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5 June 2021

9:00 AM

5 June 2021

9:00 AM

A campaign is needed against the word ‘partner’—so I have started one. It was launched on Peta Credlin’s program on Sky News and I am inviting you, dear Speccie reader, to join.

I am fed up with the push to banish the words ‘wife’ and ‘husband’ and replace them with the bland, meaningless ‘partner’.

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