British Right-Wing Pundits

maybe working towards normalising fascism for two different bigoted far right-wing media outlets has taken it's toll on the poor dear.

Ok..

Someone I knew once went on a date with Sathnam and she was horrified when she returned because he spent the entire time talking via a puppet. https://t.co/8pxQZORInl

— FrodoKolo (@FrodoKolo) December 5, 2021

Darren Grimes is set to join GB News in 2022 following the departure of Andrew Neil and Simon McCoy.

He'll be hosting a weekend show called ‘Real Britain'. https://t.co/iLj4Gbn7g9

— Metro (@MetroUK) December 14, 2021

A Tory peer has spent boxing Day going at a 21 yo Leninist. Mad to watch.

Hi Daniel. I think Leninism is invidious. A murderous idea. So I think it worth countering. It’s definitely worth my time.

— Daniel Finkelstein (@Dannythefink) December 26, 2021

Day 3:

I don’t regard myself as anything of the sort, Daniel. As someone who suffered under the austerity you helped inflict, who saw people’s lives destroyed & cut short, I’m simply committed to ensuring that can never happen again and for everyone to have a dignified life https://t.co/v8LkyRkdHr

— Daniel (@DanielEales) December 27, 2021

Incredible content from Aaro to round out the year, this.

By the way (and here’s a complication) why is Prince Andrew ‘privileged’ over, say, me, when I envy nothing about his life or upbringing?

— David Aaronovitch (@DAaronovitch) December 30, 2021

As a person paid to write for a living why would he understand what words mean?

it's tough at the top, eh? what a fuckwit. when he had a regular 10 minute opinion slot on R4 he said that women that talk about the inequities of western patriarchal society need to grow up because "they sound like students". Total fucking dickhead.

I see Giles Coren is at it again

I am not surprised. Most people who report on politics in this country do not understand the subject, lacking the Marxist training which I had in my distant youth. They call Sir Keir ‘moderate’ because he is not Jeremy Corbyn. A fat lot they know.

Jeremy Corbyn is, of course, a wild Leftist, a man of clenched-fist salutes, street protests and red banners who probably dreams of storming Buckingham Palace at the head of a detachment of Red Guards.

But he is one of the obvious, old-fashioned sort, steam-powered, coal-fired. You can see him a mile off and defeat him with ease. Sir Keir is much more dangerous. His fanaticism is as smooth as the moisturiser he applies daily to his handsome face. It is designed for the age of the internet.

P Hitchens in 2020 on Starmer. I don't why he's linked to it today other than he thinks it is a very prescient observation that has aged very well. At least he is funny like a clown.

That quote can't be real I must be hallucinating it.

"Corbyn was so easy to defeat" -- actually he has been far nearer having power than Starmer. He'd be shitting himself if Corbyn was still leader. The argument for re-nationalisation would be overwhelming.

The political class is very lucky that Corbyn had the EU problem to deal with.

also that he was only a thousand + votes away from forming a minority government in 2017 is something that seems to have completely bypassed the Hitch brane. But I think he's going senile tbh.

Really amused that Peter H thinks men applying moisturiser is some kind of tell in 2022.

well these handsome male politicians "in the age of the internet" (like Kieth lol) can't be having dry skin issues!

perhaps it's more about the age of HD televisions

that's not moisturiser it's glaze

Peter Glaze

i have no wish to know whether he does that

he seasons his face with a teaspoon of smoked paprika

hence his somewhat goulash appearance

lol

also that he was only a thousand + votes away from forming a minority government in 2017 is something that seems to have completely bypassed the Hitch brane.

It has bypassed many brains to be fair.

the Marxist training which I had in my distant youth

this is interesting (mildly) (very mildly) (to me alone)): back in the day i seem to recall PH denied he'd ever been a member of whichever marxist groupuscule it was

(it was the IS = the international socialism group, which became the swp and which his brother was also in, and i see that wikipedia now includes PH's membership as a fact, so either i'm misremembering the disavowment lol or he was feebly fibbing back then)

he's forgetting that he was on the trot wing. But some of the claims he makes about the where on the political spectrum of Blair/Starmer/Cameron suggests to me he has some form of dementia. And I don't mean it facetiously.

I didn't know he'd denied his Marxist heritage but his broken binaries very much indicate that you can't take the boy out of etc

Also anybody wanna buy a copy of Socialist Worker?

I think I've internalised that he's slightly different in some mysterious way to other right-wing conservative commentators, probably cos he often criticises NATO and takes alternative positions on post Soviet Russia. But he's still basically a very horrible idiot and often completely clueless!

it was the IS = the international socialism group, which became the swp and which his brother was also in

... as was Garry Bushell.

indeed

(tho i don't think he's ever denied it)

doing Sun columns and nazi-monikered oi compilations keeps one honest, guv.

'Marxist training' is such a weird way of putting it - they like quoting someone attached to some form of BLM saying that.

I must say that one of the last things I expected to see at a Scottish cup tie between Peterhead and Dundee was a banner reading 'Peter Hitchens Dark Blues'. pic.twitter.com/2ZFolrgJKY

— Ruairidh MacLennan (@RuaMacLennan) February 14, 2022

Yes. Yes!

lool!

obviously a dunderhead fan

Weird.

the great man is himself baffled by this

as by everything else

he's the waluigi chiles

he can't work out if they are mocking him or perhaps they've got strong opinions on the wretched imposition of British Summertime in Dundee.

Not a pundit but a hilarious error.

One more for the ‘journalists really ought to study history’ file… pic.twitter.com/MWakgAdikd

— Caroline Dodds Pennock (@carolinepennock) March 7, 2022

Thick as shit..

Yes, I don’t think rent controls work. You’ll find tens of other tweets I’ve written saying the same thing

— Charlotte Gill (@CharlotteCGill) March 15, 2022

New mag just dropped.

The only thread uniting these writers is anti-systems politics (or, to put it another way, anti-liberalism). Not sure that's enough for a magazine. https://t.co/LASdPFi6zA

— Jeet Heer (@HeerJeet) March 22, 2022

Can’t wait for the takes on this one, lads

"It's impossible to imagine such a thing in our country"

President Vladimir Putin uses J K Rowling as an example of Western cynicism and "cancel culture", which he says is currently being aimed at Russia.

Latest on Ukraine: https://t.co/XTFXr6HmAe

📺 Sky 501 and YouTube pic.twitter.com/TyH9lddC5k

— Sky News (@SkyNews) March 25, 2022

"they hate us for our freedoms to terf"

“He may be an unpalatable demagogue, but at least Uncle Vova knows what a woman is!”

Lots of death and destruction but the idea that Putin is sitting in a bunker reading "The Prisoner of Azkaban" all the while nodding his head and muttering, "Another banger. She just doesn't miss" won't leave me alone

— William Paris (@WilliamMParis) March 25, 2022

When did Matthew Le Tissier start drinking the Kool-Aid?

He's been an utter prick for at least a decade.

I knew that but he seems to have pivoted to full Icke recently.

Blame the pandemic. Or Ralph Hasenhüttl.

Hahaha oh my fucking god pic.twitter.com/NBrzls4I8O

— Tom Williams (@shirleymush) April 3, 2022