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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
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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.
Archive 2009-04-01 Mark Reckons 2009
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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.
RecessMonkey 2009
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Throughout Carol Thatcher's childhood, the Golliwog was a popular toy Photo: The Advertising Archives
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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
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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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