Put your skinny latte down, and choose your favourite right-wing British newspaper columnist

littlejohn = the voice of arrationality
platell = embodiment of brit centralised mediathink "nothing in britain even exists if it's outside london, nothing in london matters if it's outside whitehall"

i hate jon gaunt with a purity that is breath-taking

Actually, Hastings' book on the Korean war was very good, so I'm voting for him.

Is Suzanne Moore right wing now? I haven't read anything by her since she wrote for Marxism Today c.1988 :/

I thought everyone who wrote for Marxism Today was a right-winger?

Hastings does at least have a aire of age, experience and academic rigour about him. I prefer reading him to anyone else.

Not heard Gaunt. The last time I knew about Suzanne Moore was 10 years ago when she was writing shit for the Graun - lol class will out. I probably "enjoy" Hitchens' mentalism the most of these. Forsythe is always kinda fun too.

No Carole Malone?

Hastings I like less as a historian than Paul Johnson, who should've been on here if he's still alive.

Alive but insane

Comes with the territory.

Suzanne Moore isn't right wing though; she's the Mail's Token Leftie "See We're Openminded Really" columnist.

Additionally, where is Nick Cohen band?

Dude if you take the King's shilling then you're in the Army.

Also missing: Michael Gove and David "It's OK To Bomb Museums In Iraq So That Our Children Can Sleep Overnight In Our Museums EWWWWWWWW" Aaronovitch.

L*uis J*gger (Cambridge) wrote
at 11:45am
saw some quality gaunt the other day. he had his say on the goth couple who weren't let on the bus for the girl wearing a dog lead. something along the lines of "in today's society they may have the right to do what they want, to offend human decency in this way. but should they also have the right to live unemployed in council houses and plan to raise a family?" asking all the right questions IMO

Additionally, where is Nick Cohen band?

-- Dingbod Kesterson, Tuesday, 29 January 2008 10:42 (1 hour ago) Bookmark Link

The Eustonists really don't fit in with this list, feel free to start a poll for them.

even talksport trails and other talksport presenters take the piss out of jon gaunt. but they still employ him so screwfix Direct and vauxhall vans must like him.

Michael Gove, the original called out cockfarmer, is a shocking oversight. Aaronivitch and Cohen don't really fit. I went with BoJo, at least he can be funny.

Oh shit I suddenly realised I have voted for Boris Johnson in something.

Also no Kelvin Mackenzie!

Anyone remember that C4 current affairs/comedy programme in the early nineties with David Baddiel, Tracey McLeod and M Gove which was supposed to be the nineties' answer to TW3? I can't remember what it was called but it was terrible.

Poor Tracey!

I've just realised, one the genuinely certified mixed nuts has been missed out, Simon Heffalump.

And he is about as hateful as it gets.

Actually yeah leaving out Simon Heffer is like voting for your favourite Nazis without mentioning Hitler.

Heffer is politically on the right, being very critical of the European Union and New Labour, whilst being supportive of the 2003 invasion of Iraq. Heffer opposes almost all government intervention in the Economy and is against any national minimum wage. He also supports the death penalty. Culturally, however, he is of the Americosceptic Old Right rather than the pro-American Neoconservative/New Right, as can be seen through his criticism of the "hideous pop music" liked by David Cameron.[3] He has also written with pungency about the decline of tie-wearing among British men. Perhaps surprisingly, in the mid-1990s he was generally supportive of New Labour, due to his dissatisfaction with John Major and the Conservative Party at the time. Recently Heffer has written sympathetically of United Kingdom Independence Party (UKIP) and Nigel Farage.[4] However, he has also described himself as a Glastonian liberal.

Heffer believes that Christianity should have a strong role in shaping both the moral foundation of society and public policy, although he is an atheist.[5]

When the Home Office put Heffer on its Law and Order Task Force, left-wing politicians were concerned about the direction that criminal law reform might take, with human rights lawyer Baroness Kennedy saying that the government "had not just lost the plot but was handing the plotting over to their most feared critics."[6]

In 2004, Heffer wrote the unsigned editorial in The Spectator critical of Liverpudlian "vicarious victimhood", for which Boris Johnson was forced to apologize to the city.

