The Man Who Was Thursday is not too keen on "anarchists", and can allegedly be seen as a Christian allegory. As much about the politics of the Edwardian age as religion, though.
― good luck in your pyramid (Neil S), Tuesday, 20 March 2012 17:03 (twelve years ago) link
The Man Who Was Thursday was pre-conversion iirc? And the Father Brown stories, esp the first two volumes are really good. I'm a fan! I ever quite like his Apologetic book on converting to Catholicism, Orthodoxy. But that 'a-ha!' quality woof mentioned is f'ing annoying - esp. in his journalistic essays, where it's almost a tic.
― Fizzles, Tuesday, 20 March 2012 17:10 (twelve years ago) link
yeah i like Chesterton's work which is why it feels unfair comparing him to Littlejohn because i'm pretty sure GKC was, at the least, sincere.
― red is hungry green is jawless (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 20 March 2012 17:11 (twelve years ago) link
it's one thing banging out outrageous opinions for money but if Liljon has read literally anything at all about this and concluded that 'pray 4 Muamba' means that people are treating him as some sort of deity then I can't even
― Cantera: Vulgar Display Of Puyol (DJ Mencap), Tuesday, 20 March 2012 17:12 (twelve years ago) link
xpost - And yes, NV otm about the tilting at redirected faith against theosophical and New Age stuff, or, say, faith in lie-detecting machines or that violent books make children violent - he's a good defender of the metaphysical against obtuse materialism.
― Fizzles, Tuesday, 20 March 2012 17:14 (twelve years ago) link
xps
yeah, he came quite a long way round. Think the family was unitarian, so v familiar with a rational sort of christianity, off the rails for a while then Anglican for a long time, then rome.
in the story he's talking to a young 'heathen humanitarian', & just preceeding the bit quoted there's a line about 'It’s drowning all your old rationalism and scepticism, it’s coming in like a sea; and the name of it is superstition.' So I think he thinks spiritualism/theosophy – 'arbitrary without being authoritative' to quote the story again – is a necessary consequence of unCatholicism/rationalism?
modern right-wing pundits - suspect Damian Thompson's attacks on pseudo-science something like a modern equivalent to this?
― woof, Tuesday, 20 March 2012 17:14 (twelve years ago) link
sorry 'spiritualism/theosophy & superstition generally'
― woof, Tuesday, 20 March 2012 17:15 (twelve years ago) link
Hanging is too good for him IMOhttp://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-18350615
― Arvo Pärt Chimp (Neil S), Thursday, 7 June 2012 11:36 (eleven years ago) link
pretty sure I'll experience acute and genuine pleasure when Rod Liddle dies just fyi
― geezargh butlargh (DJ Mencap), Thursday, 7 June 2012 13:28 (eleven years ago) link
Next-level:
http://melaniephillips.com/america-goes-into-the-darkness
― Neil S, Thursday, 8 November 2012 14:22 (eleven years ago) link
Iran can now be sure that it will be able to complete its infernal construction of a genocide bomb to use against the Jews and the west
A GENOCIDE BOMB
― C-3PO Sharkey (Phil D.), Thursday, 8 November 2012 14:24 (eleven years ago) link
The World Turned Upside DownBy Melanie Phillips. Now in paperback with a new foreword by David Mamet
― woof, Thursday, 8 November 2012 14:25 (eleven years ago) link
do not want
― Neil S, Thursday, 8 November 2012 14:26 (eleven years ago) link
It was Christianity and the Hebrew Bible that gave us our concepts of reason, progress and an orderly world
(citation needed)
― Dog the Puffin Hunter (ledge), Thursday, 8 November 2012 14:27 (eleven years ago) link
I read that whole thing in the voice of Geoff Workman.
― how's life, Thursday, 8 November 2012 14:30 (eleven years ago) link
tbf to Melanie it was Christians who destroyed the library at Alexandria so she may not have heard of classical Greece
― movember spawned a nobster (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 8 November 2012 14:32 (eleven years ago) link
i'll admit i'm down with the great blood-letting, not metaphorically tho
― movember spawned a nobster (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 8 November 2012 14:33 (eleven years ago) link
if the blood-letting involves those who take the Dacre shilling, I'm all for it too.
― Neil S, Thursday, 8 November 2012 14:38 (eleven years ago) link
jfc liddle
― leave the web boys alone (darraghmac), Sunday, 22 June 2014 09:31 (nine years ago) link
bad form to drop my mask on ilx but jfc liddle
― leave the web boys alone (darraghmac), Sunday, 22 June 2014 09:35 (nine years ago) link
He's vile
What rodent would you say he most resembles physically
― Knob Dicks (wins), Sunday, 22 June 2014 09:39 (nine years ago) link
I don't feel all that strongly about most rodents and he's far too fatfaced and smug looking to pass for a rat so idk
― leave the web boys alone (darraghmac), Sunday, 22 June 2014 09:44 (nine years ago) link
What mask? Always been a confirmed omnisceptic - a thoroughly defensible position
― avicii usque ad arse (imago), Sunday, 22 June 2014 10:03 (nine years ago) link
only if you knew my backstory tbh but this is about the breathtaking rod liddle
― leave the web boys alone (darraghmac), Sunday, 22 June 2014 10:14 (nine years ago) link
link
― avicii usque ad arse (imago), Sunday, 22 June 2014 11:45 (nine years ago) link
sorry I was scoring goals ffs
today's Sunday times he outlines why he's supporting Netherlands by don't of insulting all the other countries in his own inimitable way
― leave the web boys alone (darraghmac), Sunday, 22 June 2014 12:28 (nine years ago) link
by dint predictive text is a terrible man
― leave the web boys alone (darraghmac), Sunday, 22 June 2014 12:29 (nine years ago) link
i took a look in that freebie of the Sun that they put out last week
the editorial said some guff about "loving your country used to be thought of as racist but not any more"
then every other page was full of snide little digs at other countries including a whole column of Liddle doing his "jungle starts at Calais" shtick
fuck every last one of them imo
― Kevin from Blechgium (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 22 June 2014 15:17 (nine years ago) link
There was some p. amazing trolling in that free Sun column, like a bit in the middle about "oh hey I'm just gonna use the words Britain and England interchangeably because that's what Britain is all about to me" just dropped in all casual-like
also a bit about how terrible it would be to live in Belgium, which distracted me from the rest of the article because I was too busy thinking "sounds p. good to me apart from the unpronounceable language"
anyway I was embarrassed that this got shoved through the doors of all the flats in this block as half of my neighbours are, y'know, not English
― the ghosts of dead pom-bears (a passing spacecadet), Sunday, 22 June 2014 18:35 (nine years ago) link
Dutch is closely related to English, or do you mean French?
