trying to work out the precise etiquette when female protestors carry out an orchestrated protest at a black tie event, perhaps readers will indulge me if I return to a previous outrage.

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