do you think this means that the Spectator will finally stop publishing his column? It's barely coherent these days anyway (not that it was ever good, but)
― soref, Thursday, 5 October 2023 22:43 (eight months ago) link
there's a whole new generation of self-styled crypto-nazi gadflies they can replace him with now, anyway
― soref, Thursday, 5 October 2023 22:47 (eight months ago) link
There is a crisis in British politics, please resurrect my career.
This is big story of Labour conference: the sell-out to dubious businesses. The lobbyists; fringe meeting sponsors paying to make speeches; cash for access. And sod the unions. If only I still had a mic, a great cameraman, & an outlet. Please do it someone in TV or radio. https://t.co/AyEM2OfX0W— Michael Crick (@MichaelLCrick) October 7, 2023
― xyzzzz__, Sunday, 8 October 2023 10:11 (seven months ago) link
this it what corporate ghoul politicians predictably do, the time to have been shocked or alarmed was when they were taking over the Labour Party.
― vodkaitamin effrtvescent (calzino), Sunday, 8 October 2023 10:15 (seven months ago) link
i'm still not really clear on when the Viz Top Tips fanboy decided he had important thoughts about politics tbh
― no gap tree for old men (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 8 October 2023 10:32 (seven months ago) link
for years now he has always been condescending at best and mostly dismissive towards people who post about how wretched and corrupt the Labour leadership and various frontbench MPs are. And now he wants to be given a paid platform to carry on being slow on the uptake and a clueless cunt!
― vodkaitamin effrtvescent (calzino), Sunday, 8 October 2023 11:41 (seven months ago) link
The shocking moment Douglas Murray's interview with Piers Morgan is interrupted by overhead fire at the Gaza border.Piers: "Are you ok?"Douglas: "It seemed to be coming from Gaza. Yeah it's fine, it's okay, it's been happening all day."@piersmorgan | @DouglasKMurray pic.twitter.com/rYoIk23rky— Piers Morgan Uncensored (@PiersUncensored) November 8, 2023
― xyzzzz__, Thursday, 9 November 2023 13:33 (six months ago) link
Why is Douglas Murray at the Israel-Gaza border? Other than the obvious reason of being as near as he can get to thousands of Muslims being killed?
― The First Time Ever I Saw Gervais (Tom D.), Thursday, 9 November 2023 13:43 (six months ago) link
Gaza, y’all only have to be lucky once.
― steely flan (suzy), Thursday, 9 November 2023 13:47 (six months ago) link
https://order-order.com/2023/11/24/andrew-pierce-under-investigation-over-sexual-groping-allegations/
― How old Cary Grant? (Tom D.), Saturday, 25 November 2023 00:33 (six months ago) link
Sarah Vine dines at the Garrick club
Son and dear ex, not having travelled quite so far, are already ensconced in green leather button-backs. As we cross the threshold in there’s an alarming shout: ‘It’s that Sarah Vine!’ I turn to see Kwasi Kwarteng, sitting with his lovely wife Harriet and a third party who turns out to be their vicar, positively overflowing with festive cheer. That’s the joy of somewhere like the Garrick: you never know who you’re going to bump into. On that occasion, not just the former chancellor and his spirited spiritual guide but also, and in no particular order, Sting (yes, Sting), the heavenly Lord Howard of Rising, and the ‘baby doctor’ himself, Lord [Robert] Winston.
― soref, Wednesday, 10 January 2024 22:09 (four months ago) link
you go girl etc.
https://x.com/BethRigby/status/1755148799368904986?s=20
― Critique of the Goth Programme (Neil S), Wednesday, 7 February 2024 09:59 (three months ago) link
oh my god
― vodkaitamin effrtvescent (calzino), Wednesday, 7 February 2024 10:04 (three months ago) link
Baroness Davidson of Lundin Links, I'd hoped we'd seen the last of her.
― The British Boy of Film Classification (Tom D.), Wednesday, 7 February 2024 10:05 (three months ago) link
I could never work out wtf Rigby's accent is supposed to be. There was some bs in The Mail about the "speech snoberry" of ppl taking the piss out of her accent. She grew up in Buckinghamshire and attended a posh girls' grammar school - so perhaps snoberry is way off the mark.
