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Sir: Polly Toynbee complains that some of the attacks on Emma Nicholson were motivated by a dislike of women ("Why do they hate her so much?" 4 January). She may be right in other cases, but my Daily Express article, quoted no less than three times in the attached montage, cannot be criticised on these grounds.
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