Germaine Greer tells Louis Theroux 'clever women should marry truck drivers' because couples in career competition don't work - and reveals flirtatious friendship with George Best

Germaine Greer has suggested that intelligent women might be happier if they married 'truck drivers'. Appearing on Louis Theroux's podcast, academic and feminist Germaine Greer said that woman think they need their husbands to have 'status' - but said men don't feel the same so 'there's an imbalance at the very beginning' During the episode, which lasted an hour and 15 minutes, Theroux also pressed Greer on her flirtations with late footballer George Best. Speaking about the 'No platform' or cancel culture that's evolved, she told Theroux that no-one has a 'God-given right to speak' The academic also referenced a flirtatious friendship with George Best; saying while she did not 'immediately leap upon him or vice versa', she did fancy him She replied: 'George, for Christ's sake, there's not a woman in this room who doesn't fancy you. During the episode, Greer also said students were right to protest against her views on transgender issues, saying no-one has a 'God-given right to speak'. Referencing the protests that took place against her over anti-trans comments she made in 2015 by students at Cardiff University, Greer said she respected their right to 'shout her down' In the podcast episode, Theroux suggested the 'left is maybe more censorious and less tolerant of dissenting opinions and more opposed to free speech'.