British Right-Wing Pundits

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

can't get over this photo of Peter Hitchens from 1969

https://i.pinimg.com/736x/6f/55/6c/6f556cd56570db6384477dbc9e5a4226--interesting-history-peter-otoole.jpg

His campaign for real Conservatism, the crusade against cannabis and for the restoration of the death penalty. They were just little acorns of thought in his mind at this point.

He makes me lol so much when refers to Blair as a Marxist. I mean you'd think someone who used to dress like that would know a Marxist when he sees one!

I could imagine a grizzled + ageing (i.e. looking past getting ID'ed) Owen Jones being more right wing than Hitchens in the future.

Long hair and sideburns, but still looks like an arrogant twat who knows what's good for you.

Having that smug type of countenance that silently says "your'e wrong and I'm right you fucking pleb!" is probably quite a burden! Or is it something you just naturally grow into?

I listen to Radio 3, and occasionally they get this cunt on to talk. Here's your smug patrician countenance:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/content/dam/Author%20photos/Simon_Heffer1-xlarge.png

As if Anne McElvoy on Free Thinking wasn't bad enough.

I am ashamed to admit I was once in a lift with that cunt and didn't stab him. Not that I had a knife on me at the time.

that's truly a horrible old england face

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/content/dam/Author%20photos/Simon_Heffer1-xlarge.pnghttps://i.guim.co.uk/img/static/sys-images/Guardian/Pix/pictures/2013/4/26/1366993851778/Sir-John-Houblon-pictured-011.jpg

unngh

http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2014/03/24/article-0-1AB6DBCE00000578-814_634x326.jpg

Think I've come around to Peter Hitchens a little in so much as I still think he's wrong about almost everything, but is at least operating from what appears to be sincerely held beliefs and is at least courteous (if not respectful) to his opponents (which seems to be basically everyone)

On the other hand my dislike of Matthew Parris, who seems to be treated as one of the good uns, knows no bounds.

Man alive...

A few more of the guests we've got coming up on #AftertheNews - join us from Monday after the @itvnews at Ten pic.twitter.com/19OuQco0B6

— After The News (@AfterTheNewsITV) October 5, 2017

Beyond The Facts

I am not sure JRM is especially conservative. https://t.co/qVNsEvCETC

— Peter Hitchens (@ClarkeMicah) October 7, 2017

As you must be aware, true conservatism is now the counter culture, so you and Rees-Mogg are slowly gaining rockstar status here in the US

— ReaIity Kid (@ReaIityKid) October 7, 2017

This Paperchase pearl-clutching is all very amusing

Day 1 of the RW Columnist Paperchase anti boycott boycott. Rod Liddle has had to burn all of his tropical fruit scented pens. His hair smells of molten plastic & mango. Tim Montgomerie is suspected of owning a cactus print A5 academic year planner & is hung as a witch.

— Then he went 'eurgh it's me really' & stabbed me (@Scriblit) November 21, 2017

Quite an amusing New Statesman article yesterday pointing out that Paperchase presumably know their customers and in any case *this is how the free market they usually love so much is supposed to work*. But I suspect most of this is primal fear of more advertisers following suit and their columns/paycheques disappearing.

the hypocrisy would be breathtaking if I hadn't lived with it for 40 years

I'd find this all more amusing if I didn't know its all going to kill the conversational vibe at family Xmas dinner this year.

when you reveal your wrapping paper was from Paperchase?

when you reveal your wrapping paper is the Daily Mail?

when you reveal your rapping granny is chasing paper?

when you reveal paper granny wrapping frozen elsa pregnant spider man?

there it is

fped you all FYI

with sellotape and knives

http://www.pressgazette.co.uk/british-journalism-awards-2017-nick-ferrari-is-journalist-of-the-year-full-list-of-winners/

British journalism is in a healthy state I see.

the envy of the world