and LOL I just discovered that Spiked have blocked me on Twitter. Such snowflakes.
― "the fancy things" being his nads, etc (stevie), Saturday, 11 September 2021 09:20 (two years ago) link
i'm not saying Brendan isn't a 5 watt bulb, but he also knows what he's doing with stuff like the Osama piece, who he's playing to, and how he's shaping the long term background music
― cheesons to be rearful (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 11 September 2021 09:58 (two years ago) link
not sure how this one is playing (he has long ago blocked me) but surely this take is so ridiculous that even his usual fans will be going "nah"
― edited to reflect developments which occurred (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Saturday, 11 September 2021 10:02 (two years ago) link
One of the best things about the pandemic is that Brendan O'Neill has disappeared from our TV screens, the only Spiked person you regularly see these days is Ella Whelan but, to compensate, she is on everything.
― How does Spock's brain come into this? (Tom D.), Saturday, 11 September 2021 10:36 (two years ago) link
baldlisted by the UK establishment because they just can't handle the bald truth
― calzino, Saturday, 11 September 2021 10:47 (two years ago) link
just a neutral news aggregation service pic.twitter.com/SSLgXPLCBZ— ššš¤š«š¢š±š° š§² (@PerthshireMags) September 14, 2021
― xyzzzz__, Tuesday, 14 September 2021 20:30 (two years ago) link
I obviously love to hate her, but I gotta say, āreportingā news in this way (the teaser, the emojis) is gross pic.twitter.com/YAShb5eAV0— b (@redbethmond) October 23, 2021
― xyzzzz__, Saturday, 23 October 2021 20:04 (two years ago) link
they wouldn't dare use them crass emojis if it was a report on Alec Baldwin perhaps, but when it is soldiers killing civilians it's fine.
― calzino, Saturday, 23 October 2021 20:12 (two years ago) link
If I could get just ten per cent of the population to understand the actual effect of clock-fiddling, it would be a major triumph. I doubt one in a thousand grasps it. But this does not stop them having strong opinions such as āI like the long eveningsā. Crikey.— Peter Hitchens (@ClarkeMicah) October 29, 2021
probably one of his more harmless talking points, but it's more and more becoming impressive that he hasn't managed to bore himself to death in these recent years as he advances into premature senility.
― calzino, Saturday, 30 October 2021 02:01 (two years ago) link
A spat over a piece by an ex-ilxor, who is reviewing a book by another ex-ilxor.
This is exactly what I'm talking about.Here's a liberal commentator who likes to pontificate on the left's moral indecency, suggesting The Spectator soft soaping a fascist is somehow novel.What do you know! He's been repeatedly commissioned by them!https://t.co/IE4ASH4MUM pic.twitter.com/iMAKbyY959— Owen Jones š¹ (@OwenJones84) November 29, 2021
― xyzzzz__, Monday, 29 November 2021 14:11 (two years ago) link
"My problem with this reaction is they pay for my holidays"
― glumdalclitch, Monday, 29 November 2021 14:19 (two years ago) link
my problem is i think it's ok to take money off fascists
― huile about oeuf (Noodle Vague), Monday, 29 November 2021 17:33 (two years ago) link
It's only on the odd occasion, btw.
I know the intention is to be a sanctimonious prick but my very occasional book reviews have never stopped me from calling them out.— Dorian Lynskey (@Dorianlynskey) November 29, 2021
― xyzzzz__, Monday, 29 November 2021 17:35 (two years ago) link
Not to give their fash rags the veneer of moderation theyāre using you for though.
― mardheamac (gyac), Monday, 29 November 2021 17:35 (two years ago) link
The reason The Spectator commissions centrists is so it can go "yeah fine we publish white supremacism and neo nazi apologism but we also publish liberals so that's balance, checkmate critics!"As the magazine's editor himself puts it: pic.twitter.com/MMbILobuWz— Owen Jones š¹ (@OwenJones84) November 29, 2021
― mardheamac (gyac), Monday, 29 November 2021 17:37 (two years ago) link
OJ is running rings round both DL and Helen Lewis, you love to see it
― Critique of the Goth Programme (Neil S), Monday, 29 November 2021 17:51 (two years ago) link
DL "I may not have referred to The Spectator by name when I have criticised them countless times"
how do you do that?!
