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Should I report my boyfriend to the police?

He made a joke about punching. Unlike Michael Fabricant’s, it was funny

28 June 2014

9:00 AM

28 June 2014

9:00 AM

Driving along in the car, listening to the radio news, the boyfriend turned to me and said he thought the Michael Fabricant row a very strange one. Fabricant was being pilloried for having tweeted that he could never go on television with Yasmin Alibhai-Brown because he might ‘end up punching her in the throat’, but my man said he didn’t see what the fuss was about.

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