As a person paid to write for a living why would he understand what words mean?
― Khafre's clown (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 30 December 2021 20:13 (two years ago) link
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.
― calzino, Thursday, 30 December 2021 20:49 (two years ago) link
I see Giles Coren is at it again
― Number None, Tuesday, 18 January 2022 17:47 (two years ago) link
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.
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.
― calzino, Sunday, 6 February 2022 09:06 (two years ago) link
That quote can't be real I must be hallucinating it.
― xyzzzz__, Sunday, 6 February 2022 09:28 (two years ago) link
"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.
― xyzzzz__, Sunday, 6 February 2022 09:32 (two years ago) link
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.
― calzino, Sunday, 6 February 2022 09:36 (two years ago) link
Really amused that Peter H thinks men applying moisturiser is some kind of tell in 2022.
― mardheamac (gyac), Sunday, 6 February 2022 10:07 (two years ago) link
well these handsome male politicians "in the age of the internet" (like Kieth lol) can't be having dry skin issues!
― calzino, Sunday, 6 February 2022 10:19 (two years ago) link
perhaps it's more about the age of HD televisions
― calzino, Sunday, 6 February 2022 10:20 (two years ago) link
that's not moisturiser it's glaze
― Reader, I buried him (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 6 February 2022 10:52 (two years ago) link
Peter Glaze
― Ward Fowler, Sunday, 6 February 2022 11:05 (two years ago) link
i have no wish to know whether he does that
― Reader, I buried him (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 6 February 2022 11:13 (two years ago) link
he seasons his face with a teaspoon of smoked paprika
― calzino, Sunday, 6 February 2022 11:33 (two years ago) link
hence his somewhat goulash appearance
― o shit the sheriff (NickB), Sunday, 6 February 2022 11:34 (two years ago) link
lol
― Bastards of Fish (Tom D.), Sunday, 6 February 2022 11:48 (two years ago) link
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.
― chap, Sunday, 6 February 2022 14:21 (two years ago) link
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)
― mark s, Sunday, 6 February 2022 20:33 (two years ago) link
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.
― calzino, Sunday, 6 February 2022 20:55 (two years ago) link
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
― Reader, I buried him (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 6 February 2022 22:29 (two years ago) link
Also anybody wanna buy a copy of Socialist Worker?
― Reader, I buried him (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 6 February 2022 22:30 (two years ago) link
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!
― calzino, Sunday, 6 February 2022 23:02 (two years ago) link
it was the IS = the international socialism group, which became the swp and which his brother was also in
... as was Garry Bushell.
― Bastards of Fish (Tom D.), Sunday, 6 February 2022 23:10 (two years ago) link
indeed
(tho i don't think he's ever denied it)
― mark s, Sunday, 6 February 2022 23:30 (two years ago) link
doing Sun columns and nazi-monikered oi compilations keeps one honest, guv.
― calzino, Sunday, 6 February 2022 23:33 (two years ago) link
'Marxist training' is such a weird way of putting it - they like quoting someone attached to some form of BLM saying that.
― a hallan shaker loon (dowd), Monday, 7 February 2022 09:12 (two years ago) link
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!
― Scampo di tutti i Scampi (ShariVari), Tuesday, 15 February 2022 10:28 (two years ago) link
lool!
― calzino, Tuesday, 15 February 2022 10:31 (two years ago) link
obviously a dunderhead fan
― o shit the sheriff (NickB), Tuesday, 15 February 2022 11:14 (two years ago) link
Weird.
― since dozzell was a fixture (Tom D.), Tuesday, 15 February 2022 11:18 (two years ago) link
the great man is himself baffled by this
as by everything else
he's the waluigi chiles
― mark s, Tuesday, 15 February 2022 11:36 (two years ago) link
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.
― calzino, Tuesday, 15 February 2022 11:46 (two years ago) link
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
― xyzzzz__, Tuesday, 8 March 2022 07:48 (two years ago) link
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
― xyzzzz__, Tuesday, 15 March 2022 23:12 (two years ago) link
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
― xyzzzz__, Tuesday, 22 March 2022 15:08 (two years ago) link
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
― mardheamac (gyac), Friday, 25 March 2022 12:52 (two years ago) link
"they hate us for our freedoms to terf"
― a spectre is haunting your mom (Noodle Vague), Friday, 25 March 2022 14:54 (two years ago) link
“He may be an unpalatable demagogue, but at least Uncle Vova knows what a woman is!”
― mardheamac (gyac), Friday, 25 March 2022 15:22 (two years ago) link
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
― rob, Friday, 25 March 2022 15:23 (two years ago) link
When did Matthew Le Tissier start drinking the Kool-Aid?
― Dan Worsley, Tuesday, 5 April 2022 21:33 (two years ago) link
He's been an utter prick for at least a decade.
― lilcraigyboi (Craigo Boingo), Wednesday, 6 April 2022 10:39 (two years ago) link
I knew that but he seems to have pivoted to full Icke recently.
― Dan Worsley, Wednesday, 6 April 2022 13:07 (two years ago) link
Blame the pandemic. Or Ralph Hasenhüttl.
― Phil McCracken (Tom D.), Wednesday, 6 April 2022 13:20 (two years ago) link
Hahaha oh my fucking god pic.twitter.com/NBrzls4I8O— Tom Williams (@shirleymush) April 3, 2022
― Number None, Wednesday, 6 April 2022 17:43 (two years ago) link
in an increasingly troubled, confusing, violent world maybe it takes a man like Matt Le Tissier to really make sense of it all
― a spectre is haunting your mom (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 6 April 2022 18:24 (two years ago) link
One nation under a mood.
Fairly graceless from Ed Sheeran to win his case and still moan like he's lost... Just a nation of whiners these days.— Harry Cole (@MrHarryCole) April 6, 2022
― nashwan, Friday, 8 April 2022 12:03 (two years ago) link
News!! I’m going to be a panellist on The News Desk with Tom Newton Dunn on Talk TV - News UK’s new TV channel.I’ll be on every Thursday from next week with Adam Boulton and Bim Afolami - with whom I am sure I will have some spirited debates…You can watch online or on TV.— Grace Blakeley (@graceblakeley) April 13, 2022
― xyzzzz__, Wednesday, 13 April 2022 10:08 (two years ago) link
can we get a mod to take out the unnecessary "Right-Wing" qualifier in the title?
― a spectre is haunting your mom (Noodle Vague), Friday, 15 April 2022 08:43 (two years ago) link
The Matt Le Tissier interview in The Times is, on the whole, maddening. But the way he describes himself as a non-conformist by *checks notes* talking about the fact he drinks Malibu and coke instead of lager is genuinely hilarious. pic.twitter.com/uIj4fybPHE— Felix Keith (@felixkeith) April 29, 2022
― o shit the sheriff (NickB), Friday, 29 April 2022 19:09 (one year ago) link
Wow pic.twitter.com/c9JA228uhA— Simon A (@sdlezark) May 4, 2022
― xyzzzz__, Wednesday, 4 May 2022 12:14 (one year ago) link