― calzino, Monday, 29 November 2021 17:58 (two years ago) link
he used the code phrase "Jeremy Corbyn"
― huile about oeuf (Noodle Vague), Monday, 29 November 2021 18:01 (two years ago) link
DL also published this today (posted on the JFK thread earlier) on the cow blog and you can see all the rooms in the racism factory by following this dickhead:
https://unherd.com/2021/11/oliver-stones-seductive-conspiracies/
― xyzzzz__, Monday, 29 November 2021 18:06 (two years ago) link
I know it's another "if Corbyn had won" but if he had I wonder whether the likes of unheard would exist or employ liberals to write for them when they'd need the stronger stuff.
― xyzzzz__, Monday, 29 November 2021 18:09 (two years ago) link
It doesn't take Poirot to work out why liberal journalists might not zealously monitor your output so that they can make sure you feel sufficiently supported in your pet causes. Not least because maybe they have their own pet causes, which you in turn don't get involved in.— Helen Lewis (@helenlewis) November 29, 2021
― Nu-panique schnizzle (wins), Monday, 29 November 2021 18:23 (two years ago) link
Also most of these people were conspicuously silent when OJ was physically attacked by racists, when those racists were caught, and when those racists were convicted, despite all of these things being top news stories at the time.
― the thin blue lying (suzy), Monday, 29 November 2021 18:39 (two years ago) link
lol
Dorian helpfully picking this moment to remind us that he writes regularly for TWO far right publications https://t.co/g7T9gYnM8K pic.twitter.com/0EoduuadwJ— PolProf Wariotifo (@wariotifo) November 29, 2021
― mardheamac (gyac), Monday, 29 November 2021 18:58 (two years ago) link
if i was so pitifully bad at taking it i would simply ensure that i never dished it out
― huile about oeuf (Noodle Vague), Monday, 29 November 2021 19:06 (two years ago) link
Lol
Interesting new publicity campaign from The Spectator pic.twitter.com/158Moiw6bI— Owen Jones š¹ (@OwenJones84) December 1, 2021
― xyzzzz__, Wednesday, 1 December 2021 11:33 (two years ago) link
DL has only just calmed down now, don't let him see this!
― calzino, Wednesday, 1 December 2021 11:37 (two years ago) link
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FFwt8kBXsAIreMo?format=jpg&name=large
Dickie Canine!
― calzino, Saturday, 4 December 2021 12:46 (two years ago) link
Gladstonian liberalism = the O.G. woke bullshit!
― calzino, Saturday, 4 December 2021 12:51 (two years ago) link
Is it April 1st?
― When Smeato Met Moaty (Tom D.), Saturday, 4 December 2021 13:06 (two years ago) link
By the way, Lyn$k3y's quite a regular in the library I work, I've never actually had any direct dealings with him myself but I've seen him around and, Jesus, what a miserable looking, joyless cunt. He used to mostly read rock biog stuff but I noticed the other day he had a whole lot of books on comets and asteroids and shit.
― When Smeato Met Moaty (Tom D.), Saturday, 4 December 2021 13:10 (two years ago) link
It'll be pictures of dinosaurs gazing haplessly at the arriving meteor next.
― When Smeato Met Moaty (Tom D.), Saturday, 4 December 2021 13:11 (two years ago) link
lol that's his next project
― calzino, Saturday, 4 December 2021 13:15 (two years ago) link
the dinosaurs gazing haplessly at the arriving brexit podcast was top stuff
― calzino, Saturday, 4 December 2021 13:17 (two years ago) link
dinosaurs meltosauruses
― calzino, Saturday, 4 December 2021 14:16 (two years ago) link
Errr, some of us do have resting bitch faces, you know. I've been drinking with DL a few times in a former life, and he was thoroughly affable and easy-going company.
― mike t-diva, Saturday, 4 December 2021 19:33 (two years ago) link
maybe working towards normalising fascism for two different bigoted far right-wing media outlets has taken it's toll on the poor dear.
― calzino, Saturday, 4 December 2021 19:44 (two years ago) link
Ok..
