“Ought women not to be abolished all together?“ Louise Brealey reads Clementine Churchill

Louise Brealey reads Clementine Churchill’s letter to the editor of The Times (28 March 1912) On March 28th of 1912, an eminent bacteriologist named Almroth Wright wrote a lengthy, pompous letter to The Times in which he argued that women should not be allowed to vote, and in fact should be kept away from politics altogether, due to their supposed psychological and physiological deficiencies. Unsurprisingly his opinion generated many responses, the best of which was the following w
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