British Right-Wing Pundits

Ron Liddle took a day off from the usual race-hate peddling yesterday in the ST for his other pet subject: that made up condition ME and the pathetic malingerers who claim to be afflicted with it. He needs to be put down in most brutally painful fashion rather than OJ (who I think is a complete wazzock as well tbh!).

Today: why does Owen Jones talk about the media like it applied to everybody? Saturday: have you seen Janice Turner's fantastic piece about the left?

— The Justin Horton Show (@ejhchess) March 18, 2019

Exactly. And let’s not forget JT’s husband is Exec Ed of the Sunday Times, so it’s up to him what goes in the paper. BTW, his father was Peter Preston, so I bet he rates himself as ‘liberal’.

Urgh

They forget the whole seeking truth aspect of journalism, eh.

Fraser Nelson is apparently suffering from false memory syndrome

How absurd. The standard phrase “cultural Marxism” - so old I was taught about it at uni - is labelled an antisemetic conspiracy theory (the power of Wikipedia editing!). So an MP with a Jewish husband is cast as an antisemite. https://t.co/hX0JLCxrft

— Fraser Nelson (@FraserNelson) March 27, 2019

Can’t believe the guy who publishes Taki might have a blind spot about antisemitism.

he's being dragged in an entertaining fashion

Curious to know in which module Fraser Nelson encountered the claim that Adorno and Horkheimer were principally concerned with introducing trigger warnings to American universities.

— Will Davies (@davies_will) March 27, 2019

"so old" wow did Fraser go to uni back in those halcyon days when there was never such a thing as anti-semitism?

it's also bollocks- "cultural Marxism" is a recent invention of alt-right/4Chan/Q-Anon types used to denigrate anything they deem "PC gone mad", there was no such phrase, though of course anti-Semitic dog-whistling has long been used as a method to discredit Frankfurt School theorists and others

thankfully Andrew Lilico is here to sort things out

The term "cultural Marxism" refers to a form of Marxism that is cultural. Saying "You can't combine 1 adjective & 1 noun in their natural way cos an antisemite once combined them" is utterly absurd.

— Andrew Lilico (@andrew_lilico) March 27, 2019

"a form of Marxism that is cultural" just savouring that particular phrase

Lollico absolutely will not settle for someone else having the most stupid take

Nuremberg Laws. the name of a Bavarian City with a noun.

OH GOOD GRIEF. #bbctw pic.twitter.com/sYOUIqrwKw

— Andi (@AndiMcLellan) March 29, 2019

Fair warning, this clip will make you want to pour bleach in your eyes and then torch the remaining flesh in the sockets.

fp

jesus fucking christ i did 5 seconds abolish the licence fee now

;_;

not with a bang, but with an andrew neil verse

There’s something there but he needs to spend more time refining his style if he wants to be a compelling rapper

EVERYBODY BE COOL AND NOBODY GETS FP'd

made it 12 seconds with the sound off

Christ.

not clicking that but I do like the sleazy Non Stop Erotic Cabaret, Soho at night vibes of Brillo Pad's set there

you... like it?

truly the human heart is fathomless

I feel... a strange attraction

3 seconds

Is a producer deliberately sabotaging this show? Feel like most people involved with it must realise how awful this is, maybe they just hate Andrew Neil, in which case fair enough I suppose.

Brillo Pad does not need sabotaging, he can do it very well on his own, thank you very much.

Non-Brexit News: I enjoyed writing a book so much that I’ve decided to write full-time. So after eight (!) brilliant years at the @NewStatesman I’m joining @TheAtlantic as a staff writer from July, covering the big shifts in the world, from populism to feminism.

— Helen Lewis (@helenlewis) March 29, 2019

PLEASE RT: Today I have obtained a Court Order compelling Mumsnet Limited @MumsnetTowers to release the identification details of one of their users. The days of defaming, abusing, And harassing #transgender people on #Mumsnet behind the cloak of anonymity are over, #law pic.twitter.com/702YMg4vts

— Stephanie Hayden (@flyinglawyer73) April 8, 2019

The Times has been at the forefront of this shit in the broadsheets - I’m sure Janice Turner shits out another piece each week - and mumsnet has been an absolute shitshow of this for a long time. I’m not exaggerating when I say some of the discourse on there is too fucking awful even by the standards of k*w*farms.

Today the Times posted an absolute disgrace of a story - after them making up so many things the last year I’m not inclined to give them any benefit of the doubt - and this headline was fucking disgraceful. This is section 28 scaremongering again, and it has real consequences for the safety of trans people in the UK.

The Times: Calls to end transgender ‘experiment on children’ #tomorrowspaperstoday pic.twitter.com/tXBPlAtlYS

— Helena Lee (@BBCHelenaLee) April 7, 2019

tl;dr fuck the Timea, fuck Mumsnet, I wish only bad things on them.

I had a meeting once in a Sure Start centre down the road. On the walls were blue tacked up inspirational quotes from anon from Mumsnet, Jo Cox and Steve Jobs!

times is a rag

jfc

‘But I need to take something back for family,’ he says, ‘souvenir, something they like. You can give me some money?’ I tell him I really have to go, and I only have a little cash. I reach for my wallet and give him 60. Not enough. He sees I have more. I end up giving him £100. 8

— David Aaronovitch (@DAaronovitch) February 7, 2020

I was going to make this joke, but on checking it has obvious already been done, so here it is

People might laugh at this but they are wilfully ignoring the persuasive ability of the wallet inspector when he (or indeed she) looks you dead in the eye and says; "wallet, please". https://t.co/Tl5dgzWAn0

— Dr Robert 'Rob' Zands PhD (@DrRobertZands) February 7, 2020

BRB, going to Primark then London

the fact that he doesn't know how to thread makes this even better. what a dafty

Amazing how David views every utterance of a Labour MP with a gimlet eye, but falls for an obvious fucking scam like it’s his first day in town?!?!

Oh my fucking God

I really don't think I'll ever get over seeing David Aaronovitch ask Twitter user LordMohnOfJann for technical support in response to being called a "credulous dickhead", fantastic thread https://t.co/9zC0RFFAdh

— Daniel (@Unelectable_bot) February 7, 2020

imagine taking advice of somebody who has mortally insulted you!

BRB, going to Primark then London

As an editor who has worked on several British newspapers, I have been caught in an elaborate street scam causing me to publish articles by a man calling himself 'David Aaronovitch' for the past 30 years

— Rosewood Shoehorn (@apiarism) February 7, 2020

good to see that aaronovitch has learned his lesson from his support of the iraq war and is now much more careful about not being easily hoodwinked by the thinnest veneer of obvious bullshit

lol look at these google results i just got, the evolution of a
galaxy brain in action

https://i.imgur.com/DmYZrgx.jpg

Can’t believe that I’m so behind in reading the Express that I missed this article, when one of the columnists of a national newspaper that regularly moans about snowflakes used *an entire page* to throw a complete shit-fit about not getting her coffee served warm enough pic.twitter.com/w1OfMsUnTt

— Pointless Letters (@pointlesslettrs) March 22, 2020

from that distant country that was February 2020!

Say what you like about British right-wing pundits but we've now got one running the country.

would be happy to see carole malone gasping for air tbh

i think one of her recent pieces was along the lines of: phew, thank god Corbyn isn't PM during this time of national crisis and .. blah blah.. I don't think it is controversial to say Corbyn has a good record of putting people before GDP.

She is an especially vile specimen.

The bar is sinking rapidly through the earth’s course and making good time for the core.
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