British Right-Wing Pundits

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

can't wait for the book about the book

still haven't got over hearing Julie's weird voice tbh

wouldn't be a good "narrated by author" option for audible

Not a journo more of a twitter grifter being utterly deranged

A very lovely man and a brilliant journalist.

— nicole lampert (@nicolelampert) May 8, 2021

astonishing that a published obituary or various commentators on twitter would omit to mention that his "lovely guy" murdered his wife

He was a kind man though and he murdered his wife out of kindness - how could she have wished to live without him after his subsequent suicide (which he failed to accomplish at six times of trying)? Good thing they didn't have children! They'd have been murdered too. What a vile fucking misogynist, as is everyone tweeting about what a wonderful fella he was.

She’s definitely a journo for the Mail but ISTG spends most of her time on FB journo groups pretending she’s not part of Gnasher.

Very sad news. I had the pleasure to work alongside John as he made the world worse to enrich an awful Australian billionaire. I remember him once joking at the Wapping St canteen: “this reminds me of that time I held my wife’s head under water until she died”

— The Magician’s Breakfast (@MagiciansDinner) May 9, 2021

One of the replies to that gives you the warning message: "The following media includes potentially sensitive content." It's a gif of a black football player saying something innocuous. Keep on, Twitter.

I had no idea who you were talking about so had to google - I wasn't going to look at either of those tweets - and wtf?!?! If nothing else it shows why Boris Johnson's serial infidelities and fathering of children willy nilly is no biggie to these cunts.

Yeah everyone above otm, it’s so awful that I saw Jeet Heer pick it up because the rationale is just off the charts

sharon needham
@sharonneedham19
May 8
What a lovely, sensitive tribute you have written to this man. As he helped a lot of young hacks do u fancy following in his footsteps and helping me???

john sturgis
@sturgios
May 8
Nice try! Maybe on another day.

tbh, the problem is less that they would show kindness, empathy and a belief in rehabilitation in relation to someone they knew, it’s that they would actively deny and work against even a fraction of a percentage of the same being shown to anyone they don’t.

mic wright's piece good on this:

https://brokenbottleboy.substack.com/p/the-suns-killer-obit-fleet-streets

I have always maintained that Mathew Parris is the absolute worst of this group of terrible people.

This is disgusting and just the latest example of The Times attacking GRT people — a minority who are never given a voice in the national press and are endlessly vilified. pic.twitter.com/hHOuIkr77i

— Mic Wright 🏳️‍🌈🌋🏴‍☠️ (@brokenbottleboy) May 15, 2021

didn't he grow up in Southern Rhodesia? Vile man. There probably were identical articles in that 30's party's house newspaper

he's very polite though

I find his "polite reasonable sensible thinker" shtick deeply fucking sinister.

BRWP just love telling you things have "gone too far" when what they mean is someone disagrees with them.

It's time we stopped pandering to commentators. Indulging those who claim to be journalists by giving them designated sites and verified account status has gone too far.

you get some horrific guest/nominee combinations with this creep on Great Lives, but lol I still listen to it. I can't remember if the true nadir was Timothy Mallet doing Richard The Lionheart or Al Murry choosing Monty.

Woke Soubz says this piece is spot on, what exactly was "woke" about her? That she was friends with Chuka maybe.

I cannot listen to a minute of Great Lives, it judt seems like an exercise in MP setting himself up as an arbiter of worthiness, second-worst thing on R4 after The Moral Maze.

I have always maintained that Mathew Parris is the absolute worst of this group of terrible people.

OTM.

I feel quite attacked when one of my heroes is featured on GL, but yet still I listen and know it isn't doing me any good!

@michaelrosenyes The Tory Party has been a party of the left since it adopted Blairism under Cameron. One day you might get it. https://t.co/Ll2UjvqKT4

— Peter Hitchens (@ClarkeMicah) May 30, 2021

Hitchens is having a heated discussion with Michael Rosen!

his completely addled version of recent history includes: that Blair was a Eurocommunist, so was Cameron and the BBC amongst many other British institutions has been infiltrated by the left. Some proof of this is that the BBC don't often invite him back these days.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/E3XnEdaXoAEn0rz?format=jpg&name=large

cancelled again, too racist even for the Torygraph.

still trying to edgelord in your sixties - that is beyond tragic.

lol, jfc at both of those. It's such a shame cancel culture never fucking sticks.

oh she'll still get plenty of work in the UK media. It's slightly surprisingly that the Torygraph actually have a line on racism that you can't cross, probably a difficult line to define but it's obv there!

you've got to do polite racism like Parris does.

you can do all the racism you like in the telegraph but you can't say that a ROYAL baby named after HER MAJESTY and PRINCESS DIANA OF ALL OUR HEARTS should instead be named "Georgina Floydina" - she should have saved her shit fucking joke for the baby of a musician or an actor, her editor would have loved it.

she probably thought it was open

season (that fucking couple) and no rules applied.

fuck giles coren

if you've lucked into the job of going to fancy restaurants for a living you'd think you'd count yr blessings and try to be a somewhat affable presence

he's deleted the tweet, the disgusting little weasel