Being able to turn stupidity into cold hard cash did make the whole thing a lot more palatable and less aggravating.

Nobody else has the right balance of madness, pomposity, determination, comedy chops, staying power and hubris to make this quest work. I am cursed, but it has to be ME.

I am not a sexist. I’ve actually got a friend who’s a woman, so I can’t be sexist. I believe women should be treated as if they’re equal.

In some ways, men actually need to overthrow the patriarchy more urgently than women do.

England is a country originally created by invasion of northern Europeans, our patron saint is the son of a Roman and Palestinian, our flag is copied off the Genoans, our royal banner is three lions (animals indigenous to Africa), the figurehead of the Church of England is a Palestinian Jew, we have a German royal family, our national food is curry

If the people asking the question really care about International Men’s Day then they need to know that they are damaging it. If they don’t care about it and just have a problem with women having a day of celebration, then the damage is inside them and they need to address it. Women are not the reason their life is going the way it is. Their proble

These men are angry at something, but they don’t know what, exactly. It’s easier for them to blame people who are different to them than it is to blame themselves, or more pertinently the system that has encouraged them to bottle up their feelings and made them dispensable.

it’s a special kind of person who can get infuriated by someone raising so much cash for victims of domestic abuse. Though, believe me, those very special kinds of people do exist.

Masculinity is in a crisis of its own making, and toxic masculinity and ludicrous overconfidence in our own ability is harming men, too.