― vodkaitamin effrtvescent (calzino), Wednesday, 7 February 2024 10:16 (three months ago) link
lots of agreeing to agree going on here
― Critique of the Goth Programme (Neil S), Wednesday, 7 February 2024 10:20 (three months ago) link
It's because she leaves the g off words ending in -ing, like Priti Patel. It is very noticeable, perhaps because she otherwise doesn't have an especially strong accent.
― The British Boy of Film Classification (Tom D.), Wednesday, 7 February 2024 10:41 (three months ago) link
Cannot think of another human, living or dead, who I despise more than Matthew Parris.
Jesus Christ Matthew Parris pic.twitter.com/OhsRVuH2Ts— Scott Bryan (@scottygb) March 9, 2024
― This is Dance Anthems, have some respect (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Sunday, 10 March 2024 13:24 (two months ago) link
glad to hear from noted psychologist Matthew Parris
― Colonel Poo, Sunday, 10 March 2024 13:33 (two months ago) link
He's always been scum.
― man in suit and red tie raising his fist (Tom D.), Sunday, 10 March 2024 13:44 (two months ago) link
he has always been scum
the article is bullshit of course even on his own terms but journalism means never having to understand what you're writing about
― Morris O’Shea Salazar (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 10 March 2024 14:02 (two months ago) link
Cunt.
― I would prefer not to. (Chinaski), Sunday, 10 March 2024 16:36 (two months ago) link
there are ppl out there that buy into this taxpayers alliance style propaganda that disability and sickness benefits could do with dragging back to pre-welfare state levels of spending and let 'em die. I got banned from another site for laying into a bigoted moron for posting vile shit like MP. The coward deleted his post (and my reply ripping it to pieces) and then used his mod privileges to ban me, lol.
― vodkaitamin effrtvescent (calzino), Sunday, 10 March 2024 17:37 (two months ago) link
Burning all my Holly Valance records.
― Chewshabadoo, Saturday, 16 March 2024 08:22 (two months ago) link
Valance, 40, told GB News she voted Conservative in the 2019 General Election but is now in favour of Richard Tice's party which recently welcomed MP Lee Anderson after he defected from the Tories."I support anybody that sort of sticks to what they believe in and isn't a turncoat," she said.
"I support anybody that sort of sticks to what they believe in and isn't a turncoat," she said.
... errrrrrrrrr.
― man in suit and red tie raising his fist (Tom D.), Saturday, 16 March 2024 08:37 (two months ago) link
Racist member of the Serb diaspora, consider me shocked
― Roman Anthony gets on his horse (gyac), Saturday, 16 March 2024 08:43 (two months ago) link
Just a friendly sieg heil each morning,Helps to make a better day.
― vodkaitamin effrtvescent (calzino), Saturday, 16 March 2024 09:12 (two months ago) link
isn't she Australian?
― This is Dance Anthems, have some respect (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Saturday, 16 March 2024 09:17 (two months ago) link
Serbian and Australian not a great combination tbh.
― man in suit and red tie raising his fist (Tom D.), Saturday, 16 March 2024 09:22 (two months ago) link
xp as I said, diaspora. Chetniks march in the ANZAC parade and their flags have shown up at tennis matches. Let’s just say they’re not too worried about the association.
― Roman Anthony gets on his horse (gyac), Saturday, 16 March 2024 09:31 (two months ago) link
I know, just saying that when a white immigrant to the UK starts coming out with anti-immigrant rhetoric then yeah it is really very obvious as regards racist (barely) subtext. notable also that her only big hit was a cover version of a Turkish hit.
― This is Dance Anthems, have some respect (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Saturday, 16 March 2024 11:23 (two months ago) link
https://www.ft.com/content/2bd751aa-e2bf-4ab6-a3d5-38fb5b571833
It is hard to establish cause and effect. Wars are so frequent that one can always be tied to a chronologically adjacent invention. Still, the west’s Long Peace more or less maps on to the stagnation that Cowen and others describe. And it is possible to theorise how war might serve as a stimulant. First, the trauma forces the imagination into new and strange places. Second, the resulting ideas are easier to sell because the ruling ideas are so tainted with blood. Third, the violence itself often gives rise to some kind of technical innovation.
