Very interesting article, good to see it slightly more from the inside than usual, but think she could have done a bit more to mention the other tendrils the LM network has wrapped around the media in the UK. Particularly liked the ending, it's true that they are not an independent cancer in society, but tie into the immensely-arrogant, over-reliant-on-rationality thread which runs through most of the media in the UK, the "let's talk like grown-ups" thing is a good tell, and it is indeed the mark of intellectual growth which has been stunted by lack of empathy (and, again, arrogance.)
― Wuhan!! Got You All in Check (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Saturday, 18 April 2020 12:59 (four years ago) link
If possible they're on TV even more than usual at the moment, Claire Fox certainly is.
― The Corbynite Maneuver (Tom D.), Saturday, 18 April 2020 13:47 (four years ago) link
jenny turner piece nearly a decade old now!!
― mark s, Saturday, 18 April 2020 13:52 (four years ago) link
sorry that's just a content-free "time flies when everything is fucked" type post
― mark s, Saturday, 18 April 2020 13:53 (four years ago) link
I haven't read the article yet, the podcast came up semi-randomly and ended up listening to it on my run this morning. I then noticed the article linked from the podcast, will most likely read next week
xp oh wow didn't even notice it was a piece from 10 years ago!
― anvil, Saturday, 18 April 2020 13:55 (four years ago) link
Free speech for some, massive pasty foreheads for others, culture war for everyone!
Seems like the epidemic is spreading! pic.twitter.com/DsJfjiBAgW— Huw Lemmey (@huwlemmey) June 3, 2020
― Neil S, Wednesday, 3 June 2020 12:51 (four years ago) link
I think it is terrible that poor Brenda is getting shamed for his hilariously massive forehead!
― calzino, Wednesday, 3 June 2020 12:56 (four years ago) link
Lol autocorrect brenda
sorry for self-posting but it really is too easy
Hi @spikedonline Brendan O'Neill has a grotesquely distended forehead and also has bad opinions, do not block me as this is a free speech issue— Neil Stewart (@neilstewart) June 3, 2020
A sad day for free speech on the web pic.twitter.com/qZBLrKRn2h— Neil Stewart (@neilstewart) June 3, 2020
― Neil S, Wednesday, 3 June 2020 12:58 (four years ago) link
lol
― Le Bateau Ivre, Wednesday, 3 June 2020 13:03 (four years ago) link
silenced4truth
― french flaps, sparkly letters, all the bells and whistles (bizarro gazzara), Wednesday, 3 June 2020 13:04 (four years ago) link
I specifically told them NOT to block me, because free speech, and now look what has happened
― Neil S, Wednesday, 3 June 2020 13:10 (four years ago) link
Now you could say there are quite a lot of people living in his grotesquely distended forehead, rent free.
― calzino, Wednesday, 3 June 2020 13:21 (four years ago) link
*muffled screams* pic.twitter.com/6gzVvc3t2F— Guybrush Tweetgood (@Gordopolitz) June 3, 2020
― hip posts without flaggadocio (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 3 June 2020 13:25 (four years ago) link
now that's just taking things too far
― Neil S, Wednesday, 3 June 2020 13:35 (four years ago) link
*eyes bleeding*
― Le Bateau Ivre, Wednesday, 3 June 2020 13:35 (four years ago) link
Kenneth Cranham in Hellraiser 2 dot gif (was gonna post it, thought better of it)
― glumdalclitch, Wednesday, 3 June 2020 13:40 (four years ago) link
https://t.co/AFYhEoLkI4 pic.twitter.com/1Ff1WAmbIA— John Duncan (@Johntheduncan) June 7, 2020
― calzino, Monday, 8 June 2020 08:20 (four years ago) link
brendan o’neill but with each post his forehead gets bigger: a thread pic.twitter.com/09wGN47N0U— jonathan nunn (@demarionunn) June 9, 2020
― calzino, Wednesday, 10 June 2020 21:33 (four years ago) link
LOLz even though I kind of hate that this arse is famous enough to have the pish ripped out of him online.
― Subverted by buggery (Tom D.), Wednesday, 10 June 2020 21:38 (four years ago) link
I want to see him getting shamed about his appearance so hard that he is reduced to wearing a ridiculous bowler hat or a mark knopfler head band on the BBC or sky news!
― calzino, Wednesday, 10 June 2020 21:43 (four years ago) link
Head band? He'd need a cummerbund.
― Subverted by buggery (Tom D.), Wednesday, 10 June 2020 21:48 (four years ago) link
hated and derided likeness of one of history's greatest monsters being dredged up from the bottom of Bristol harbour
off to museum with you pic.twitter.com/nUev2dt9ND— Guybrush Tweetgood (@Gordopolitz) June 11, 2020
― Neil S, Thursday, 11 June 2020 12:38 (four years ago) link
if i write a thinkpiece demanding people stop forehead-shaming Brendan are Spiked gonna have to run a bit about why forehead-shaming is good?
