Not heard Gaunt. The last time I knew about Suzanne Moore was 10 years ago when she was writing shit for the Graun - lol class will out. I probably "enjoy" Hitchens' mentalism the most of these. Forsythe is always kinda fun too.
― Noodle Vague, Tuesday, 29 January 2008 10:32 (sixteen years ago) link
No Carole Malone?
― DJ Mencap, Tuesday, 29 January 2008 10:32 (sixteen years ago) link
Hastings I like less as a historian than Paul Johnson, who should've been on here if he's still alive.
― Noodle Vague, Tuesday, 29 January 2008 10:34 (sixteen years ago) link
Alive but insane
― Tom D., Tuesday, 29 January 2008 10:36 (sixteen years ago) link
Comes with the territory.
― Noodle Vague, Tuesday, 29 January 2008 10:37 (sixteen years ago) link
Suzanne Moore isn't right wing though; she's the Mail's Token Leftie "See We're Openminded Really" columnist.
Additionally, where is Nick Cohen band?
― Dingbod Kesterson, Tuesday, 29 January 2008 10:42 (sixteen years ago) link
Dude if you take the King's shilling then you're in the Army.
― Noodle Vague, Tuesday, 29 January 2008 10:43 (sixteen years ago) link
Also missing: Michael Gove and David "It's OK To Bomb Museums In Iraq So That Our Children Can Sleep Overnight In Our Museums EWWWWWWWW" Aaronovitch.
― Dingbod Kesterson, Tuesday, 29 January 2008 10:44 (sixteen years ago) link
L*uis J*gger (Cambridge) wrote at 11:45am saw some quality gaunt the other day. he had his say on the goth couple who weren't let on the bus for the girl wearing a dog lead. something along the lines of "in today's society they may have the right to do what they want, to offend human decency in this way. but should they also have the right to live unemployed in council houses and plan to raise a family?" asking all the right questions IMO
― Dom Passantino, Tuesday, 29 January 2008 12:27 (sixteen years ago) link
-- Dingbod Kesterson, Tuesday, 29 January 2008 10:42 (1 hour ago) Bookmark Link
The Eustonists really don't fit in with this list, feel free to start a poll for them.
― Dom Passantino, Tuesday, 29 January 2008 12:28 (sixteen years ago) link
even talksport trails and other talksport presenters take the piss out of jon gaunt. but they still employ him so screwfix Direct and vauxhall vans must like him.
― Frogman Henry, Tuesday, 29 January 2008 13:13 (sixteen years ago) link
Michael Gove, the original called out cockfarmer, is a shocking oversight. Aaronivitch and Cohen don't really fit. I went with BoJo, at least he can be funny.
― Matt DC, Tuesday, 29 January 2008 13:21 (sixteen years ago) link
Oh shit I suddenly realised I have voted for Boris Johnson in something.
Also no Kelvin Mackenzie!
― Matt DC, Tuesday, 29 January 2008 13:24 (sixteen years ago) link
Anyone remember that C4 current affairs/comedy programme in the early nineties with David Baddiel, Tracey McLeod and M Gove which was supposed to be the nineties' answer to TW3? I can't remember what it was called but it was terrible.
― Dingbod Kesterson, Tuesday, 29 January 2008 13:26 (sixteen years ago) link
Poor Tracey!
― Tom D., Tuesday, 29 January 2008 13:26 (sixteen years ago) link
I've just realised, one the genuinely certified mixed nuts has been missed out, Simon Heffalump.
― Frogman Henry, Tuesday, 29 January 2008 13:30 (sixteen years ago) link
And he is about as hateful as it gets.
Actually yeah leaving out Simon Heffer is like voting for your favourite Nazis without mentioning Hitler.
― Matt DC, Tuesday, 29 January 2008 13:31 (sixteen years ago) link
Heffer is politically on the right, being very critical of the European Union and New Labour, whilst being supportive of the 2003 invasion of Iraq. Heffer opposes almost all government intervention in the Economy and is against any national minimum wage. He also supports the death penalty. Culturally, however, he is of the Americosceptic Old Right rather than the pro-American Neoconservative/New Right, as can be seen through his criticism of the "hideous pop music" liked by David Cameron.[3] He has also written with pungency about the decline of tie-wearing among British men. Perhaps surprisingly, in the mid-1990s he was generally supportive of New Labour, due to his dissatisfaction with John Major and the Conservative Party at the time. Recently Heffer has written sympathetically of United Kingdom Independence Party (UKIP) and Nigel Farage.[4] However, he has also described himself as a Glastonian liberal.
