British Right-Wing Pundits

They do, but undoubtedly some ancestries are prized above others.

Yes, it is generally more a) spurious and b) profoundly-felt re Irishness.

In later life my dad went full shamrockbegorrahjaysus although his ancestors were CoI/Methodist on his dad’s side and fully Huguenot on his mum’s.

huguenot very slept on in these discussions

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Huguenots

I always thought Brando was a huge knot

Annoyed that my ancestor who was in charge of British prisoners during the Revolutionary War and my other more direct ancestor who was with Washington at Trenton (and devised burning the landed British barges) aren’t on that list, pffft.

none of my ancestors are apparently from anywhere more exotic than County Cork, however there is this guy who seems pretty interesting

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lancelot_Errington

the view in the US seems to be that the irish gene is dominant

A little unsure where the break would be presumed to be between irish diaspora of catholic origins and those of the other sects tbh

yes i concur.

although it is funny to think about the scots-irish peple whose ancestors were peep o day boys turning over in their graves when they donated to NORAID

Ive eaten at the restaurant beside the huguenot graveyard here in town and tbh i dont see what the fuss is about the soup

My Irishes emigrated to Ontario before every single male child of theirs went to America armed with a medical degree, to serve in various backwaters with hospitals.

A little unsure where the break would be presumed to be between irish diaspora of catholic origins and those of the other sects tbh

tbf a lot of them were rebels who hated the English, so not all bad

Im actually lost bit lookit

Funny how they're far less likely "Hey, I'm German!" even though there's more with German ancestry than Irish.

― Waterloo Subset (Tom D.), Wednesday, January 20, 2021 2:49 AM (eight hours ago)

gabbneb???

Remember when Patrick Maguire used to write for the bad NS? Awful awful content

The just slightly too enthusiastic Biden joy amongst the blue ticks is the dawning realisation that they have collectively fucked it into the heart of the sun, IMO pic.twitter.com/a03sNQDUxG

— Flying_Rodent (@flying_rodent) January 21, 2021

TERFs are confused

I am SO happy that Biden won and Trump lost. But this is terrible https://t.co/meJ2OskCtv

— Hadley Freeman (@HadleyFreeman) January 21, 2021

Thoroughly normal people.

O THANK YOU, Uncle Joe, for taking away women's sex-based rights, which those before us fought so hard to win! Would you like to wipe your bum on we giggling gals of your fan-club next? It's OUR PLEASURE!

— Julie Burchill (@BoozeAndFagz) January 21, 2021

Julie Burchill fought for women's sex-based rights? When?

fishhook theory confirmed again

No, no, it was those before her! Are you accusing her of egotism?

Poor Julie, between this and Joe being a proud Fenian, it must have been such a hard day for her

Those before her did the fighting - Charles Shaar Murray, Nick Kent.

Getting sonned by a bookshop, you love too etc

Hi yes, we are an American bookshop in London. Owned by an American. She is the sole-proprietor. Pays taxes in America and Britain. Thank you. https://t.co/NmUzZkpwSR

— The Second Shelf in Second Lockdown or Third or? (@secondshelfbks) January 21, 2021

I do have to wonder how someone so thick with no discernable writing talent has managed to have such a successful career in journalism

It's almost as if it's who you know not whether you're any good or not

"all the worst parts of the Equality Act"

Jobs for life.

inherited wealth

second shelf is an excellent little bookshop, well worth a visit if you’re in soho, fantastic range of women’s and gender diverse writing.

yes i saw that. hadley freeman also covering herself in glory lashing out at the excellent women’s and gender diverse bookshop the second shelf is good timing as well. not sure how much of a choice you get but ew, do not want to read anything by hadley freeman even if it’s about My Favoruite LRB HERO Patricia Lockwood She Can Do No Wrong. (i haven’t read priest daddy and have no particular urge to - should i?)

RONG thread

no it’s not

A happy(?) accident.

patricia lockwood's books/poetry are not as good as you might hope. i think there's something ultimately ephemeral about her writing that doesn't work in those forms. i have one of her collections of poetry and i enjoyed it at first but its much more conservative in outlook than i would have hoped and i felt very underwhelmed by it.

there was a poem that was very 'honoring our troops' that made me do a face

plax you're not the first person to have said that, and despite my general enjoyment of Lockwood in the LRB as a good counterweight, i'm not feeling a huge urge to go into the wider works.

oh that's interesting, i hadn't actually encountered that said about her. disappointingly nobody i've seen writing about her has really done her the courtesy of engaging with her writing beyond 'poet laureate of twitter' laziness. i do enjoy her as a 'breath of fresh air' lol

just in case of any doubt that wasn't a 'plax why are you repeating that old saw about her being not as good as you might hope,' just that i've heard from other people something similar, and my response was 'ah right, yes, another person i trust basically saying this' (I haven't seen it much out in the wild as an opinion tbh).

pouring one out for Darren "Grimesy" Grimes who is leaving London to go back to his mum's house, RIP big man

On 13 December 2020 I made defamatory statements about @AyoCaesar, which I sincerely regret and retract and have undertaken not to repeat. I have agreed to pay substantial damages to Ash Sarkar and her legal costs. Here is my full and wholehearted apology. Please retweet pic.twitter.com/tc2aUKbCOK

— Julie Burchill (@BoozeAndFagz) March 16, 2021

u loves to see it

Lol was just coming here for this

will this affect her glittering Fleet Street career? The signs are... it won't.

would be funny if she could be made to retract all the other terrible things she's written in the same style, I do note that her anti-woke book is due to be published again though.

the most normal paper on normal island

At the time, when Julie Burchill was sending me abusive and defamatory tweets, I tried to contact her editor Allister Heath at the Sunday Telegraph both on Twitter and via email.

He never replied.

— Ash Sarkar (@AyoCaesar) March 16, 2021

God, Allister Heath, that guy is a horror.

weird how these things just keep happening to Julie through no fault of her own

Amazing 48hrs for Julie Burchill. pic.twitter.com/i26rHCiEmy

— The Trashies (@TheTrashiesUK) March 17, 2021