British Right-Wing Pundits

I'm still on the Spanish war thing (thanks for that link calzino btw, it is fascinating). Leonard Barnes seems like a dude.

xxxp would suggest that it is "nothing" in the sense that it has not been thought about in enough depth to be even considered an idea, it's not badly phrased, it's just utter stupidity presented very poorly.

just look at this, should be a really simple joke, she simply cannot put the words together properly

I’m really worried that it was coming home but it was being delivered by Hermes, so they prematurely said it was home but it’s not actually here and it might be lost in transit forever...

— Flora Gill (@FloraEGill) July 11, 2021

should say thanks to calzino for the Revolutions suggestion, Francisco Madero truly is the Kier Starmer of early 20th century Mexico.

Baron Boris Vladimirovich Stürmer - the Kieth of early 20th century Russia, but he was actually a PM for some time so perhaps not!

This is such a brutal putdown

It reminds me of an incident a few years ago in which a group of lefty men denigrated me as “Chuka Umunna’s intern” because they couldn’t get their head round the fact a woman with brown skin might be on a think tank advisory board. (They didn’t target anyone else on that board.)

— Sonia Sodha (@soniasodha) July 30, 2021

Sonia is such a load of garbage. Good to see her getting rinsed.

"Student-like nature of their politics"

Incidentally, that’s why I momentarily liked a tweet that was a dig at the student-like nature of their politics. I unliked it pretty quickly though because I felt it was a bit beneath me - when they go low, we go high after all 😉.

— Sonia Sodha (@soniasodha) July 30, 2021

It would be pitiful except, y'know, paid loads of money to be this thick

Whatever Novara's faults that was a pretty good piece on Corbyn and Starmer. The liking and unliking of Kamm's tweet is the thing I'd call infantile.

rare footage of the "rob (dog)" cited in the review:
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/fe/Rob_para_dog.jpg

TIL that the victoria cross for animals is called the "dickin' medal"

I knew this and have always had big questions about what constitutes bravery in an animal

I bet Rob would have traded that silly award in for a nice big ham bone .. oo-er

my dog is very brave he runs into barbed wire like it's string and sometimes attempts to digest whole socks, he'd be make a great military labbie.

It is extremely funny to me that journalists have been heavily On Twitter for so long but they *still* simply cannot believe that normal people are allowed to respond to - even critique! - them. They've been in the denial stage of grief over this for over a decade now lol

— ACAB Rees-Mogg (@jelly_pack) July 30, 2021

I guess before social media the idea writers were smarter than their readers was pretty common. Most writers that struggle with what the tweet is describing started out before then.

not sure how consciously strategic it was, but one of the innovations of the gawker stable -- its layers of internal chat-groups, like kinja (which was i believe propietary and intended as a selling point) but also a semi-dedicated slack, which evolved alongside it, meant that a large-ish gang of writers came up very used to a kind of pre-emptive collective process of crypto-editing-by-competing-readers, a much less intimately secluding editing context than existed in the old days… which i think has made it less startling -- for that micro-generation of writers -- to have to adapt to the presence in social media of large gangs of highly critical readers joking abt yr work in friendly and in unfriendly ways. there's still an inside and an outside to the banter -- and the tale of that stable didn;t exactly go smoothly and always had other issues, but that's a development (including a potential for managed transparency) that the older publishing structures don't seem to have adapted well to. i think bcz it entails major challenges to established hierarchy (tho i likely establishes new hierarchies and also exarcerbates the problem of writers obsessing much too much in public abt the inner proecudures of publishing) (not that i mind, i love that shit)

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/E8pd0YLWUAQUHG0?format=jpg&name=900x900

this spiffing chap who is married to the PM's press secretary and is best mates with Rishi has a solution to the stress the chaotic UK government has given rise to: find some solace in the season finale of The Crown that will never get made because of too much paedophile and death content.

Lionel Shriver going full Waitrose-Katie-Hopkins in The Spectator today.