Heffer believes that Christianity should have a strong role in shaping both the moral foundation of society and public policy, although he is an atheist.[5]
When the Home Office put Heffer on its Law and Order Task Force, left-wing politicians were concerned about the direction that criminal law reform might take, with human rights lawyer Baroness Kennedy saying that the government "had not just lost the plot but was handing the plotting over to their most feared critics."[6]
In 2004, Heffer wrote the unsigned editorial in The Spectator critical of Liverpudlian "vicarious victimhood", for which Boris Johnson was forced to apologize to the city.
In 2006, Heffer sharply criticised the film The Wind That Shakes The Barley, a movie by director Ken Loach about the Irish War of Independence [4] despite not having watched it.
In 2008, Heffer called for the United Nations to be strengthened, stating that: "If the UN ceases to be regarded by the larger powers as a institution to secure the peace of the world and justice therein, then that holds out all sorts of potential dangers."[7]
Quotes "Portugal has revealed itself to be little more than a banana republic through the handling of this case. Whether you have small children or not, you would be mad even to think of having a holiday there." [8], Simon Heffer writing in the The Daily Telegraph about the Case McCann, January 2008. "The evil that drug dealers do cannot be adequately punished under our present law; I would take a leaf out of China's book, and have them taken out and shot in the back of the head. That isn't going to happen. But using the laws we do have more effectively, applying them with zero tolerance, and making junkies pay - literally - for the damage they do to society would be a start. I fear, though, that it is already too late.", Simon Heffer writing in the The Daily Telegraph about Drug policy, January 2008.
― Frogman Henry, Tuesday, 29 January 2008 13:33 (sixteen years ago) link
Piece of work
Jimmy Young has a column does he?
"Ar-HAR Hanging. Is. Too. Good for them you see. Children of today need a short sharp shock, speaking of which here is Ray Davies and his Button Down Brass Raymondo."
― Dingbod Kesterson, Tuesday, 29 January 2008 13:34 (sixteen years ago) link
Didn't he have something esp. sensitive and insightful to say about the Ipswich prostitute murders? (xp)
― Tom D., Tuesday, 29 January 2008 13:35 (sixteen years ago) link
Here 'tis:
"... if drugs use is made more difficult, there will be fewer pushers. If there are fewer pushers then life will become harder for those further up the food chain.... there would still be tarts, and there would still be people who kill tarts. There would probably, though, be gratifyingly fewer of both."
― Tom D., Tuesday, 29 January 2008 13:40 (sixteen years ago) link
what value of 'favourite' are we on here?
― Alan, Tuesday, 29 January 2008 13:49 (sixteen years ago) link
-- Tom D., Tuesday, 29 January 2008 13:35 (15 minutes ago) Bookmark Link
Littlejohn on those murders was clearly a work of journalistic brilliance, up there with "J'Accuse" and "How It Feels To Be Forcibly Fed".
― Dom Passantino, Tuesday, 29 January 2008 13:53 (sixteen years ago) link
Prostitution seems to esp. rile middle-aged male right-wing hacks - I wonder why that would be?
― Tom D., Tuesday, 29 January 2008 13:56 (sixteen years ago) link
"Here lies a prostitute. Not someone who worked as a prostitute. A prostitute. Signed, Richard Littlejohn. A cunt. Not someone who works as a cunt. A cunt."
― That mong guy that's shit, Tuesday, 29 January 2008 13:59 (sixteen years ago) link
i vote for peter hitchens because he has goggly eyes and never seems to blink, ergo he is a giant goldfish
― DG, Tuesday, 29 January 2008 14:10 (sixteen years ago) link
went with BoJo, at least he can be funny.
that said, all of these people are right, right about everything. and they stand up to bullies.
― darraghmac, Tuesday, 29 January 2008 14:15 (sixteen years ago) link
uh.jpg
― DJ Mencap, Tuesday, 29 January 2008 14:15 (sixteen years ago) link
i know!
― Frogman Henry, Tuesday, 29 January 2008 14:20 (sixteen years ago) link
-- Dingbod Kesterson, Tuesday, 29 January 2008 13:26 (54 minutes ago) Bookmark Link
A Shot In The Dark, Lee and Herring's first TV scriptwriting gig.
― Dom Passantino, Tuesday, 29 January 2008 14:21 (sixteen years ago) link
a shout in the mouth amirite
― darraghmac, Tuesday, 29 January 2008 14:29 (sixteen years ago) link
What does that even mean?
