British Right-Wing Pundits

it might have worked a treat for Julie. I don't know how publishing works but I presume she a got an advance on her book before it was cancelled. And now maybe she'll get another one! Or if not it's increased her profile much more than that execrable brexit play did. Lol I can remember when she was bigging up Patrick Marber as the greatest living UK playwright, around the time of Closer I think. For some ridiculous reason that play is on my bookshelf, my partner bought it at some point and when I was having a rubbish clear-out she wouldn't let me throw it in the burner where it belongs!

dark lols at me typing "cancer culture" and just spotting it before I hit submit btw

The problem I had with Closer was that every character was such an unbearable self-absorbed twat that it was hard to care about any of them, not surprised that JB identifies with it.

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nailed it!

xxp

your typing/editing skills are still much better than mine, Onimo. I miss out words all the time and often even if I check before I post I mentally add them when they aren't there!

one dialogue segment of Closer that Julie highlighted as classic playwright greatness was some corny as fuck line about how the human heart looks like a clenched fist... （´＊｀）

He was always good on "Knowing Me, Knowing You" though.

true yeah.. and also as the dim-witted reporter Peter O'Hanraha-hanrahan on the day today!

Very much so!

Only saw it once, but iirc this was the last of Marber being funny as a writer or performer: https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x5cbyjp

this you can't say anything these days line is older than me and it's as strong as ever after decades of people loudly saying all the things they insist they're not allowed to say

It was already mainstream in the 80s when I was a teen, eg media mockery of the "loony left", the GLC giving grants to black lesbian pottery groups, schoolchildren being made to sing Baa-Baa Green Sheep, "You can't call them 'manholes' now, you have to say 'person holes'", "right-on" alternative comedians forcing Bernard Manning and Jim Davidson off the air. Same old shit you hear today, and I'm sure older posters can give earlier examples.

"These days you get arrested for humming a Gracie Fields ditty... "

Did I @harry_m_h? Give referenced direct quotes, please. I think you may be mixing me up with the left-wing magazine 'Private Eye'. https://t.co/sPX7vCzFcq

— Peter Hitchens (@ClarkeMicah) January 5, 2021

had a chortle at "left-wing magazine 'Private Eye'" but as Mark S posted recently, he's completely correct about them being the top cranks for Dr Wakefield.

Aa proof that my dad is not reading my posts on ILX, he has bought me a subscription to Private Eye for Xmas, so I will be able to report what is in in through 2021 I suppose.

To start with: The Craig Brown parody in the bumper Xmas issue was a fairly nasty but not that well-done Peter Hitchens piss-take.

the MD column is excellent though, and acknowledges that the Eye got it wrong on MMR

Craig Brown has always been shit tbfttl

Same goes for the ex-Scotland manager of the same name.

I remember reading a whole book of Craig Brown and it was all like this, yes. The parodies in Viz (Tony Parsehole etc.) are much better.

CUNT

Just to save people asking me the same question, yes, I think there is a direct equivalence - moral and practical - between someone like Trump and someone like McDonnell. And I think acknowledging that honestly is an important part of how we move forward now.

— (((Dan Hodges))) (@DPJHodges) January 7, 2021

someone ought to take his other eye out, he only sees up his own arse anyway.

Just to save people asking me the question, yes, I think there is a direct equivalence - moral and practical - between someone like Trump and someone like Dan Hodges.

i just think hodges is an absolute, simon-pure idiot. one of those people a bit like lolico where there’s no point thinking about anything that he says other than for the lols and to note “this is what an idiot sounds like and says”.

yeah but at least lolico is so utterly ridiculous and clueless that he's mildly amusing at times. I've never laughed at this guy once, even when he's at the ridiculum full-moon stage.

I always marvel that Hodges came up with this, post-Sandy Hook, which is OTM, and yet everything else is absoulte drivel

In retrospect Sandy Hook marked the end of the US gun control debate. Once America decided killing children was bearable, it was over.

