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Can You Write Well About Bad Deeds?

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Ben Sixsmith
Apr 19, 2024
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You never want to be the “main character” on Twitter — the focus of the day’s most heated outrage and derision. Yesterday, it was the turn of the Spectator’s theatre critic Lloyd Evans.

Mr Evans’ latest Spectator column initially outraged people because he talked about attending a lecture by the academic Lea Ypi and being too occupied by her good looks t…

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