British Right-Wing Pundits

he was right to presume they were Tory scum

new politico europe pod definitely worth listening to. Ben Judah describes crossing the alps with Syrian refugees and, when tasked with carrying an abandoned child, being reminded of Hegel—except this time the world spirit wasn’t Napoleon, but the child he was holding

— BO (@bo_austin_) August 11, 2023

If you want to understand what's going on in British media, you could do worse than GMB running heavily with a story about Meghan Markle being appointed to Diane Feinstein's seat, a seat that was filled two hours before GMB started airing. https://t.co/xbUma05ItY

— Tom (@TPGRoberts) October 2, 2023

quite literally arrested and thrown in jail merely for... insighting criminal damage???

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/oct/05/taki-theodoracopulos-given-12-month-suspended-sentence-for-attempted

do you think this means that the Spectator will finally stop publishing his column? It's barely coherent these days anyway (not that it was ever good, but)

there's a whole new generation of self-styled crypto-nazi gadflies they can replace him with now, anyway

There is a crisis in British politics, please resurrect my career.

This is big story of Labour conference: the sell-out to dubious businesses. The lobbyists; fringe meeting sponsors paying to make speeches; cash for access. And sod the unions. If only I still had a mic, a great cameraman, & an outlet. Please do it someone in TV or radio. https://t.co/AyEM2OfX0W

— Michael Crick (@MichaelLCrick) October 7, 2023

this it what corporate ghoul politicians predictably do, the time to have been shocked or alarmed was when they were taking over the Labour Party.

i'm still not really clear on when the Viz Top Tips fanboy decided he had important thoughts about politics tbh

for years now he has always been condescending at best and mostly dismissive towards people who post about how wretched and corrupt the Labour leadership and various frontbench MPs are. And now he wants to be given a paid platform to carry on being slow on the uptake and a clueless cunt!

The shocking moment Douglas Murray's interview with Piers Morgan is interrupted by overhead fire at the Gaza border.

Piers: "Are you ok?"

Douglas: "It seemed to be coming from Gaza. Yeah it's fine, it's okay, it's been happening all day."@piersmorgan | @DouglasKMurray pic.twitter.com/rYoIk23rky

— Piers Morgan Uncensored (@PiersUncensored) November 8, 2023

Why is Douglas Murray at the Israel-Gaza border? Other than the obvious reason of being as near as he can get to thousands of Muslims being killed?

Gaza, y’all only have to be lucky once.

https://order-order.com/2023/11/24/andrew-pierce-under-investigation-over-sexual-groping-allegations/

Sarah Vine dines at the Garrick club

Son and dear ex, not having travelled quite so far, are already ensconced in green leather button-backs. As we cross the threshold in there’s an alarming shout: ‘It’s that Sarah Vine!’ I turn to see Kwasi Kwarteng, sitting with his lovely wife Harriet and a third party who turns out to be their vicar, positively overflowing with festive cheer. That’s the joy of somewhere like the Garrick: you never know who you’re going to bump into. On that occasion, not just the former chancellor and his spirited spiritual guide but also, and in no particular order, Sting (yes, Sting), the heavenly Lord Howard of Rising, and the ‘baby doctor’ himself, Lord [Robert] Winston.

you go girl etc.

https://x.com/BethRigby/status/1755148799368904986?s=20

oh my god

Baroness Davidson of Lundin Links, I'd hoped we'd seen the last of her.

I could never work out wtf Rigby's accent is supposed to be. There was some bs in The Mail about the "speech snoberry" of ppl taking the piss out of her accent. She grew up in Buckinghamshire and attended a posh girls' grammar school - so perhaps snoberry is way off the mark.

lots of agreeing to agree going on here

It's because she leaves the g off words ending in -ing, like Priti Patel. It is very noticeable, perhaps because she otherwise doesn't have an especially strong accent.

Cannot think of another human, living or dead, who I despise more than Matthew Parris.

