October 2023
Hello and thank you all for coming to join us this evening. I started writing this planning to talk about two events at different ends of a scale of misogyny outrages, but the more I thought about it the more I realised there wasn’t a linear scale, I think it’s a 3D jigsaw puzzle… I think… Last Tuesday Laurence Fox appeared on the Dan Wootton show in GB News and said some stuff about Ava Evans – a political journalist – which got him and Dan Wooton suspended from GB News. I can’t bring myself to watch the whole interview, but I understand he said she was ‘unshaggable’. So, obviously, first up, Fox’s language and point was horrible and a misogynistic attack on Ms Evans. And irrelevant to the discussion taking place. But ‘Yay!’ – GB News took action, which wasn’t inevitable given their style and track record. But… I was sad to read though to read some of Ava Evans comments afterwards – a female political journalist with an unexpected nationwide pla