British Right-Wing Pundits

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.

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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?

sorry 'spiritualism/theosophy & superstition generally'

Hanging is too good for him IMO
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-18350615

pretty sure I'll experience acute and genuine pleasure when Rod Liddle dies just fyi

Next-level:

http://melaniephillips.com/america-goes-into-the-darkness

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

The World Turned Upside Down
By Melanie Phillips.
Now in paperback with a new foreword by David Mamet

do not want

It was Christianity and the Hebrew Bible that gave us our concepts of reason, progress and an orderly world

(citation needed)

I read that whole thing in the voice of Geoff Workman.

tbf to Melanie it was Christians who destroyed the library at Alexandria so she may not have heard of classical Greece

i'll admit i'm down with the great blood-letting, not metaphorically tho

if the blood-letting involves those who take the Dacre shilling, I'm all for it too.

jfc liddle

bad form to drop my mask on ilx but jfc liddle

He's vile

What rodent would you say he most resembles physically

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

What mask? Always been a confirmed omnisceptic - a thoroughly defensible position

only if you knew my backstory tbh but this is about the breathtaking rod liddle

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

by dint predictive text is a terrible man

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

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

Dutch is closely related to English, or do you mean French?

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.

https://samkriss.wordpress.com/2016/05/23/nick-cohen-is-in-your-house/

Why is it so many British Right Wing Pundits used to be Trotskyists?

great piece

it's not a question of their ex politics so much as their upbringing I suspect

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/

I'm guessing a celeb of Winton's stature hasn't lived in the real world for a very very long time.

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)
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Louise Mensch: 97k
Dan Hodges: 65.5k
Toby Young: 51.2k
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James Delingpole: 28.3k
Melanie Philips: 23.7k
David Vance: 22k
Jon Gaunt: 19.8k
Sarah Vine: 13k (has duly quit Twitter)

Are there any BRWPs who make their point with class and elegance? Apart from NRQ obv

Oborne? Is he still alive?

Yiannopoulos is US-centric these days? That might explain why he's 10 times more popular than, er, Melanie Phillips.

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.

Hitchens was on R4 last night, talking about his SWP days and his path to enlightenment.

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

he seems to cleave to a sort of Peter Mannion-esque old-fashioned-Tory-decency shtick

Extremely Mannionesque.

Hitchens seems to be winning friends on both sides atm.

He's insane though. I'm assuming he is not on Twitter.

https://twitter.com/ClarkeMicah
28.7k followers

Had to check who David Vance was, he's some piece of work that guy.

Lotta ironical lols when you GIS him though.

Had Peter Hitchens in my place of work earlier, very polite and decent fellow, on first impressions.

He's the absolute worst.

just clicked that link to Hitchens' twitter feed, and saw this interchange (under his pinned tweet), ice cold:

Philip Redbrooke ‏@PK_Roe Jul 7
@ClarkeMicah hello sir, I am a young (ish) Tory activist in Herts. Would like to talk with you about Social Conservatism at a conv time. Ta

Peter Hitchens ‏@ClarkeMicah Jul 8
@PK_Roe I debate with readers on my archived, indexed blog.

Peter Hitchens ‏@ClarkeMicah Jul 8
@PK_Roe But if you are an activist in the Blairite Tory Party the only thing I have to say to you is 'resign now'

He's the absolute worst.

You'd think so, but he was very pleasant to deal with. Kwasi Kwarteng came in later, now he is a dick.

Hitchens is not the worst, Delingpole is https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/jan/05/james-delingpole-article-calling-ocean-acidification-alarmism-cleared-by-press-watchdog?CMP=twt_gu