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The BBC’s woke guide to gender

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Earlier this week, Mr S brought you the BBC’s internal guide to talking about climate change and how to win audiences over to the ‘correct’ side of the issue. Now he can report that the Corporation’s commissars of language appear to have also redefined what it means to be gay.

That redefinition comes in the BBC Style Guide, the in-house guide to words last updated in November. In

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