British Right-Wing Pundits

i have no wish to know whether he does that

he seasons his face with a teaspoon of smoked paprika

hence his somewhat goulash appearance

lol

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.

It has bypassed many brains to be fair.

the Marxist training which I had in my distant youth

this is interesting (mildly) (very mildly) (to me alone)): back in the day i seem to recall PH denied he'd ever been a member of whichever marxist groupuscule it was

(it was the IS = the international socialism group, which became the swp and which his brother was also in, and i see that wikipedia now includes PH's membership as a fact, so either i'm misremembering the disavowment lol or he was feebly fibbing back then)

he's forgetting that he was on the trot wing. But some of the claims he makes about the where on the political spectrum of Blair/Starmer/Cameron suggests to me he has some form of dementia. And I don't mean it facetiously.

I didn't know he'd denied his Marxist heritage but his broken binaries very much indicate that you can't take the boy out of etc

Also anybody wanna buy a copy of Socialist Worker?

I think I've internalised that he's slightly different in some mysterious way to other right-wing conservative commentators, probably cos he often criticises NATO and takes alternative positions on post Soviet Russia. But he's still basically a very horrible idiot and often completely clueless!

it was the IS = the international socialism group, which became the swp and which his brother was also in

... as was Garry Bushell.

indeed

(tho i don't think he's ever denied it)

doing Sun columns and nazi-monikered oi compilations keeps one honest, guv.

'Marxist training' is such a weird way of putting it - they like quoting someone attached to some form of BLM saying that.

I must say that one of the last things I expected to see at a Scottish cup tie between Peterhead and Dundee was a banner reading 'Peter Hitchens Dark Blues'. pic.twitter.com/2ZFolrgJKY

— Ruairidh MacLennan (@RuaMacLennan) February 14, 2022

Yes. Yes!

lool!

obviously a dunderhead fan

Weird.

the great man is himself baffled by this

as by everything else

he's the waluigi chiles

he can't work out if they are mocking him or perhaps they've got strong opinions on the wretched imposition of British Summertime in Dundee.

Not a pundit but a hilarious error.

One more for the ‘journalists really ought to study history’ file… pic.twitter.com/MWakgAdikd

— Caroline Dodds Pennock (@carolinepennock) March 7, 2022

Thick as shit..

Yes, I don’t think rent controls work. You’ll find tens of other tweets I’ve written saying the same thing

— Charlotte Gill (@CharlotteCGill) March 15, 2022

New mag just dropped.

The only thread uniting these writers is anti-systems politics (or, to put it another way, anti-liberalism). Not sure that's enough for a magazine. https://t.co/LASdPFi6zA

— Jeet Heer (@HeerJeet) March 22, 2022

Can’t wait for the takes on this one, lads

"It's impossible to imagine such a thing in our country"

President Vladimir Putin uses J K Rowling as an example of Western cynicism and "cancel culture", which he says is currently being aimed at Russia.

Latest on Ukraine: https://t.co/XTFXr6HmAe

📺 Sky 501 and YouTube pic.twitter.com/TyH9lddC5k

— Sky News (@SkyNews) March 25, 2022

"they hate us for our freedoms to terf"

“He may be an unpalatable demagogue, but at least Uncle Vova knows what a woman is!”

Lots of death and destruction but the idea that Putin is sitting in a bunker reading "The Prisoner of Azkaban" all the while nodding his head and muttering, "Another banger. She just doesn't miss" won't leave me alone

— William Paris (@WilliamMParis) March 25, 2022

When did Matthew Le Tissier start drinking the Kool-Aid?

He's been an utter prick for at least a decade.

I knew that but he seems to have pivoted to full Icke recently.

Blame the pandemic. Or Ralph Hasenhüttl.

Hahaha oh my fucking god pic.twitter.com/NBrzls4I8O

— Tom Williams (@shirleymush) April 3, 2022

in an increasingly troubled, confusing, violent world maybe it takes a man like Matt Le Tissier to really make sense of it all

One nation under a mood.

Fairly graceless from Ed Sheeran to win his case and still moan like he's lost... Just a nation of whiners these days.

— Harry Cole (@MrHarryCole) April 6, 2022

News!! I’m going to be a panellist on The News Desk with Tom Newton Dunn on Talk TV - News UK’s new TV channel.

I’ll be on every Thursday from next week with Adam Boulton and Bim Afolami - with whom I am sure I will have some spirited debates…

You can watch online or on TV.

— Grace Blakeley (@graceblakeley) April 13, 2022

can we get a mod to take out the unnecessary "Right-Wing" qualifier in the title?

The Matt Le Tissier interview in The Times is, on the whole, maddening. But the way he describes himself as a non-conformist by *checks notes* talking about the fact he drinks Malibu and coke instead of lager is genuinely hilarious. pic.twitter.com/uIj4fybPHE

— Felix Keith (@felixkeith) April 29, 2022

Wow pic.twitter.com/c9JA228uhA

— Simon A (@sdlezark) May 4, 2022

so many fucking piers and andrew marr shit on buses in London right now, feel like I'm in a Warren Ellis comic

Andrew Marr, now UNSILENCED after all those years of being a silenced senior political correspondent and talkshow host

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FR6-jVsXEAEp8Z-?format=jpg&name=900x900

lol, Grace Blakeley's "strategic decision" to get on the Murdoch payroll to get a left-wing perspective out there is going very well.

I will have a quick scan of this piece later but Aaron made a judgement to welcome him etc.

That map of the ‘pro Putin infosphere’ including Zara Sultana, Diane Abbott, Jess Barnard, Jeremy Corbyn, Tribune and Novara Media, created by ⁦@paulmasonnews⁩, is allegedly real. A wealth of emails/documents are included in this extraordinary piece. https://t.co/HPFvYYr9M9

— Aaron Bastani (@AaronBastani) June 8, 2022

oh I didn't realise the recipient of the Mason emails was a shady MI6 adjacent character. And I never realised Novara Media and Tribune were part of the pro-Putin Gallowayite-Williamsonite Terrorist Centre!

"this is allegedly real" is a hard sentence to translate lol

God this is just awful.

Final word on this for now. I know this might seem funny for some, but this is deeply scary behaviour that should never be allowed near politics. How on earth can working class people be political if journos are permitted to libel us and set intelligence agencies on us?

— Jess Barnard (@JessicaLBarnard) June 8, 2022

anyone whoever participated with any "stoya come to athens" bantz or lampooned his "kieth advance the class struggle" post is now part of the “pro-Putin Info Sphere”

Paul Mason is unwell.

Right, you're on the list.

just to cool everyone's jets a teeny wee bit, the grayzone piece is co-authored by max blumenthal, who's been an oz katerji-level prick for years (and a vax sceptic)

(also son of clinton-adviser sidney blumenthal, who some will remember from the monica lewinsky hoohah lol)

My point stands