Worst white man on the cover of the New Statesman's 'Great White Male' issue

sounds like a dunn deal

http://www.cbgxtra.com/blogs/beautiful-balloons/clive-by-mcgill-and-poelsma

http://www.lrb.co.uk/v36/n20/michael-hofmann/splashing-through-the-puddles

Its a bumper issue of Great White maleness: http://www.lrb.co.uk/v36/n20/owen-hatherley/who-will-stop-them

Been watching lots of Simon Munnery recently and this is one of many I liked..

"If a million monkeys were given a million typewriters, eventually one of them might produce the complete works of Shakespeare but to reach it would it be worth wading through four hundred copies of "Money" by Martin Amis?"

man that review of the new amis is really brutal. loled tho cuz i read time's arrow and the gulag one but i had no idea he'd written another fastidious little novel set pompously against the midnight of the century. cmon man.

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brilliant results tbh

Parsons was robbed.

Dylan Jones suffering bigtime from FPTP voting system.

i tried to read the grayson perry lead article (in fairness, i should probably get past the first few 100 words before commenting) but his glee seemed more about the act than the actual message. i.e. i wasnt entirely sure he actually believed what he was trying to say or if he just liked the apparent 'naughtiness' (i was going to say radicalness but naughtiness/outrageousness seems to fit the tone better). but then i just thought that if a white male hadnt written this piece, no one at the NS would probably have cared that much.

AA Gill on the politics of the suit are you fucking kidding me

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couldn't this shit make it up

he's just thinking bout how he could make the planet earth bald

I mean, I guess Webb is kind of a lightweight when compared to the full on tossitude of Parsons and Amis and Gill and Botton and Fry. But give him 20, 30 years and I'm sure he'll get there.

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beat the spread by a good 15 years

Only ONE vote for Matthew Parris, ILX I am not angry with you, just very disappointed.

anyway this is a great nostalgia trip back to a long bygone age where these threads would attract a host of disingenuous "what's wrong with Scumbag X?" posts

"He's got the whole world, in his hands.. he's got the whole world.. in his hands.."

"Not the biggest Baddiel fan but "snivelling 'liberal' apologist for ladbantz bollocks" was his schtick 20 years ago, not now."

yes he's somehow been even almost worse than he was then, but he did stop doing blackface tbf

I'm amused that I didn't even know who Matthew Parris was at the time of this poll. Happier days of ignorant bliss! Bragg is a wanker but I still consider In Our Time a decent program and I guarantee whichever cunt replaces him when he succumbs to dementia will be a thousand times worse than him.

Was gonna say, Webb and Baddiel would have gotten way more votes this time 'round.

And Alain de Botton way less.

Did everyone forget who Will Self was?

45 years ago today (4 November 1977), the New Statesman published this article about divisions in the Communist Party of Great Britain. It is the first written use that I have found of the term ‘tankie’ to describe someone who (uncritically) supported the Soviet Union. pic.twitter.com/plCY3gk9Ge

— Evan Smith (@evansmithhist) November 4, 2022

This is a very … peculiar framing, but I do wonder where all the Statesman’s sugar daddy money has gone. The magazine’s professional irritants (and Will Lloyd, who commissions the worst of them) can’t be that expensive to run. pic.twitter.com/gLn4cK157g

— Elvis Buñuelo (@Mr_Considerate) November 18, 2023