Someone I knew once went on a date with Sathnam and she was horrified when she returned because he spent the entire time talking via a puppet. https://t.co/8pxQZORInl— FrodoKolo (@FrodoKolo) December 5, 2021
― xyzzzz__, Sunday, 5 December 2021 23:04 (two years ago) link
Darren Grimes is set to join GB News in 2022 following the departure of Andrew Neil and Simon McCoy. He'll be hosting a weekend show called āReal Britain'. https://t.co/iLj4Gbn7g9— Metro (@MetroUK) December 14, 2021
― o shit the sheriff (NickB), Tuesday, 14 December 2021 13:49 (two years ago) link
A Tory peer has spent boxing Day going at a 21 yo Leninist. Mad to watch.
Hi Daniel. I think Leninism is invidious. A murderous idea. So I think it worth countering. Itās definitely worth my time.— Daniel Finkelstein (@Dannythefink) December 26, 2021
― xyzzzz__, Sunday, 26 December 2021 23:39 (two years ago) link
Day 3:
I donāt regard myself as anything of the sort, Daniel. As someone who suffered under the austerity you helped inflict, who saw peopleās lives destroyed & cut short, Iām simply committed to ensuring that can never happen again and for everyone to have a dignified life https://t.co/v8LkyRkdHr— Daniel (@DanielEales) December 27, 2021
― xyzzzz__, Monday, 27 December 2021 13:35 (two years ago) link
Incredible content from Aaro to round out the year, this.
By the way (and hereās a complication) why is Prince Andrew āprivilegedā over, say, me, when I envy nothing about his life or upbringing?— David Aaronovitch (@DAaronovitch) December 30, 2021
― mardheamac (gyac), Thursday, 30 December 2021 19:30 (two years ago) link
As a person paid to write for a living why would he understand what words mean?
― Khafre's clown (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 30 December 2021 20:13 (two years ago) link
it's tough at the top, eh? what a fuckwit. when he had a regular 10 minute opinion slot on R4 he said that women that talk about the inequities of western patriarchal society need to grow up because "they sound like students". Total fucking dickhead.
― calzino, Thursday, 30 December 2021 20:49 (two years ago) link
I see Giles Coren is at it again
― Number None, Tuesday, 18 January 2022 17:47 (two years ago) link
I am not surprised. Most people who report on politics in this country do not understand the subject, lacking the Marxist training which I had in my distant youth. They call Sir Keir āmoderateā because he is not Jeremy Corbyn. A fat lot they know.Jeremy Corbyn is, of course, a wild Leftist, a man of clenched-fist salutes, street protests and red banners who probably dreams of storming Buckingham Palace at the head of a detachment of Red Guards. But he is one of the obvious, old-fashioned sort, steam-powered, coal-fired. You can see him a mile off and defeat him with ease. Sir Keir is much more dangerous. His fanaticism is as smooth as the moisturiser he applies daily to his handsome face. It is designed for the age of the internet.
Jeremy Corbyn is, of course, a wild Leftist, a man of clenched-fist salutes, street protests and red banners who probably dreams of storming Buckingham Palace at the head of a detachment of Red Guards.
But he is one of the obvious, old-fashioned sort, steam-powered, coal-fired. You can see him a mile off and defeat him with ease. Sir Keir is much more dangerous. His fanaticism is as smooth as the moisturiser he applies daily to his handsome face. It is designed for the age of the internet.
P Hitchens in 2020 on Starmer. I don't why he's linked to it today other than he thinks it is a very prescient observation that has aged very well. At least he is funny like a clown.
― calzino, Sunday, 6 February 2022 09:06 (two years ago) link
That quote can't be real I must be hallucinating it.
― xyzzzz__, Sunday, 6 February 2022 09:28 (two years ago) link
"Corbyn was so easy to defeat" -- actually he has been far nearer having power than Starmer. He'd be shitting himself if Corbyn was still leader. The argument for re-nationalisation would be overwhelming.
The political class is very lucky that Corbyn had the EU problem to deal with.
― xyzzzz__, Sunday, 6 February 2022 09:32 (two years ago) link
also that he was only a thousand + votes away from forming a minority government in 2017 is something that seems to have completely bypassed the Hitch brane. But I think he's going senile tbh.
― calzino, Sunday, 6 February 2022 09:36 (two years ago) link
Really amused that Peter H thinks men applying moisturiser is some kind of tell in 2022.
― mardheamac (gyac), Sunday, 6 February 2022 10:07 (two years ago) link
well these handsome male politicians "in the age of the internet" (like Kieth lol) can't be having dry skin issues!
― calzino, Sunday, 6 February 2022 10:19 (two years ago) link