‘More than a third of UK births now involve at least one foreign-born parent; in parts of London, 80 per cent of births are to foreign--born mothers.’

✍️ Lionel Shriverhttps://t.co/AveBeSWR5Z

— The Spectator (@spectator) August 30, 2021

if there was such a thing as a functioning "cancel-culture" you'd never hear another word from this one hit wonder

She has released SEVEN novels in the past decade and only one has a Wikipedia article, that's pretty telling.

yeah there is definitely a correlation between declining book sales and increasing desperate shouty loudness of her racism

is the window shifting a bit so that replacement theory is now part of a "robust debate" rather than rabid fringe fascist blathering?

She writes that Tweet like she’s not foreign-born herself.

no she’s not she’s white. headline & terminology is just a bit of arse covering misdirection

great replacement shit has been mainstream here for a while tbh liberals and more than a few leftists have been entertaining it for years too

Not sure Lionel schriver is a liberal. Not many liberals are into loyalism despite being from America

Hold on one of my parents was 'foreign'! Although since they were also white I suppose it's not an issue, phew. Hoping for "The Great Pundit Replacement" to happen some time soon although not holding my breath.

the number of self-identifying Irish-Americans are six times that of the current RoI population, but they are a great set of white American lads!

She’s from northern Irish prod stock and explicitly identifies as a Unionist.

there's a cosy photo of her with a UFF mug

This pic will never not be shown when she pops up on here...

Nice mug. pic.twitter.com/g0u4QXZ3eu

— Mupper (@mupper2) August 31, 2021

xped by CAL I was right!

yeah I vaguely remember her posting a pic with a UDA cup or something like that

She's a worthless troll. So, of course, she has no problem finding platforms for her worthless trolling.

Just trying to imagine how much work a left-wing journalist would get if they posed with an IRA mug, guessing literally none.

I remember a R4 program by her with no racist content, more sort of talking about her childhood and her transformation into a great writer. She's very dull and most certainly never has suffered from imposter syndrome or any kind of self doubt.

I see her husband is a jazz drummer, perhaps she can get him a strap on bass drum as a pressie and they can go on a romantic marching season holiday.

^^^the marching season joke that needed to happen somehow.

FTR my Irish ancestors were Protestant but AFAICT they were Methodist so probably not at all sectarian.

Dorian is now writing for the cow blog

Enjoyed this piece by @Dorianlynskey about the lack of strong negative opinions at the moment in criticism. https://t.co/aAn5yr9KT0 It's something I think about a lot in terms of film-writing right now, and I think Dorian gets to the heart of it.

— Caspar Salmon (@CasparSalmon) September 6, 2021

sharing space with the likes of Douglas Murray now is it? lol what a wanker

He has been for a while but I think they pay many people £1 per word. Not that I would ever want to write for them.

using that risible Scott Tobias piece on Shrek as an example of critics being silenced by the twitter mob is quite unworthy of a quid a word!

To mark 20 years since 9/11 Brendan has provided us with an extra-specially-stupid take, I mean this one is going to be really hard to beat.

https://i.imgur.com/qxjFd5P.png

How can there be so little brain lurking within Brendan's massive noggin?

and LOL I just discovered that Spiked have blocked me on Twitter. Such snowflakes.

i'm not saying Brendan isn't a 5 watt bulb, but he also knows what he's doing with stuff like the Osama piece, who he's playing to, and how he's shaping the long term background music

not sure how this one is playing (he has long ago blocked me) but surely this take is so ridiculous that even his usual fans will be going "nah"

One of the best things about the pandemic is that Brendan O'Neill has disappeared from our TV screens, the only Spiked person you regularly see these days is Ella Whelan but, to compensate, she is on everything.

baldlisted by the UK establishment because they just can't handle the bald truth

just a neutral news aggregation service pic.twitter.com/SSLgXPLCBZ

— 𝔐𝔞𝔤𝔫𝔢𝔱𝔰 🧲 (@PerthshireMags) September 14, 2021