— (((Dan Hodges))) (@DPJHodges) June 19, 2015

'You can't say anything anymore' was a trope going strong in 2003 or so. I know because I used to hang around on a blog that took apart Daily Mail articles in fine detail. 'Political correctness' a term from Maoism, but been around since the 80s.

Those complaining about an alleged 'PC' in the 80s, 90s, 00s and 10s never, ever seemed to have any substance to me

Obvs many of the usual suspects continue to do so. As they're so used to making shit up, I doubt they've particularly noticed whatever is actually going on with this 'cancel culture'.

i love glenda jackson in marat/sade

she said she wouldn't live in the same building as her son "because of the stench". But unfortunately I don't think she was referring to his excremental views expressed in the Torygraph. Her politics are quite Blue Labour which probably isn't shocking for someone of her age.

i think they do live together now? in blackheath

can u imagine

oh right I read this from an old tweet.. lol!

I always forget who Hodges mother is and how ashamed of him she must be

she is a Kier stan though and said in an interview that although she liked Corbyn she thought he was unelectable because the British working classes are too conservative to accept someone like him. This was a while back though, and she might have changed her mind about Kier since!

i think she's probably like tired

glenda jackson impersonations are also fun and easy. "we are women. in love."

I'm not surprised after having to bring up such a heavyweight dumbbell! But just adding she is very much Blue Labour because I'm ruthless, even against old bastards, sorry but I have no sentiment for luvvies!

They live together, he’s mentioned it a few times this lockdown

My mum: “Are you going to be doing more stuff defending Cummings”. Me: “Yes”. My mum: “Then you’re an idiot”. So that’s going well then...

— (((Dan Hodges))) (@DPJHodges) May 26, 2020

Just explained to my mum that if I run low on Granola again I’ll be sending her out on an early morning suicide run to the supermarket. She took it well.*

* This is a joke. I don’t want anyone to commit suicide. Or breach the elderly only shopping slot.

— (((Dan Hodges))) (@DPJHodges) March 19, 2020

"Why is Dan in a newsagents buying Lynx" you wonder. Therein lies a tale. My mum: "When you're out, get me some cigarettes". Me: "I'm your only child. If I make an extra trip I may catch the virus". Mum: "With the sacrifices I've made you don't want to go there". I buy the fags.

— (((Dan Hodges))) (@DPJHodges) April 24, 2020

Dan I hear supermarkets sell cigs

What grown ass man buys himself Lynx ffs?

Imagine having one child, and that child being Dan Hodges.

It's going to take me a long time not to see that twitter handle as DJP

This morning, Peter Hitchens goes full-in on Paul Mason, hopefully they will both lose.

My latest Mail on Sunday column : pic.twitter.com/FQkEszCNV9

— Peter Hitchens (@ClarkeMicah) January 9, 2021

The worst.

If you don't think KS will advance the class struggle you're possibly not understanding social democracy correctly from a Marxist viewpoint

— Paul Mason (@paulmasonnews) April 8, 2020

this the most legendary Paul Mason tweet since Stoya come to Athens. It is a travesty it doesn't have 10 million likes!

Wtf is he talking about, is he pished all the time?

he's telling us Kier Starmer will advance the class struggle. Cancel the Specsavers appointment - that is indeed what it says.

I can't think of a Marxist analysis of social democracy that think it advances the class struggle tho, or depending on your flavour of Marx everything advances the class struggle

If you don't think Noske will advance the class struggle you're possibly not understanding social democracy correctly from a Marxist viewpoint

Was Douglas Murray complaining about the forthcoming Holocaust memorial covered anywhere? Not that I’ve seen, so here’s Portes:

The Holocaust Memorial should be opposed, because it might not endorse the @DouglasKMurray /Enoch Powell view that postwar nonwhite migration was a historic mistake, Murray argues.. pic.twitter.com/Wi6vuAi6lO

— Jonathan Portes (@jdportes) January 9, 2021

https://t.co/YNj646JGFA

— Jonathan Portes (@jdportes) January 9, 2021