― Barry Gordy (Neil S), Sunday, 22 June 2014 21:17 (nine years ago) link
I wonder if they bothered to deliver their garbage a mile down the road from me where the racial presence is about 90% non-white? The usual Ron Liddle bile + unrealistic jingoist crap about crap england team. No doubt most of that worthless shit was being used to line cat-litter trays within minutes.
― xelab, Sunday, 22 June 2014 21:31 (nine years ago) link
https://samkriss.wordpress.com/2016/05/23/nick-cohen-is-in-your-house/
― ghosts that don't exist (Neil S), Tuesday, 24 May 2016 08:30 (seven years ago) link
Why is it so many British Right Wing Pundits used to be Trotskyists?
― Larry 'Leg' Smith (Tom D.), Tuesday, 24 May 2016 09:12 (seven years ago) link
great piece
it's not a question of their ex politics so much as their upbringing I suspect
― Noodle Vague, Tuesday, 24 May 2016 09:30 (seven years ago) link
I feel kind of sad about Dale Winton's unexpected heel turn. or had he shown inclinations of this sort on previous occasions, and they'd passed me by?
http://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/dale-winton-donald-trump-is-he-hero-or-villain/
― soref, Wednesday, 25 May 2016 17:32 (seven years ago) link
I'm guessing a celeb of Winton's stature hasn't lived in the real world for a very very long time.
― it's getting ott in here / so take off all your clothes (stevie), Thursday, 26 May 2016 08:53 (seven years ago) link
Some BRWPs and their Twitter clout
Milo Yiannopoulos: 234k (this has rocketed up from 60k or so within the last year but I get the impression he does go in for fake follower shenans)-Louise Mensch: 97kDan Hodges: 65.5kToby Young: 51.2k-James Delingpole: 28.3kMelanie Philips: 23.7kDavid Vance: 22kJon Gaunt: 19.8kSarah Vine: 13k (has duly quit Twitter)
― nashwan, Thursday, 26 May 2016 09:59 (seven years ago) link
Are there any BRWPs who make their point with class and elegance? Apart from NRQ obv
― And the cry rang out all o'er the town / Good Heavens! Tay is down (imago), Thursday, 26 May 2016 10:03 (seven years ago) link
Oborne? Is he still alive?
― Larry 'Leg' Smith (Tom D.), Thursday, 26 May 2016 10:07 (seven years ago) link
Yiannopoulos is US-centric these days? That might explain why he's 10 times more popular than, er, Melanie Phillips.
― Larry 'Leg' Smith (Tom D.), Thursday, 26 May 2016 10:08 (seven years ago) link
Oborne came out strongly against Goldsmith recently.
Parris is one of the more sensible ones, though presumably considered a bit wet, and Hitchens seems to be winning friends on both sides atm.
― On a Raqqa tip (ShariVari), Thursday, 26 May 2016 10:11 (seven years ago) link
Hitchens was on R4 last night, talking about his SWP days and his path to enlightenment.
― calzino, Thursday, 26 May 2016 10:17 (seven years ago) link
oh it's true, Oborne has written some fairly decent things in vague memory. i'm sure he's also said some horrid things too but that's the nature of it
― And the cry rang out all o'er the town / Good Heavens! Tay is down (imago), Thursday, 26 May 2016 10:17 (seven years ago) link
he seems to cleave to a sort of Peter Mannion-esque old-fashioned-Tory-decency shtick
― And the cry rang out all o'er the town / Good Heavens! Tay is down (imago), Thursday, 26 May 2016 10:18 (seven years ago) link
Extremely Mannionesque.
― Larry 'Leg' Smith (Tom D.), Thursday, 26 May 2016 10:21 (seven years ago) link
Hitchens seems to be winning friends on both sides atm.
He's insane though. I'm assuming he is not on Twitter.
― Larry 'Leg' Smith (Tom D.), Thursday, 26 May 2016 10:23 (seven years ago) link
https://twitter.com/ClarkeMicah28.7k followers
― nashwan, Thursday, 26 May 2016 10:28 (seven years ago) link
Had to check who David Vance was, he's some piece of work that guy.
― Larry 'Leg' Smith (Tom D.), Thursday, 26 May 2016 10:32 (seven years ago) link
Lotta ironical lols when you GIS him though.
― Larry 'Leg' Smith (Tom D.), Thursday, 26 May 2016 10:33 (seven years ago) link
Had Peter Hitchens in my place of work earlier, very polite and decent fellow, on first impressions.
― Aw naw, no' Annoni oan an' aw noo (Tom D.), Wednesday, 3 August 2016 18:33 (seven years ago) link