Jesus Christ Matthew Parris pic.twitter.com/OhsRVuH2Ts

— Scott Bryan (@scottygb) March 9, 2024

glad to hear from noted psychologist Matthew Parris

He's always been scum.

he has always been scum

the article is bullshit of course even on his own terms but journalism means never having to understand what you're writing about

Cunt.

there are ppl out there that buy into this taxpayers alliance style propaganda that disability and sickness benefits could do with dragging back to pre-welfare state levels of spending and let 'em die. I got banned from another site for laying into a bigoted moron for posting vile shit like MP. The coward deleted his post (and my reply ripping it to pieces) and then used his mod privileges to ban me, lol.

Burning all my Holly Valance records.

Valance, 40, told GB News she voted Conservative in the 2019 General Election but is now in favour of Richard Tice's party which recently welcomed MP Lee Anderson after he defected from the Tories.

"I support anybody that sort of sticks to what they believe in and isn't a turncoat," she said.

... errrrrrrrrr.

Racist member of the Serb diaspora, consider me shocked

Just a friendly sieg heil each morning,
Helps to make a better day.

isn't she Australian?

Serbian and Australian not a great combination tbh.

xp as I said, diaspora. Chetniks march in the ANZAC parade and their flags have shown up at tennis matches. Let’s just say they’re not too worried about the association.

I know, just saying that when a white immigrant to the UK starts coming out with anti-immigrant rhetoric then yeah it is really very obvious as regards racist (barely) subtext. notable also that her only big hit was a cover version of a Turkish hit.

https://www.ft.com/content/2bd751aa-e2bf-4ab6-a3d5-38fb5b571833

It is hard to establish cause and effect. Wars are so frequent that one can always be tied to a chronologically adjacent invention. Still, the west’s Long Peace more or less maps on to the stagnation that Cowen and others describe. And it is possible to theorise how war might serve as a stimulant. First, the trauma forces the imagination into new and strange places. Second, the resulting ideas are easier to sell because the ruling ideas are so tainted with blood. Third, the violence itself often gives rise to some kind of technical innovation.

In The Third Man, Orson Welles’s character observes that, while the warring states of the Italian peninsula gave us the Renaissance, serene Switzerland produced the “cuckoo clock”. (Harsh on Rousseau and Le Corbusier, that.) The film came out in 1949. A human lifetime later, he could be describing the entire western world. I am writing this on a MacBook that is much the same as the laptop I first owned a generation ago. People watch episodic TV shows, as they did in 1990, even if they do so on-demand. We who dine out most nights wait, in vain, for a new direction in the restaurant world. I now see all this sameness as the (dirt cheap) price of prolonged peace. I have no certainty that a war would be a creative stimulus, just a nauseous feeling that we are due to find out.

"our s
Obviously reactionary nutters have been writing "our society needs a war" ever since 1945, but it feels like there is a coordiation of drum-banging recently with all the conscription stuff. It's pretty chilling how desperately some people want to see Britain nuked in our lifetimes.
The above is obviously risible clickbait but I think it does lay bare some of the hidden arguments behind the acceptable liberal ones.

Who wrote that?

Janan Ganesh, sorry here's an archive link

https://archive.ph/XyWWZ

dying at 'in vain'

That Janan is breathing ought to be enough reason to bring back the guillotine.

the national service act can conscript those aged between 18-41, Janan is 42!

i was gonna say "the new fash are deeply into cosplay militarism" but of course we can take out the "new" from that. it's a central pillar of fascism full stop. if it looks a little more ridiculous now than it did in the 1920s maybe that's just because people can see thru their shit a little more clearly

What the fuck are pro-conscriptionists even imagining? Land battles in eastern Europe? What year is this?

It's like the end of Vile Bodies when were back in the world 1914 in exactly the same conditions, just 15 years later.

*world of 1914

Ugh. Fucking chickenhawk.

the third man line was bullshit that welles made up during filming. i wonder how many people have died due to that scene and the idiot warmongers who think it's fact.

The parenthetical right after basically acknowledges it’s bullshit! Not to mention that most normal people would agree that lime is not the hero of that film

Would you really feel any pity if a few million of those dots stop moving — forever?

Yes, it's a glib self-serving line by a glib self-serving character in movie. Also have we all forgotten the Affair of the Sausages?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Affair_of_the_Sausages