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I’m a retired sexual health and sex and relationships education specialist.
Where do you live?
Abingdon, near Oxford.
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I’ve never missed voting.
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For a year.
What made you start?
I was seeking all intelligent input in lockdown.
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The cartoons.
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With good coffee.
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Writing on feminism, Nordic models and gender theory.
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Rachel Cooke, Michael Prodger, Philip Collins.
Who would you put on the cover of the NS?
Shirley Williams.
With which political figure would you least like to be stuck in a lift?
Owen Jones, every time.
All-time favourite NS article?
Jason Cowley’s essay on George Orwell.
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This article appears in the 28 Apr 2021 issue of the New Statesman, The new battle of ideas