In 2006, Heffer sharply criticised the film The Wind That Shakes The Barley, a movie by director Ken Loach about the Irish War of Independence [4] despite not having watched it.

In 2008, Heffer called for the United Nations to be strengthened, stating that: "If the UN ceases to be regarded by the larger powers as a institution to secure the peace of the world and justice therein, then that holds out all sorts of potential dangers."[7]

Quotes
"Portugal has revealed itself to be little more than a banana republic through the handling of this case. Whether you have small children or not, you would be mad even to think of having a holiday there." [8], Simon Heffer writing in the The Daily Telegraph about the Case McCann, January 2008.
"The evil that drug dealers do cannot be adequately punished under our present law; I would take a leaf out of China's book, and have them taken out and shot in the back of the head. That isn't going to happen. But using the laws we do have more effectively, applying them with zero tolerance, and making junkies pay - literally - for the damage they do to society would be a start. I fear, though, that it is already too late.", Simon Heffer writing in the The Daily Telegraph about Drug policy, January 2008.

Piece of work

Jimmy Young has a column does he?

"Ar-HAR Hanging. Is. Too. Good for them you see. Children of today need a short sharp shock, speaking of which here is Ray Davies and his Button Down Brass Raymondo."

Didn't he have something esp. sensitive and insightful to say about the Ipswich prostitute murders? (xp)

Here 'tis:

"... if drugs use is made more difficult, there will be fewer pushers. If there are fewer pushers then life will become harder for those further up the food chain.... there would still be tarts, and there would still be people who kill tarts. There would probably, though, be gratifyingly fewer of both."

what value of 'favourite' are we on here?

Didn't he have something esp. sensitive and insightful to say about the Ipswich prostitute murders? (xp)

-- Tom D., Tuesday, 29 January 2008 13:35 (15 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

Littlejohn on those murders was clearly a work of journalistic brilliance, up there with "J'Accuse" and "How It Feels To Be Forcibly Fed".

Prostitution seems to esp. rile middle-aged male right-wing hacks - I wonder why that would be?

"Here lies a prostitute. Not someone who worked as a prostitute. A prostitute. Signed, Richard Littlejohn. A cunt. Not someone who works as a cunt. A cunt."

i vote for peter hitchens because he has goggly eyes and never seems to blink, ergo he is a giant goldfish

went with BoJo, at least he can be funny.

that said, all of these people are right, right about everything. and they stand up to bullies.

Heffer believes that Christianity should have a strong role in shaping both the moral foundation of society and public policy, although he is an atheist.[5]

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i know!

Anyone remember that C4 current affairs/comedy programme in the early nineties with David Baddiel, Tracey McLeod and M Gove which was supposed to be the nineties' answer to TW3? I can't remember what it was called but it was terrible.

-- Dingbod Kesterson, Tuesday, 29 January 2008 13:26 (54 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

A Shot In The Dark, Lee and Herring's first TV scriptwriting gig.

a shout in the mouth amirite

What does that even mean?

it's an ancient navajo saying, meaning 'ban darramous'.

everytime you do that you spell my name increasingly incorrectly.

It's like all the aspies, geeks and other cunts that never had a voice (quite rightly) before the internet have come together and bred through wires and the result is every single thread on ILX as a horrible vision of society in 20 years or less, when we forget we even have a front fucking door.

man had a point

Ah Ned Ragget I've seen you on wiki. Bellend.

-- Don't Ban Darramouss (Darramouss), Friday, 2 February 2007 03:51 (11 months ago) Bookmark Link

ha. not me guys. i've never posted to ilm with any kind or regularity.

he seems a nice guy though.

