Article: Sunday Shout: Bare-faced cheek of beard critics gets my goatee.

I SHALL soon celebrate the 25th anniversary of my beard.

It won't be a big do, just a few close friends who want to raise a glass and say 'chin-chin, old boy.'

But I shall keep the venue secret because I don't want to be invaded by scissor-wielding demonstrators from the Beard Action Reform Front - or BARF, as we hairy ones know it.

It seems the sad list of intolerant 'isms' - racism, sexism, ageism, fattism - now also includes beardism.

The latest victim is Frank Dobson who has been warned he stands no chance of ...

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