A nasty cut for ‘female eunuch’

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Just to show how selective quotations can mislead, I’ll give you Germaine Greer’s next sentence which your Diarist dropped (MW April 1).

Yes, she said she could not read The Daily Telegraph “without feeling a terrible sense of guilt”. But her next line, which you left out, was “which is a shame because it’s the best written newspaper in Britain today”.

Jeremy Deedes

Managing director

Telegraph Group

London E14

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