Some ILM threads you could post on:

Skrewdriver videos
Buju Banton - 'Til Shilo: C or D
The Best MORRISSEY album

Is Darramouse Madeleine Bunting?

i don't like morrissey, although clearly he has his finger on the pulse politically.

http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2008/07/17/article-0-0053A007000004B0-384_233x423.jpg

Is this Eddie the Eagle?

PEOPLE BE DOWNLOADING KNIFES AND STABING PEOPLE WITH THEM!

Origami flip knive!

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/7736353.stm

RIP big man

pig man

Nick Cohen getting a pasting.

http://www.nextleft.org/2009/03/fact-checking-nick-cohen.html

http://www.nextleft.org/2009/03/fact-checking-nick-cohen.html

http://www.nextleft.org/2009/03/fact-checking-nick-cohen.html

Is Suzanne Moore right wing now? I haven't read anything by her since she wrote for Marxism Today c.1988 :/

― Stevie T, Tuesday, January 29, 2008 11:29 AM (1 year ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

suzennem with the blog war.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2009/mar/23/alastair-campbell-new-statesman

tbh s-mo is right. the NS can fuck off with alastair campbell as guest ed.

i would've voted liz jones in the original poll due to her terrifying insanity

Nick Cohen v Peter Hitchens, at the Orwell Prize Debate.

wait what?

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-1265077/GENERAL-ELECTION-2010-Suzanne-Moore-standing-Hackney-North--Stoke-Newington.html

(nb i don't think suze is rly "right wing" but this would have derailed the gen election thread etc etc)

aw shit son

SARAH SANDS

not that i care too much for diane abbott but i have to admit that i am kind of gleefully anticipating her reaction

http://i.imgur.com/D3sMZyi.jpg

https://pbs.twimg.com/profile_images/719270140215435264/1APQGP65_400x400.jpg

those are some english teeth up there

Hate speech imo, particularly as English teeth >>>>>> Irish teeth

oh dude i have the most english teeth so therefore i am allowed to say that

Young bones groan, and the rocks below say "Throw your skinny latte down, son"

Amazing that there was a Britain before Katie Hopkins, a mere eight years ago.

How many in the original poll, actual politicians aside, have more power (audience/influence-wise) now than then?

The political sketch writer Quentin Letts from Herefordshire has apologised for an article he wrote mocking the disability of broadcaster Andrew Marr.
In a Daily Mail review of the new Robert Peston show on ITV, Letts described Marr as "Captain-Hop-Along, growling away on BBC One, throwing his arm about like a tipsy conductor".
Marr had a stroke in January 2013.

https://twitter.com/thequentinletts/following

Giles Coren has deleted his Twitter account as a result of vicious Momentum thugs/someone on the receiving end of one of his racist tantrums telling all (delete as applicable)

That Giles Coren has deleted his account after this exchange is one of those great Twitter tales, it truly is.@JosieLong who's tweet about the astoundingly bad people included in this new Times Radio thing & responded to the exchange below with incredible dignity, is awesome. pic.twitter.com/mrWV9eqy0u

— Zoe Gardner (@ZoeJardiniere) June 2, 2020

rip big man

Boris Johnson 2

2 Boris 2 Quit

there's a dedicated giles coren thread iirc

dedicated to racism

Boris Johnson 2

... and we know who one of those two was.

this is the true giles coren thread, linked at the point where his awfulness is thoroughly raked-through: Sub-editors: how can I avoid killing them?

also lol Matt DC is cancelled forever XD

lol soz Matt

consistently repping for Hitchens for over 10 years :D

now you have calz to help! :D

obviously if the fbook post of mine dom helpfully retrieved wasn't heavily sarcastic i am very cancelled too. fortunately i am choosing to believe that it was

lol

The full exchange. Good grief. pic.twitter.com/0jpL7WKcYV

— rhys (@rhysjeffs) June 2, 2020

The convo in full btw. At least he took Fiona fucking Bruce down with him.