In The Third Man, Orson Welles’s character observes that, while the warring states of the Italian peninsula gave us the Renaissance, serene Switzerland produced the “cuckoo clock”. (Harsh on Rousseau and Le Corbusier, that.) The film came out in 1949. A human lifetime later, he could be describing the entire western world. I am writing this on a MacBook that is much the same as the laptop I first owned a generation ago. People watch episodic TV shows, as they did in 1990, even if they do so on-demand. We who dine out most nights wait, in vain, for a new direction in the restaurant world. I now see all this sameness as the (dirt cheap) price of prolonged peace. I have no certainty that a war would be a creative stimulus, just a nauseous feeling that we are due to find out. "our sObviously reactionary nutters have been writing "our society needs a war" ever since 1945, but it feels like there is a coordiation of drum-banging recently with all the conscription stuff. It's pretty chilling how desperately some people want to see Britain nuked in our lifetimes. The above is obviously risible clickbait but I think it does lay bare some of the hidden arguments behind the acceptable liberal ones.
― glumdalclitch, Monday, 8 April 2024 14:05 (one month ago) link
Who wrote that?
― Hunky Tory (Tom D.), Monday, 8 April 2024 14:06 (one month ago) link
Janan Ganesh, sorry here's an archive link
https://archive.ph/XyWWZ
― glumdalclitch, Monday, 8 April 2024 14:09 (one month ago) link
dying at 'in vain'
― plax (ico), Monday, 8 April 2024 14:11 (one month ago) link
That Janan is breathing ought to be enough reason to bring back the guillotine.
― xyzzzz__, Monday, 8 April 2024 15:11 (one month ago) link
the national service act can conscript those aged between 18-41, Janan is 42!
― vodkaitamin effrtvescent (calzino), Monday, 8 April 2024 15:19 (one month ago) link
i was gonna say "the new fash are deeply into cosplay militarism" but of course we can take out the "new" from that. it's a central pillar of fascism full stop. if it looks a little more ridiculous now than it did in the 1920s maybe that's just because people can see thru their shit a little more clearly
― Bitchin Doutai (Noodle Vague), Monday, 8 April 2024 15:22 (one month ago) link
What the fuck are pro-conscriptionists even imagining? Land battles in eastern Europe? What year is this?
It's like the end of Vile Bodies when were back in the world 1914 in exactly the same conditions, just 15 years later.
― glumdalclitch, Monday, 8 April 2024 15:37 (one month ago) link
*world of 1914
Ugh. Fucking chickenhawk.
― steely flan (suzy), Monday, 8 April 2024 16:14 (one month ago) link
the third man line was bullshit that welles made up during filming. i wonder how many people have died due to that scene and the idiot warmongers who think it's fact.
― formerly abanana (dat), Tuesday, 9 April 2024 10:56 (one month ago) link
The parenthetical right after basically acknowledges it’s bullshit! Not to mention that most normal people would agree that lime is not the hero of that film
― subpost master (wins), Tuesday, 9 April 2024 11:07 (one month ago) link
Would you really feel any pity if a few million of those dots stop moving — forever?
― vodkaitamin effrtvescent (calzino), Tuesday, 9 April 2024 11:31 (one month ago) link
Yes, it's a glib self-serving line by a glib self-serving character in movie. Also have we all forgotten the Affair of the Sausages?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Affair_of_the_Sausages
― Hunky Tory (Tom D.), Tuesday, 9 April 2024 11:39 (one month ago) link
i wonder how many people have died due to that scene and the idiot warmongers who think it's fact.
I think it's 0 fwiw
― Daniel_Rf, Tuesday, 9 April 2024 12:37 (one month ago) link
what about this one
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XjpkoPEn0cI
― difficult listening hour, Tuesday, 9 April 2024 14:39 (one month ago) link
A pile of free copies of The Critic has started to appear every month in the reception area of my work. Usual names on the usual themes. Woke agenda in universities/BBC/civil service. What is wrong with being elitist? Diary pieces that begin "To the theatre..." Cartoons of men on desert islands. Is there a bottomless well of this stuff? Like someone saw a gap in the market between The Oldie and The Spectator, to fill with more mid-brow right-wing STUFF, printed on paper with a nice cover. Who buys it? Who funds it?
― fetter, Wednesday, 10 April 2024 13:14 (one month ago) link
Who buys it? maybe those who think of Private Eye as too woke thesedays...
― Mark G, Wednesday, 10 April 2024 15:57 (one month ago) link
lmao at "Cartoons of men on desert islands."
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Wednesday, 10 April 2024 16:01 (one month ago) link