The party that fell for a lie

Helen Joyce

The main issue was the WEP’s inability to give a straight answer to the question: what is a woman? ONE OF THE SIGNS YOU’RE GETTING OLDER is that you learn of the death of an actor or singer you’d heard nothing about for ages, and your immediate reaction is surprise that they were not already dead. Thus it was in late October when the Women’s Equality Party tweeted the “important news” that its leaders were recommending that its members vote to shut it down. This despite the party having offered “transformative solutions making a real difference”. (I challenge you to name a single one.) Twitter/X isn’t the real world — it’s more progressive and much more politically engaged. So it’s striking that the tweet, viewed 1.8 million times, garnered a paltry…

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