Beard Liberation Front
PRESS RELEASE 28th December
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BEARD LIBERATION FRONT CALLS FOR GUARDIAN APOLOGY ON POGONOPHOBIC COMMENT
The Beard Liberation Front, the informal network of beard wearers, which campaigns against irrational prejudice against the hirsute, has called out the Guardian for pogonophobia, after columnist Jonathan Freedland referred to Labour Leader Jeremy Corbyn’s ‘scraggily beard’ in the 21st December 2019 edition of the paper.
The full reference is,’ with a scraggily beard trimmed only once he won the leadership..’.
Freedland, while displaying his own prejudices, is clearly unaware that Jeremy Corbyn has won the Parliamentary Beard of the Year Award more times than any other MP.
BLF Organiser Keith Flett said, perhaps of all papers there should be no place for pogonophobia in The Guardian. We have raised the matter with the paper and we are calling on Mr Freedland to make a full apology.
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