― Dom Passantino, Tuesday, 29 January 2008 14:30 (sixteen years ago) link
it's an ancient navajo saying, meaning 'ban darramous'.
― That one guy that hit it and quit it, Tuesday, 29 January 2008 14:31 (sixteen years ago) link
everytime you do that you spell my name increasingly incorrectly.
― darraghmac, Tuesday, 29 January 2008 14:34 (sixteen years ago) link
It's like all the aspies, geeks and other cunts that never had a voice (quite rightly) before the internet have come together and bred through wires and the result is every single thread on ILX as a horrible vision of society in 20 years or less, when we forget we even have a front fucking door.
― DG, Tuesday, 29 January 2008 14:36 (sixteen years ago) link
man had a point
Ah Ned Ragget I've seen you on wiki. Bellend.
-- Don't Ban Darramouss (Darramouss), Friday, 2 February 2007 03:51 (11 months ago) Bookmark Link
― Dom Passantino, Tuesday, 29 January 2008 14:38 (sixteen years ago) link
ha. not me guys. i've never posted to ilm with any kind or regularity.
he seems a nice guy though.
― darraghmac, Tuesday, 29 January 2008 14:50 (sixteen years ago) link
Some ILM threads you could post on:
Skrewdriver videos Buju Banton - 'Til Shilo: C or D The Best MORRISSEY album
― Dom Passantino, Tuesday, 29 January 2008 14:53 (sixteen years ago) link
Is Darramouse Madeleine Bunting?
― Dingbod Kesterson, Tuesday, 29 January 2008 15:27 (sixteen years ago) link
i don't like morrissey, although clearly he has his finger on the pulse politically.
― darraghmac, Tuesday, 29 January 2008 16:49 (sixteen years ago) link
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/columnists/columnists.html?in_article_id=423549&in_page_id=1772&in_author_id=322&expand=true
― Bodrick III, Tuesday, 29 January 2008 18:54 (sixteen years ago) link
^real talk
― Dom Passantino, Tuesday, 29 January 2008 18:55 (sixteen years ago) link
He says what we're all thinking.
― Noodle Vague, Tuesday, 29 January 2008 18:56 (sixteen years ago) link
How the fuck was this printed in a national newspaper?
― Bodrick III, Tuesday, 29 January 2008 18:57 (sixteen years ago) link
THERE's A CLUE IN THE WEB ADDRESS
― Noodle Vague, Tuesday, 29 January 2008 19:24 (sixteen years ago) link
The men who used them were either too mean to fork out whatever a massage parlour charges, or simply weren't fussy. Some men are actually turned on by disgusting, drug-addled street whores. Where there's demand, there'll always be supply. P.S. I am wanking as I write this.
― gff, Tuesday, 29 January 2008 19:28 (sixteen years ago) link
Is Suzanne Moore right wing now? I haven't read anything by her since she wrote for Marxism Today c.1988 :/
― Stevie T, Tuesday, January 29, 2008 11:29 AM (1 year ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
suzennem with the blog war.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2009/mar/23/alastair-campbell-new-statesman
tbh s-mo is right. the NS can fuck off with alastair campbell as guest ed.
― FREE DOM AND ETHAN (special guest stars mark bronson), Monday, 23 March 2009 15:30 (fifteen years ago) link
i would've voted liz jones in the original poll due to her terrifying insanity
― lex pretend, Monday, 23 March 2009 15:45 (fifteen years ago) link
Nick Cohen v Peter Hitchens, at the Orwell Prize Debate.
― Pete W, Friday, 27 March 2009 14:41 (fifteen years ago) link
wait what?
