Main points from YAB. Which I agree with. And her point is apparent even on this thread. I've cut out the bits about the other topics a put the show which were not relevant to this particular part, mainly because copying and pasting it in full will probably result in a deletion.
Twitter, with users naming and shaming her for last week’s show. An overexcited crowd routinely comes for Bruce and denounces her for being a Tory stooge, a terrible Question Time chair and worse.
Another indictment has now been added by the usual suspects and thousands of others: the presenter, they say, minimised the seriousness of domestic violence against women. I unintentionally caused this furore and so feel obliged to correct the misrepresentations and defend Bruce.
Breaking news as I write: Bruce is having to give up the role of ambassador for Refuge, the domestic violence charity. She has been championing the rights of victimised females for over 25 years. She doesn’t deserve this.
The real rogues – men who play down the seriousness of domestic violence – must be sitting back and enjoying the spectacle.....
....When it was my turn, I said that I was less troubled by the Johnsons, who treat the kingdom as their fiefdom, and more by the corrupt honours system, and also pointed out to Clarke that Stanley Johnson was a wifebeater and that “it’s on record”. His late ex-wife was the artist Charlotte Wahl. She told Boris Johnson biographer Tom Bower that Stanley had broken her nose. The elder Johnson has never commented on those allegations. His friends allegedly confirmed it happened but claimed it was a “one off”.
Bruce quickly intervened and repeated their claim. I understood why. She was legally obliged to put out that clarification. I have no regrets about doing what I did and do not harbour any resentment against Bruce, who did what she had to do.
What happened next is dismaying and inexcusable. As Anna Wharton, an Orwell Prize nominee wrote on SubStack: “Suddenly these men, and women, who never talk about society’s most uncomfortable truth of male violence are outraged about domestic violence and have taken to Twitter to demonstrate it… Well done everyone, you have once again burnt the wrong witch – even those among you who claim to be feminists… What you have actually done is demonstrated your innate misogyny – that it’s far easier to police the language of women than hold a man accountable for his crimes.”