British Right-Wing Pundits

perhaps pretending to know fuck all about what they've been podcasting, writing books and Unherd/Spectator/NS pieces about for years is a clever ploy to get more clicks than they'd otherwise get. It might work in the short term but it renders everything else they've ever wrote as the work of ignorant imbeciles!

this dynamic duo, with a history of dismissing people who refer to "neoliberalism" as ignorant lefty plebs who lack nuance, unlike smartest balds in the room like them.

A lot of ppl also say that grifter is just a boo-word meaninglessly applied to anyone you don’t like but now they can listen to this podcast and realise it’s not only real but ubiquitous and dominant

Absolutely obsessed with this tweet

Oh and there’s also a doubling of something odd called ‘scromiting’. That’s screaming and vomiting which lasts for weeks on end, with no treatment. A result of long term use of high potency cannabis.

— Eve Simmons (@EveSimmns) July 2, 2022

I'm poscromiting as I tpye tihs

(posting, scraemnig & vmoiting)

her following up with complaints about being "burnt at the stake" after some people laughed at her on Twitter was also *chef's kiss*

christ how old is she? she obviously never watched brasseye

Mail writers are all born in their mid 40s

Morning pic.twitter.com/3g1mKgPOhS

— Roland Smith 🇺🇦 (@rolandmcs) July 7, 2022

Gives him time to get the treehouse built I guess

Oops wrong thread

I'm sure he'll be a RWP shortly, if not immediately, if not he's one already.

Just a massive failure of character. Novara are well funded, he doesn't need the money.

Are you finding a way to “cleverly” make socialist arguments to conservatives, or are you legitimating arguments that are not only utterly grim but are having extensive effects in the here and now? pic.twitter.com/ayg1hcLjmZ

— Tom Gann (@Tom_Gann) July 19, 2022

itll go herder*

*unherder

Hmm

Jesus Christ, Terry. pic.twitter.com/LT1qfOscNv

— Elvis Buñuelo (@Mr_Considerate) July 19, 2022

is it the heat or is this actual gibberish? does he always write like this?

i don't expect marxism from unherd but i do expect some kind of (reactionary) thesis - i can't find any politics here at all just a bunch of words

solid enough burn on prince andrew though

At moments like this, I like to remind myself of Lionel Trilling's distinction between 'fluent' and 'articulate'. Terry, like Boris, has been fluent for too long without remotely articulating anything.

the next tweet nails it

👍

With respect D: you 😊

— Omid Djalili (@omid9) July 20, 2022

yeah been very nice to see Omid come out on the side of good, wonder if appearing on Alexei Sayle's podcast was in some way a catalyst

Lol

In fairness, shouldn’t articles by ⁦@JGForsyth⁩ promoting Sunak for Prime Minister not carry a disclaimer?🤔

‘At university together, best man at my wedding, godparents to children… etc, etc?’ https://t.co/ilrgbuziKu

— Nadine Dorries (@NadineDorries) July 22, 2022

Telegraph proprietor Fred Barclay arriving in court today, where he is is accused by his ex-wife of failing to pay a £100m divorce settlement pic.twitter.com/uTuxbqkgby

— Matthew Garrahan (@MattGarrahan) July 28, 2022

fucking state of those trousers!

Better dead than red

"I am in the red"

spot the pattern :
- not paying divorce settlement
- not paying any uk tax
no wonder boris loves this paper so much.

I’m totally fascinated by the question of what it’s like to be the author of one of these “having no food, heating or electricity is good, actually!” pieces. Are they cynically cashing in? Totally self deluded? Classic British masochists? pic.twitter.com/NQlHfESh6l

— Marika (@MarikaRose) August 18, 2022

I’m totally fascinated by the question of what it’s like to be the author of one of these “having no food, heating or electricity is good, actually!” pieces. Are they cynically cashing in? Totally self deluded? Classic British masochists? pic.twitter.com/NQlHfESh6l

— Marika (@MarikaRose) August 18, 2022

Which reminds me that we haven't seen anyone smirking about how birth rates supposedly spike 9 months after a blackout. (They actually tend to go down.)

microwaving tinned spaghetti hoops from the foodbank before you run out of power is a hell of an aphrodisiac

Ye gods, could Irish right-wing pundits actually be worse? You won't be able to read this because it's paywalled but you really don't want to anyway, believe me.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2022/08/18/osullivans-law-strikes-back-publishing-worlds-woke-takeover/

The Daily Telegraph in general seems to be maniacally fixated on two subjects: "woke" and the SNP/Nicola Sturgeon.

... and to prove my point, this absolutely insane column by leading Brexit bonehead David Frost. Again paywalled but, take my word for it, the SNP should be printing this up and dropping from aircraft over Scotland come the next referendum.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2022/08/19/snp-has-defeated-not-appeased/

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2022/aug/21/journalists-at-rightwing-daily-express-set-to-strike-over-pay

sure I guess

the tories will be fixing to defund journalism degrees next, you could earn more being a floor layer or a shit shoveler (same skillset) so what's the point ... etc.

old enough to be unconvinced journalism degrees have been at all good for journalism

(not that the previous route up thru the office from local paper glue-boy to multinational editor-in-chief will ever be accessible again either)

People who had safe reporter jobs in local rags up to late 20th century, like doing the match reports for local football team or roving reporter on the crown green bowling league or whatever. And getting a comfortable wage for doing it. Shit, it must all seem like an impossible dream now.

come on guys, don't be down, there's absolutely a future for journalism in the UK, as part of a revolving door buddy system with finance and the conservative party

the editor at my local rag - Wayne Anker probably doesn't have a safe job. But nominative determinism and all that, he has a big future in the game.

just realised i had somehow been recently unfollowed from the shropshire star on twitter, another grim sign of decline

lest we forget:

County councillor in resurfacing row https://t.co/cGVpTXJI7M pic.twitter.com/8J7dVLzG2T

— SHROPSHIRE (@DailySHROPSHIRE) August 14, 2019

awestruck that Wayne Anker is real

it's real

but honestly, that really is his name

i googled him!

OMGLOL

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Feyv_A4WIAA86ny?format=jpg&name=900x900

Imagine if you will being a student and paying money to see Mike Graham talk

If you thought removing miniature #Bounty bars from Celebrations was distressing, then just wait until you see the world’s shittest selection box. pic.twitter.com/2h7wqZPREw

— Miffy (@miffythegamer) November 3, 2022

improve the quality of UK discourse with this one simple IED