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-1265077/GENERAL-ELECTION-2010-Suzanne-Moore-standing-Hackney-North--Stoke-Newington.html
(nb i don't think suze is rly "right wing" but this would have derailed the gen election thread etc etc)
― rolling stupid fruity crazy frog (history mayne), Wednesday, 28 April 2010 15:15 (fourteen years ago) link
aw shit son
― mdskltr (blueski), Wednesday, 28 April 2010 15:20 (fourteen years ago) link
SARAH SANDS
― sausage s4rgent (acoleuthic), Wednesday, 28 April 2010 15:24 (fourteen years ago) link
not that i care too much for diane abbott but i have to admit that i am kind of gleefully anticipating her reaction
― Tracer Hand, Wednesday, 28 April 2010 15:27 (fourteen years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/D3sMZyi.jpg
https://pbs.twimg.com/profile_images/719270140215435264/1APQGP65_400x400.jpg
― сверх (nakhchivan), Tuesday, 19 April 2016 23:44 (eight years ago) link
those are some english teeth up there
― Jerry Lee Lewis: The Total Film-Maker (stevie), Wednesday, 20 April 2016 07:40 (eight years ago) link
Hate speech imo, particularly as English teeth >>>>>> Irish teeth
― Daithi Bowsie (darraghmac), Wednesday, 20 April 2016 08:04 (eight years ago) link
oh dude i have the most english teeth so therefore i am allowed to say that
― Jerry Lee Lewis: The Total Film-Maker (stevie), Wednesday, 20 April 2016 08:22 (eight years ago) link
Young bones groan, and the rocks below say "Throw your skinny latte down, son"
― Interesting. No, wait, the other thing: tedious. (Trayce), Thursday, 21 April 2016 00:05 (eight years ago) link
Amazing that there was a Britain before Katie Hopkins, a mere eight years ago.
― the joke should be over once the kid is eaten. (chap), Thursday, 21 April 2016 11:16 (eight years ago) link
How many in the original poll, actual politicians aside, have more power (audience/influence-wise) now than then?
― nashwan, Thursday, 21 April 2016 11:57 (eight years ago) link
The political sketch writer Quentin Letts from Herefordshire has apologised for an article he wrote mocking the disability of broadcaster Andrew Marr.In a Daily Mail review of the new Robert Peston show on ITV, Letts described Marr as "Captain-Hop-Along, growling away on BBC One, throwing his arm about like a tipsy conductor".Marr had a stroke in January 2013.
― a poptimist consumed with celebrity culture and vacuous pop music (Noodle Vague), Monday, 9 May 2016 16:16 (eight years ago) link
https://twitter.com/thequentinletts/following
― nakhchivan, Monday, 9 May 2016 16:23 (eight years ago) link
Giles Coren has deleted his Twitter account as a result of vicious Momentum thugs/someone on the receiving end of one of his racist tantrums telling all (delete as applicable)
That Giles Coren has deleted his account after this exchange is one of those great Twitter tales, it truly is.@JosieLong who's tweet about the astoundingly bad people included in this new Times Radio thing & responded to the exchange below with incredible dignity, is awesome. pic.twitter.com/mrWV9eqy0u— Zoe Gardner (@ZoeJardiniere) June 2, 2020
― Neil S, Tuesday, 2 June 2020 19:48 (four years ago) link
rip big man
― french flaps, sparkly letters, all the bells and whistles (bizarro gazzara), Tuesday, 2 June 2020 20:01 (four years ago) link
Boris Johnson 2
― pomenitul, Tuesday, 2 June 2020 20:06 (four years ago) link
2 Boris 2 Quit
― Anti-Cop Ponceortium (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Tuesday, 2 June 2020 20:07 (four years ago) link
there's a dedicated giles coren thread iirc
― imago, Tuesday, 2 June 2020 20:31 (four years ago) link
dedicated to racism
― hip posts without flaggadocio (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 2 June 2020 20:34 (four years ago) link
... and we know who one of those two was.
― Is Lou Reed a Good Singer? (Tom D.), Tuesday, 2 June 2020 20:36 (four years ago) link
this is the true giles coren thread, linked at the point where his awfulness is thoroughly raked-through: Sub-editors: how can I avoid killing them?
― imago, Tuesday, 2 June 2020 20:37 (four years ago) link
also lol Matt DC is cancelled forever XD
― imago, Tuesday, 2 June 2020 20:38 (four years ago) link
lol soz Matt
― Is Lou Reed a Good Singer? (Tom D.), Tuesday, 2 June 2020 20:39 (four years ago) link
consistently repping for Hitchens for over 10 years :D
― hip posts without flaggadocio (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 2 June 2020 20:39 (four years ago) link
now you have calz to help! :D
― imago, Tuesday, 2 June 2020 20:41 (four years ago) link
obviously if the fbook post of mine dom helpfully retrieved wasn't heavily sarcastic i am very cancelled too. fortunately i am choosing to believe that it was
― imago, Tuesday, 2 June 2020 20:42 (four years ago) link
lol
The full exchange. Good grief. pic.twitter.com/0jpL7WKcYV— rhys (@rhysjeffs) June 2, 2020
The convo in full btw. At least he took Fiona fucking Bruce down with him.
― Le Bateau Ivre, Wednesday, 3 June 2020 12:05 (four years ago) link