― comparing me to Harold Shipman is unfair (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 11 June 2020 16:41 (four years ago) link
By Trying to Ban the Forehead-Shaming of Brendan O'Neill, the "Tolerant" Left are Showing their True Colours
- by Brendan O'Neill
― Neil S, Thursday, 11 June 2020 18:00 (four years ago) link
subs, please check
― Neil S, Thursday, 11 June 2020 18:01 (four years ago) link
pic.twitter.com/GNju7K8C3C— Nooruddean (@BeardedGenius) June 15, 2020
― calzino, Monday, 15 June 2020 22:08 (four years ago) link
thought you would be posting this, which is less funny
Boris Johnson has asked Munira Mirza to set up his commission on racial inequality. Here's some of her former work. pic.twitter.com/yOY40Cntjb— Adam Bienkov (@AdamBienkov) June 15, 2020
― Anti-Cop Ponceortium (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Monday, 15 June 2020 22:18 (four years ago) link
How about setting up Gary Glitter to head a commission on child abuse next!
― calzino, Monday, 15 June 2020 22:31 (four years ago) link
Look. Criticise Furedi, Revolutionary Communist Party/Living Marxism, Institute of Ideas, Spiked Online, Academics For Academic Freedom, Academy of Ideas, Ad-Hoc Hands Off the Middle East Committee, Africa Direct, Audacity, Battle of Ideas, Belfast Salon, Big Potatoes, BioNews >— Andy Fleming (@slackbastard) June 16, 2020
Extraordinary thread on how many cut-outs they have.
― ShariVari, Wednesday, 17 June 2020 10:17 (four years ago) link
Spiked… idk, I'm always surprised it's still going - still chugging along, still pretending to be quite serious, still publishing 3rd rate cultural crit + ooh-contrary LM challops by men in glasses; no-one ever notices, though, from what I can see - maybe I move in the wrong bit of the internet, but no-one seems to give 1 sol. shit about them. What an odd place.― you don't exist in the database (woof), Friday, 27 January 2012 13:43 (eight years ago) bookmarkflaglink
― you don't exist in the database (woof), Friday, 27 January 2012 13:43 (eight years ago) bookmarkflaglink
flashback to a more innocent age
― Ivan Scampo (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 17 June 2020 10:38 (four years ago) link
Suggest calz gets himself down to the Huddersfield Salon and reports back.
― Terry Micawber (Tom D.), Wednesday, 17 June 2020 10:40 (four years ago) link
"Families for Freedom, Families Need Freedom"
when PIE amalgamated with some anti-vax organisations!
― calzino, Wednesday, 17 June 2020 10:48 (four years ago) link
brendan o'neill on his love of dogfighting pic.twitter.com/Hdy7dDqQcF— gart/barfield (@wurrance) June 17, 2020
― calzino, Wednesday, 17 June 2020 11:04 (four years ago) link
Is that actually real though or some fake Twitter shite?
― Terry Micawber (Tom D.), Wednesday, 17 June 2020 11:08 (four years ago) link
Since when has Brendan O'Neill ever criticized Communists? That doesn't fit the Furedi narrative.
― Terry Micawber (Tom D.), Wednesday, 17 June 2020 11:10 (four years ago) link
yeah probably fake, but he will write a dog-fighting piece at some point.
― calzino, Wednesday, 17 June 2020 11:13 (four years ago) link
am all for Brendan getting naked in a barn and going toe to paw with a couple of half-starved Rotties
― Ivan Scampo (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 17 June 2020 11:42 (four years ago) link
lmao he's wearing a fucking hat again pic.twitter.com/mvtftjKeJm— P.G. Chodehouse (@mynnoj) June 17, 2020
well done to people for giving this snowflake a huuuge slaphead complex through their persistent meme-posting!
― calzino, Wednesday, 17 June 2020 18:52 (four years ago) link
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EavBSjaXkAEsfEs?format=jpg&name=large
― calzino, Wednesday, 17 June 2020 18:53 (four years ago) link
Yes, a beautiful thing has happened.
― Terry Micawber (Tom D.), Wednesday, 17 June 2020 18:58 (four years ago) link
Sorry, but it blatantly did NOT completely cross the line. pic.twitter.com/t6SUcFUZNY— That Ed boy below has just repeated my joke (@TreborRhurbarb) June 17, 2020
― calzino, Wednesday, 17 June 2020 19:04 (four years ago) link
Mild starvation is good for children says the hate filled far right loser Brendan O’Neill pic.twitter.com/IhLsvbcKVQ— Simon Gosden. Esq. #fbpe 🕷🇪🇺🇬🇧🏴☠️🦠🦠 (@g_gosden) June 17, 2020
― Heavy Messages (jed_), Wednesday, 17 June 2020 21:11 (four years ago) link
Brendan O'Neill is ridiculous enough as it is, so why so these unfunny Twitter cunts feel the need to make up stuff he didn't say?
― Terry Micawber (Tom D.), Wednesday, 17 June 2020 21:16 (four years ago) link
Oh shit is that a fake?
― Heavy Messages (jed_), Wednesday, 17 June 2020 21:22 (four years ago) link
Second one today.
― Terry Micawber (Tom D.), Wednesday, 17 June 2020 21:27 (four years ago) link
apologies for sharing it.
― Heavy Messages (jed_), Wednesday, 17 June 2020 21:27 (four years ago) link
I blame Twitter.
― Terry Micawber (Tom D.), Wednesday, 17 June 2020 21:30 (four years ago) link
well the childish appearance shaming seems to be more effective than the attempts at satire atm! I'm not judging either though, but it's no doubt great that he has been pressured into wearing a hat at zoom chats.
― calzino, Wednesday, 17 June 2020 21:34 (four years ago) link
If it is getting under the skin of his freakishly distended dome then it is good satire, who cares if it is childish?
― calzino, Wednesday, 17 June 2020 21:40 (four years ago) link