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  • On the specifics of Iain Dale I do think he should have condemned Carol Thatcher when she used the term Golliwog but I have never said he was a racist.

    Derek Draper should go - now Mark Reckons 2009

  • On the specifics of Iain Dale I do think he should have condemned Carol Thatcher when she used the term Golliwog but I have never said he was a racist.

    Archive 2009-04-01 Mark Reckons 2009

  • On the specifics of Iain Dale I do think he should have condemned Carol Thatcher when she used the term Golliwog but I have never said he was a racist.

    RecessMonkey 2009

  • Can anybody point out a black person who has been offended by the use of the word Golliwog by CT?

    Iain Dale's Diary 2009

  • BTW not two miles from where I write this there is a toy shop called the Golliwog Shop which cheerfully sells golliwog dolls.

    Publisher attacks readers who complain about sloppy editing Peter Rozovsky 2010

  • Last night Matt M (aka Golliwog) came round to the flat with his blue bass (as in guitar, not fish) to pose for some folio photos for Shelly.

    phluid61 Diary Entry phluid61 2004

  • Throughout Carol Thatcher's childhood, the Golliwog was a popular toy decision to sack Carol Thatcher from The One Show because she described a tennis player as looking like a "golliwog", a spokesman for the corporation said: "The BBC considers any language of a racist nature wholly unacceptable."

    Telegraph.co.uk: news business sport the Daily Telegraph newspaper Sunday Telegraph 2009

  • Throughout Carol Thatcher's childhood, the Golliwog was a popular toy Photo: The Advertising Archives

    Barking Moonbat Early Warning System 2009

  • Original Beatrix Potters, Randolph Caldecott illustrations, Beano comics, the strange "Golliwog" books perhaps the root word for that horrible slur 'wog?'

    The WritingYA Weblog: FIELD TRIP! The Museum of Childhood tanita davis 2008

  • Original Beatrix Potters, Randolph Caldecott illustrations, Beano comics, the strange "Golliwog" books perhaps the root word for that horrible slur 'wog?'

    Archive 2008-03-01 tanita davis 2008

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