Matthew Parris Matthew Parris

How I miss Auberon Waugh

Was a week of female over-representation on news programmes really so unfair?

issue 17 February 2018

Every now and then one suddenly misses somebody. I miss Bron, who died 17 years ago last month. There’s an Auberon Waugh-sized hole in British satirical journalism.

Listening to the radio last week — it was all about famous women, women in history, women’s suffrage, sexual harassment of women, equal pay for women at the BBC, women this and women that — I felt vaguely irritable.

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