spiked - the independent online phenomenon

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If Morrissey's autobiography is crap, how will Penguin recover from having released it as a classic? Actually, even if it's good, still some very serious questions will have to be asked about Penguin's ability to be the gatekeeper of the best of human knowledge and writing when it is willing to publish a pop star's musings alongside the greatest literature of all time. Penguin is effectively using the word classic in the same way young people now use it – not to mean a work of art of recognised and substantial value, but rather to mean "wicked, dude".

"wicked, dude"

Dude, it's meant to be funny.

Independent going in hard on this too.

. How do you wreck overnight the reputation of a global brand that, since 1946, has built up its worldwide trust on the basis of consistent excellence, expert selection and a commitment to pick and sell only the very best? Easy, really. You chuck 67 years of editorial rigour and learning out of the corporate window and kowtow to the whims of a petulant pop icon.

Though without the dated youth speak.

pretty sure i could v. quickly find a list of 20 or more Penguin Classics that let the side down more than this tedious Moz jape. having said that, fuck this tedious Moz jape.

iiiiiiiiiiin one

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That is a Modern Classic, rather than a Classic.

i thought Moz is going in Modern Classics? either way, one could argue that a section of both lists is the pulp/genre fiction of its day, lent dignity with time

It's going to be a black-jacketed Classic according to Penguin's website. There's tonnes of pulp stuff on both lists but they're mostly notable / important books, even if they are't, strictly speaking, any good. It's bad brand management, i think, but it will probably boost the Classic imprint's revenues about 1000% this year.

it is bad brand management but i never have to own it, so.

it wd be less bad brand management if Morrissey was half the writer his devotees think he is.

Yes, i'm just annoyed that it puts paid to my plan to own every Penguin Classic ever printed.

Best thing about that Penguin cover is the distinct whiff of fascism that illustration gives off.

lol

Is there a site like Arts & Letters Daily except not so stupid?

still love the chronicle but christ the aldaily is um problematic

"The global economy has its ugly corners but the overall system delivers more happiness than all the failed utopias of the past. Disagreeing with this makes you a pathetic faggot, SOME AUSTRIALIAN COLUMNIST explains..."

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"do you think Hitler was bad? Guess what, Stalin was really bad also. BOOK REVIEWER FOR SPIKED ONLINE elucidates..."

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o god the thought of siding with the Spiked massive might drive me to vote "Stay" after all

Golly, Spiked on the same side as the hard right, what strange bedfellows.

Have noticed a female journalist (don't know her name) from Spiked has been popping on telly lately, just saw her discussing International Women's Day on Sky News... I think you can guess what she thinks of it, in fact you could probably guess at every single word that comes out of her mouth.

She was hugely in favour of celebrating feminism and campaigning against all the very real inequalities that women throughout the world are still subject to?

Not quite.

Damn I thought I had it

tbh she was thrown when the Sky presenter pointed out that not every woman in the world lives in Zone 1 (some live in Zone 4), paraphrasing somewhat there. Not very impressive all round.

These are all people making up in later life for all the fun they missed out on by not being Young Conservatives tbf

Another day, another 12 year old from Spiked arguing the toss on Sky News, this time about the statue of Cecil Rhodes that some students want removed from some Oxford college.

o man the so-called politically correct brigade are censoring our glorious history which shd totally be celebrated

waging a culture war of words against misanthropy, priggishness, prejudice, luddism, illiberalism and irrationalism

k I reckon supporting Cecil scores as misanthropy, prejudice, Luddism and illiberalism at least

Seems like programme makers have discovered Spiked, so expecting more appearances from these twats.

when oh when will old white imperialists be given the respect they deserve?

found an old Graun piece by intellectual heavyweight Will Hutton of a similar stripe to the Spikeistas equating "not having monuments celebrating dead imperialists" with "re-writing history" which seems a bit of a stretch tbh

"remember when they pulled down that statue of Lenin and then everybody forgot what happened in Russia in 1917?"

maybe there's something to be said for leaving shameful effigies in place as a reminder of the more hateful episodes of our history?

oh wait we still have david cameron so i guess that covers all those bases [/trenchant social commentary]

O'Neill. Daniels. Two men.

man this site has really gone hard on the rape denialism in the past few weeks.

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powerful

Claire Fox, talking about people on the left posts overreacting to Trump's tweets, "... and I'm from the Left". Hard to follow that one.

Seems like programme makers have discovered Spiked, so expecting more appearances from these twats.

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Three in the last 24 hours: Big Bren himself, throwing his support behind the Boris/Gove/JRM coup; specky freedom of speech at all costs 12-year old; "the biggest problem women have today are these middle class feminists" middle class woman.

exterminate the brutes is probably in order at this point

Brendan O'Really? putting on a fine save-a-Trump performance right now, what with the campaign against the President by the liberal mainstream media and Hilary not exactly being squeaky clean either, dontchaknow. Time to forget Hillsborough too btw.

I'd love to see Brendan getting beaten to death by a gang of Scouse football hooligans! But let's not forget he is friendly with some 90's ILM indie counterculture heroes, who are apparently beyond criticism.

Oh who?

The Stereolab connexion.

Need a bit more than that? Brendan's buddies w/ Laetitia?

I doubt it. But they all drink from the same cup. The Furedi Cup.

lol! here we go again!

band with lifelong association with right-wing posh arseholes are completely blameless... again!

if you like their music it doesn't really matter, but apparently taking the piss out of them on message boards is out of control wokeness!

you're not really responding to anyone itt rn

well I am and cross referencing another thread, tbf.