I have always maintained that Mathew Parris is the absolute worst of this group of terrible people.
This is disgusting and just the latest example of The Times attacking GRT people — a minority who are never given a voice in the national press and are endlessly vilified. pic.twitter.com/hHOuIkr77i— Mic Wright 🏳️🌈🌋🏴☠️ (@brokenbottleboy) May 15, 2021
― A viking of frowns, (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Saturday, 15 May 2021 08:04 (two years ago) link
didn't he grow up in Southern Rhodesia? Vile man. There probably were identical articles in that 30's party's house newspaper
― calzino, Saturday, 15 May 2021 08:12 (two years ago) link
he's very polite though
― calzino, Saturday, 15 May 2021 08:22 (two years ago) link
I find his "polite reasonable sensible thinker" shtick deeply fucking sinister.
― A viking of frowns, (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Saturday, 15 May 2021 08:29 (two years ago) link
BRWP just love telling you things have "gone too far" when what they mean is someone disagrees with them.
― remind me not to read the comments on that one (Matt #2), Saturday, 15 May 2021 08:42 (two years ago) link
It's time we stopped pandering to commentators. Indulging those who claim to be journalists by giving them designated sites and verified account status has gone too far.
― I was born anxious, here's how to do it. (ledge), Saturday, 15 May 2021 08:57 (two years ago) link
you get some horrific guest/nominee combinations with this creep on Great Lives, but lol I still listen to it. I can't remember if the true nadir was Timothy Mallet doing Richard The Lionheart or Al Murry choosing Monty.
― calzino, Saturday, 15 May 2021 09:23 (two years ago) link
Woke Soubz says this piece is spot on, what exactly was "woke" about her? That she was friends with Chuka maybe.
― calzino, Saturday, 15 May 2021 09:28 (two years ago) link
I cannot listen to a minute of Great Lives, it judt seems like an exercise in MP setting himself up as an arbiter of worthiness, second-worst thing on R4 after The Moral Maze.
― A viking of frowns, (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Saturday, 15 May 2021 09:31 (two years ago) link
OTM.
― Are Animated Dads Getting Hotter? (Tom D.), Saturday, 15 May 2021 09:38 (two years ago) link
I feel quite attacked when one of my heroes is featured on GL, but yet still I listen and know it isn't doing me any good!
― calzino, Saturday, 15 May 2021 09:39 (two years ago) link
@michaelrosenyes The Tory Party has been a party of the left since it adopted Blairism under Cameron. One day you might get it. https://t.co/Ll2UjvqKT4— Peter Hitchens (@ClarkeMicah) May 30, 2021
Hitchens is having a heated discussion with Michael Rosen!
― calzino, Sunday, 30 May 2021 20:59 (two years ago) link
his completely addled version of recent history includes: that Blair was a Eurocommunist, so was Cameron and the BBC amongst many other British institutions has been infiltrated by the left. Some proof of this is that the BBC don't often invite him back these days.
― calzino, Sunday, 30 May 2021 21:07 (two years ago) link
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/E3XnEdaXoAEn0rz?format=jpg&name=large
cancelled again, too racist even for the Torygraph.
― calzino, Tuesday, 8 June 2021 15:10 (two years ago) link
still trying to edgelord in your sixties - that is beyond tragic.
― calzino, Tuesday, 8 June 2021 15:21 (two years ago) link
lol, jfc at both of those. It's such a shame cancel culture never fucking sticks.
― emil.y, Tuesday, 8 June 2021 15:30 (two years ago) link
oh she'll still get plenty of work in the UK media. It's slightly surprisingly that the Torygraph actually have a line on racism that you can't cross, probably a difficult line to define but it's obv there!
― calzino, Tuesday, 8 June 2021 15:39 (two years ago) link
you've got to do polite racism like Parris does.
― calzino, Tuesday, 8 June 2021 15:41 (two years ago) link
you can do all the racism you like in the telegraph but you can't say that a ROYAL baby named after HER MAJESTY and PRINCESS DIANA OF ALL OUR HEARTS should instead be named "Georgina Floydina" - she should have saved her shit fucking joke for the baby of a musician or an actor, her editor would have loved it.
― A viking of frowns, (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Tuesday, 8 June 2021 16:05 (two years ago) link
she probably thought it was open
― calzino, Tuesday, 8 June 2021 16:28 (two years ago) link
season (that fucking couple) and no rules applied.
― calzino, Tuesday, 8 June 2021 16:29 (two years ago) link
fuck giles coren
― A viking of frowns, (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Tuesday, 20 July 2021 14:21 (two years ago) link
if you've lucked into the job of going to fancy restaurants for a living you'd think you'd count yr blessings and try to be a somewhat affable presence
― Daniel_Rf, Tuesday, 20 July 2021 14:32 (two years ago) link
he's deleted the tweet, the disgusting little weasel
― Neil S, Tuesday, 20 July 2021 15:14 (two years ago) link
people rightfully hated a a gill but he never did anything even 10% as vile as this cunt.
