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Open letter to Peter Tatchell: What did you hope to achieve by sabotaging those fighting violence against women?
Tatchell’s stunt against the famously anti-war leader of the Labour Party has not helped Syrians in the slightest and has actively harmed the cause of women’s rights, says LOUISE RAW

Dear Peter,

For me, Tatchell will now eternally rhyme with “What the actual…?”

You’ve done some dodgy things as well as some commendable ones over the years. I will always think your advocacy of lowering the age of consent, and sympathy towards adult and child sexual relationships, is wrongheaded and abhorrent. But I have also cheered many of your human rights interventions.

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