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Robbie Griffiths

Londoner’s Diary: Benedict Cumberbatch says understanding toxic masculinity helps society

Benedict Cumberbatch

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Welcome back to the Londoner’s Diary. First up Benedict Cumberbatch is urging people to try and understand the root causes of toxic masculinity. Also we hear Wireless festival was so loud that the explicit lyrics of Megan Thee Stallion’s WAP could be heard inside houses a mile away and Private Eye editor Ian Hislop tells us his magazine hasn’t lost its trouble-making power. In SW1A Speaker Sir Lindsay Hoyle is hoping an appearance from Joanna Lumley will impress fellow Speakers as they arrive to his constituency this week and the PM jokes about efforts to boost the UK’s population.

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