British Right-Wing Pundits

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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...

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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

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British journalism is in a healthy state I see.

the envy of the world

Coren counts as a right-wing pundit, no? literally can't imagine a less appealing front page splash than this:

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Jfc. Coren's insufferable.

Another one of those "writers" making money over their baby's back.

*dad's

aye

yeah he's the one thing that puts me off marrying Victoria

He's a troll. That's all he is. On some level he must know it, and I hope it causes him deep, profound and insurmountable displeasure.

ha, I always thought he came across as oddly thin-skinned and hurt by criticism for someone whose whole schtick is trolling? I sometimes get the impression that he is someone who genuinely has these thoughts and opinions that he knows are considered beyond the pale and is troubled by this, so he tries to exorcise the anxiety by expressing the thoughts/opinions in a faux-trolly way, but his heart is not really in it - imo Coren doesn't actually enjoys riling Libs a la Rod Liddle or Toby Young, he wants to be liked too much.

giles coren is so london

every generation gets the samuel pepys it deserves

giles coren is so london

this is slanderous upon London imo

manchester offers ample scope for a reprisal tbf

"giles coren is so london" is so manchester

nowadays I suppose Samuel Pepys would be regarded as sexual harassment in our politically correct Airstrip One

lol at the idea that London isn't Ground Zero for this particular type of cunt tho

tru

North London tbf

where else could forge a giles coren

xp very, very tru :D

enjoy wembley btw ;_____;

where else could forge a giles coren

Oxford, where he studied?

i'd never have imagined such a paragon of london-awfulness might have gone to oxford

Not to be confused with Giles Corey, a defendant at the Salem Witch Trials.

The British media is so London. In fact, the UK is so London.

More too London than so London.

'Was I an absolute prince,' he would say, pulling up his breeches with both his hands, as he rose from his arm-chair, 'I would appoint able judges, at every avenue of my metropolis, who should take cognizance of every fool's business who came there;—and if, upon a fair and candid hearing, it appeared not of weight sufficient to leave his own home, and come up, bag and baggage, with his wife and children, farmer's sons, &c. &c. at his backside, they should be all sent back, from constable to constable, like vagrants as they were, to the place of their legal settlements.

According to the law at the time, a person who refused to plead could not be tried. To avoid persons cheating justice, the legal remedy for refusing to plead was "peine forte et dure". In this process the prisoner is stripped naked, with a heavy board laid on his body. Then rocks or boulders are laid on the plank of wood. This was the process of being pressed:[10]

...remanded to the prison from whence he came and put into a low dark chamber, and there be laid on his back on the bare floor, naked, unless when decency forbids; that there be placed upon his body as great a weight as he could bear, and more, that he hath no sustenance, save only on the first day, three morsels of the worst bread, and the second day three draughts of standing water, that should be alternately his daily diet till he died, or, till he answered.

As a result of his refusal to plead, on September 17, Sheriff George Corwin led Corey to a pit in the open field beside the jail and in accordance with the above process, before the Court and witnesses, stripped Giles of his clothing, laid him on the ground in the pit, and placed boards on his chest. Six men then lifted heavy stones, placing them one by one, on his stomach and chest. Giles Corey did not cry out, let alone make a plea.

After two days, Giles was asked three times to plead innocent or guilty to witchcraft. Each time he replied, "More weight." More and more rocks were piled on him, and the Sheriff from time to time would stand on the boulders staring down at Corey's bulging eyes. Robert Calef, who was a witness along with other townsfolk, later said, "In the pressing, Giles Corey's tongue was pressed out of his mouth; the Sheriff, with his cane, forced it in again."[11]

Three mouthfuls of bread and water were fed to the old man during his many hours of pain. Finally, Giles Corey cried out "More weight!" and died. Supposedly, just before his death, he cursed Sheriff Corwin and the entire town of Salem.[12] He was 81.

The realest of England

gonna give that one to the USA tbf

't Was British North America iirc but fair

Coren isn't a troll per se, just yet another dude with nothing worthwhile to say* (except perhaps about restaurants) who has nevertheless decided to make a living from opinion journalism.

*Or at least an opinion about everything and insight into nothing.

who has nevertheless decided to make a living from opinion journalismassholism.