British Right-Wing Pundits

Madeleine Grant is the daughter of Sally Jones, and mum’s a Tory too.

You probably won't be able to read this but it's a Telegraph writer waxing nostalgic about growing up during the Troubles and having lots of friendly British soldiers patrolling the streets. Great bunch o' lads, so they were.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/columnists/2022/12/09/growing-troubles-quite-looking-forward-seeing-soldiers-streets/

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2022/dec/18/jeremy-clarkson-condemned-meghan-column-the-sun

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FmQsnmtXkAADMDT?format=jpg&name=small

imagine watching Mark Dolan present Balls of Steel in 2005 and someone telling you that it would actually be the least worst thing he was ever involved in

A Celebration of Dissent hosted by Marc Bolan.

the god-given right of any Englishman to drive their Mini directly into a tree

I'm too sexy for my steering

He wasn't driving, in a situation which acts as a kind of metaphor fro the plight of Prince Harry, he was being driven by an American woman of dubious ethnicity.

Never quite sure if Sir Christopher Chope is real or a Twitter pretend thing

Right Said Fred still on the anti-vaxx thing I'm assuming? Those types get sadder every day, everyone else has moved on...

its becoming clear that Andrew Bridgen is making moves for that post MP career as a GB News presenter.

Climate change seems to be the next big battleground.

Whatever else happens, half of this treehouse meeting will be spent chastising Harry and Meghan for dissenting.

When chatting ignorant and dangerous shit gets you the most attention you've had in years it must be very hard for some people to give it up

just a shame that Brendon O'Neill and his massive forehead were unavailable

The forehead is always available.

got some front on him that guy

right said forehead

Kind of mildly fascinated by Andrew Lawrence, who started out as a pretty good* character comic on Radio 4, then had a few meltdowns on social media and decided he wasn't getting gigs on TV because feminism - the real reason seems to be that the freaky furious weasely "character" was in fact his genuine personality. Since then he has made a complete fool of himself on Twitter, saying appalling things, having gigs cancelled, inevitably making this part of his act and finally finding a home with the Andrew Doyle crowd. He does these videos in character as a thug in which you are supposed to agree with him, Jonathan Pie style, but the thug "character" is played with open contempt for the kind of people he's portraying. He seems to be counting on his target audience to not twig this.

*may not be pretty good, I listened to the series once, 13 years ago.

The lesson is, cancel comedy

Right Said Fred still on the anti-vaxx thing I'm assuming? Those types get sadder every day, everyone else has moved on...

― Daniel_Rf, Thursday, January 12, 2023 11:36 AM (three hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

they are now on traffic reduction schemes... which is even more WTF?

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/bike-blog/2023/jan/10/why-do-traffic-reduction-schemes-attract-so-many-conspiracy-theories

A march against the traffic filters plan took place on Sunday in Oxford under the banner of Not Our Future, a new group led by 80s pop duo turned anti-vaxxers Right Said Fred

A woman in my work, who seems prone to conspiracy theories, was going on about this thing in Oxford too. It's all about how "they" are now using the false climate emergency to control us.

Piers Corbyn is involved. Inevitably.

it's the latest thing for right-wing psychos to get involved in apparently, as the article mentions Oxford councillors have been getting death threats as a rsult of the conspiracy theories about the traffic reduction scheme there. Where I live in Haringey it seems to be the sole issue that Conservative councillors campaign on- the right to drive your car wherever you damn well like, regardless of the consequences.

of course it should be said that local government may not always proceed by de jure conspiracy but i've little sympathy for local councillors protesting that any benefits that accrue to them thru their jobs are purely accidental and unwelcome

and the tone of some of that Graun article deliberately plays to the evasive distinction

A snapshot of the current obsessions of Daily Telegraph columnists.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture-wars/

... and that's just this month's batch.

Probably behind a paywall but the headline should suffice.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/03/09/scotland-has-become-deeply-sinister-country/

what with the wulvers and the loch ness monster

become?

Article written by useless Blairite Scottish Labour cunt cum British Right-Wing Pundit Tom Harris who is still boohoing about losing his seat to the SNP.

(xp) LOL, true tho.

cunt cum

striking imagery, etc

The expression ‘turbo cancer’ has entered common parlance since the rollout of the vaccine, so whilst its poss that cancers r not ‘caused’ by the vaccine they maybe exacerbated by it.

The expression ‘turbo cancer’ has entered common parlance since the rollout of the vaccine, so whilst its poss that cancers r not ‘caused’ by the vaccine they maybe exacerbated by it. @thatsnotmine125 @TheFreds https://t.co/UdCJnVHAtq

— Richard Fairbrass (@RealFairbrass) March 20, 2023

The expression "wasteman" has entered common parlance in the last 20 years so it's possible that there are men who are literally made of waste

I really am surprised as how disappointed I've been with right said fred of all people over the last 7 years

Don't Talk Just Kiss

Refreshing that nearly all of the replies to that tweet are rightly ridiculing him

I've come to the conclusion that Allister Heath and Ross Clark are the two most batshit columnists at the Daily Telegraph - amongst fierce competition it must be saud. This little pearl is from the latter's column on how "Suella Braverman could be the most successful home secretary in recent history":

... deep within the attacks on her and the Government’s Illegal Migration Bill lies the assumption that Rwandans are incapable of providing a safe, civilised environment in which to process asylum applications and a home where genuine refugees can rebuild their lives. True, Rwanda experienced a genocide within living memory...

turbo wasteman

Almost as if there's a metric for saying the louder you like the more effective the outcome

xp v steve coogan municipal swimming pool security vibes there

I found the guy that sketch was based on recently, he was one of the bird curators at London Zoo in Molly Dineen's The Ark documentary. Had to be based on him, there's no way he couldn't have been. Anyway yeah

I'm always a bit intrigued at some of the absurd names of journalists on the Telegraph-Spectator spectrum. I mean, Sophia Money-Coutts - it's like a parody name that even Private Eye would consider too obvious. And then I ventured across a piece on 'woke' in the Spectator by a journalist named Panda La Terriere. Panda La Terriere, for God's sake! I googled her, she's apparently the great-granddaughter of Evelyn Waugh, so keeping the right-wing bigotry all in the family I guess. And no surprise, Money-Coutts is indeed a member of the Coutts banking dynasty.

Sunday Times culture section in a mess.

pic.twitter.com/jaRYqNPJv1

— Judy Blume (@judyblume) April 16, 2023

In a Spectator interview published today, historian David Starkey offers a novel take on the "do you have any black friends?" question 🥴 pic.twitter.com/XWsfPsrQXg

— Sunny Hundal (@sunny_hundal) May 5, 2023

"not openly racist to uber drivers" is the best defense he can muster, yes this sounds about right.

Spectator journalist Taki Theodoracopulos to face trial for alleged attempted rape in 2009 https://t.co/K1i9EzipYM

— The Guardian (@guardian) May 10, 2023

good