British Right-Wing Pundits

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.

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.

Woke Soubz says this piece is spot on, what exactly was "woke" about her? That she was friends with Chuka maybe.

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.

I have always maintained that Mathew Parris is the absolute worst of this group of terrible people.

OTM.

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!

@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!

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.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/E3XnEdaXoAEn0rz?format=jpg&name=large

cancelled again, too racist even for the Torygraph.

still trying to edgelord in your sixties - that is beyond tragic.

lol, jfc at both of those. It's such a shame cancel culture never fucking sticks.

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!

you've got to do polite racism like Parris does.

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.

she probably thought it was open

season (that fucking couple) and no rules applied.

fuck giles coren

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

he's deleted the tweet, the disgusting little weasel

people rightfully hated a a gill but he never did anything even 10% as vile as this cunt.

yeah A A was a decent human being next to this disgusting little piece of shit

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^^^

the only affable right-wing food critic in the UK iirc

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

what did he say

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

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

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

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.

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.

heartbreaking that woke snowflake cancel culture now means that people can't express support in the media for Fascism

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.

Scottish unionists, great bunch o' lads, wha's like them?

300 not 1600 dead hmm I wonder if this person disputes any other massacres, genocides

Iain Martin is also one of the highly esteemed Orwell Prize judges: "Britain’s most prestigious Prize for political writing".

you say yr a fan of the orwell prize, name five of its winners

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!

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

Aleister Crowley calls Franco a pirate and a common murderer and then suggests Hitler may prove to be a prophet!

boo at that book cover not splitting the authors into two rows so I can instantly know, do they think I got all day

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.

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)

Ruby M. Ayres

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!

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

Lol, the "watch your tone" in this:

Norman Douglas "I DON’T KNOW WHAT TO SAY about your questionnaire. I cannot excite myself over nations and causes and creeds—my contempt for humanity in general is too great. Individuals are the only things that interest me. If Spaniards like to cut each other’s
239 throats and get Germans and Russians to help them—why not let them? It’s not my affair. If they eat each other up to the last man, like Kilkenny cats, let them! This will sound unsatisfactory to you. But if you want the truth, there it is..."

Douglas is best remembered for his novel
South Wind (1917) and his feud with D. H. Lawrence (1885–1930), exemplified in the
polemic D. H. Lawrence and Maurice Magnus: a Plea for Better Manners (1925)

239 throats?

rude? d h lawrence
not rude at all? saying spaniards can eat each other

RE Pound: "the stank of England" just doesn't sound worthy of someone who was supposed to be a top class poet and wordsmith, but also what a wanker!

What did Eric Linklater have to say? A really weird choice for them to go to a guy who mostly wrote comic novels in the Wodehouse vein...