― A viking of frowns, (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Tuesday, 20 July 2021 15:18 (two years ago) link
yeah A A was a decent human being next to this disgusting little piece of shit
― MoMsnet (calzino), Tuesday, 20 July 2021 15:26 (two years ago) link
https://i2-prod.leeds-live.co.uk/news/leeds-news/article20486330.ece/ALTERNATES/s1200c/0_Danny-MalinJPG.jpg
^^^
the only affable right-wing food critic in the UK iirc
― MoMsnet (calzino), Tuesday, 20 July 2021 15:31 (two years ago) link
― MoMsnet (calzino), Tuesday, 20 July 2021 15:32 (two years ago) link
what did he say
― bobo honkin' slobo babe (sic), Tuesday, 20 July 2021 15:36 (two years ago) link
He didn’t “sign into the wrong account”. The left was his first draft and the right is what he genuinely thought would be fine pic.twitter.com/nO6YeOUNXo— Ciara McShane (@Ciara87C) July 20, 2021
― Neil S, Tuesday, 20 July 2021 15:38 (two years ago) link
Lol
I'm used to terrible people thriving but if there is no sanction for Coren's obscene cruelty, then that will be a moral failure even by the standards of the columnist circuit.— Dorian Lynskey (@Dorianlynskey) July 20, 2021
― xyzzzz__, Tuesday, 20 July 2021 17:28 (two years ago) link
I'm guessing the Coren comment was about Dawn? So the follow up guess is that DL probably called fuck out of her for most of her politics throughout her career
But maybe this is the non-liberal bit of my brain being illiberal
― Southgate Serves Imperialism (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 20 July 2021 17:44 (two years ago) link
one of my fave Dawn memorial anecdotes of the last few days was that she got quite drunk at some Graun do and made some pretty rum comments to many of them, including calling Will Self a nonce! I'm sure DL was completely up in arms when his employers sacked her whilst she was in hospital.
― MoMsnet (calzino), Tuesday, 20 July 2021 17:52 (two years ago) link
Just two Times columnists who want to get to the truth about (checks notes) exonerating the Luftwaffe for Guernica pic.twitter.com/6eh1occm1P— Flying_Rodent (@flying_rodent) July 28, 2021
I'd never heard of regular Times columnist Gerald Warner before he wrote this repulsive fascist apologia for Reaction. Even though this is the least of his crimes here, anyone calling Guernica "Picasso's daub" in the year 2021 definitely deserves to be taken very seriously.
― calzino, Thursday, 29 July 2021 07:45 (two years ago) link
heartbreaking that woke snowflake cancel culture now means that people can't express support in the media for Fascism
― mogwai oh wai oh wai (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 29 July 2021 07:55 (two years ago) link
Iain Martin, another blot on Paisley's reputation, though you'd never guess from his accent.
'Gerald Warner' is also Scottish.
He has written about being part of that "dwindling band of individualists who persist in defying the zeitgeist" by wearing a monocle.
― Wouldn't disgrace a Michael Jackson (Tom D.), Thursday, 29 July 2021 07:57 (two years ago) link
Scottish unionists, great bunch o' lads, wha's like them?
― Wouldn't disgrace a Michael Jackson (Tom D.), Thursday, 29 July 2021 07:59 (two years ago) link
300 not 1600 dead hmm I wonder if this person disputes any other massacres, genocides
― nashwan, Thursday, 29 July 2021 08:56 (two years ago) link
Iain Martin is also one of the highly esteemed Orwell Prize judges: "Britain’s most prestigious Prize for political writing".
― calzino, Thursday, 29 July 2021 09:16 (two years ago) link
you say yr a fan of the orwell prize, name five of its winners
― mark s, Thursday, 29 July 2021 09:23 (two years ago) link
answers will surprise you
they're ALL fascists
It may be a step too far to attempt a rehabilitation of David Irving's *astonishing* body of work, but a regular Times column and a slot on GBTV wouldn't seem so beyond the pale these days!
― calzino, Thursday, 29 July 2021 09:51 (two years ago) link
Your reminder that Evelyn Waugh and others were very open in their support for Franco. pic.twitter.com/E4awMKUt4m— Ken Pasok (@paulewart23) July 29, 2021
https://open.bu.edu/handle/2144/15314
interesting thread here and you can download a dossier on the author's replies from that link
― calzino, Thursday, 29 July 2021 11:31 (two years ago) link
Aleister Crowley calls Franco a pirate and a common murderer and then suggests Hitler may prove to be a prophet!
― calzino, Thursday, 29 July 2021 11:36 (two years ago) link
boo at that book cover not splitting the authors into two rows so I can instantly know, do they think I got all day
― Daniel_Rf, Thursday, 29 July 2021 11:53 (two years ago) link
some of them are quite amusing, one of them (Nevison whoever the fuck he is)) denounces fascism and also complains that it's a great threat to British Empire interests in the Mediterranean.
― calzino, Thursday, 29 July 2021 12:00 (two years ago) link
the "definitely against" row is p short (just five names) -- saddest inclusion for me there is arthur machen tbh, not that i'd quickly turn to him for political recommendations
the "neutral?" row is 15 ppl both-sidesing it like it was going out of fashion, including an extremely melty wells and (lol) a typically demented ezra pound posting thru it like the michael tracey of his day except he can supposedly read mandarin
(pound isn't neutral at all of course, he just thinks that the important thing to be mad about is that everyone involved is a liberal sap)
― mark s, Thursday, 29 July 2021 12:03 (two years ago) link
Ruby M. AyresUNINFORMED INTERFERENCE in international politics is more to be dreaded than any anticipated danger resulting from conflict in Spain.As a professional writer I dread amateurs.
UNINFORMED INTERFERENCE in international politics is more to be dreaded than any anticipated danger resulting from conflict in Spain.
As a professional writer I dread amateurs.
hah hah! it's not armies and bullets that kill people, it's posting!
― calzino, Thursday, 29 July 2021 13:05 (two years ago) link
Pound's take on the politics was funny and expected, the extremity of the antisemitic frothing was horribly new to me - like Eliot he toned it down for the poetry ffs
― mogwai oh wai oh wai (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 29 July 2021 13:36 (two years ago) link