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Angela Rayner, Borderline Personality Disorder, and why you shouldn’t ‘trust all women’

May 14, 2026
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I know I wrote last week about Angela Rayner and perhaps you might think I am obsessed with this ginger school drop-out, but events are moving fast in the UK and, at the time of writing, there genuinely is the insane prospect of Angela Rayner – born into the underclass and a mother at 16 - becoming Prime Minister. Her ascent seems to reflect the lunacy that you should simply “believe what women say.” But since autumn I have been working on a book on a sub-section of women, around 3% of them, whom you probably should not believe, and that is women who have Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD). As far as I can see, Big Ange, like a fair few women who reach positions of power, is among their number.

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