Robert Gore-Langton

Does Rada seriously believe George Bernard Shaw was an Irish Mengele?

You'd think Shaw – vegetarian, pro-women's rights, pro-homosexual, anti-war – would be well within the radius of trust of the wokest student

George Bernard Shaw with Chinese communist playwright Hong Shen, during a visit to Shanghai in 1933. Photo: © Hulton-Deutsch Collection / Corbis / Getty Images

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