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
so many fucking piers and andrew marr shit on buses in London right now, feel like I'm in a Warren Ellis comic
― Daniel_Rf, Wednesday, 4 May 2022 13:07 (one year ago) link
Andrew Marr, now UNSILENCED after all those years of being a silenced senior political correspondent and talkshow host
― Critique of the Goth Programme (Neil S), Wednesday, 4 May 2022 13:25 (one year ago) link
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FR6-jVsXEAEp8Z-?format=jpg&name=900x900
lol, Grace Blakeley's "strategic decision" to get on the Murdoch payroll to get a left-wing perspective out there is going very well.
― calzino, Wednesday, 4 May 2022 15:26 (one year ago) link
I will have a quick scan of this piece later but Aaron made a judgement to welcome him etc.
That map of the ‘pro Putin infosphere’ including Zara Sultana, Diane Abbott, Jess Barnard, Jeremy Corbyn, Tribune and Novara Media, created by @paulmasonnews, is allegedly real. A wealth of emails/documents are included in this extraordinary piece. https://t.co/HPFvYYr9M9— Aaron Bastani (@AaronBastani) June 8, 2022
― xyzzzz__, Wednesday, 8 June 2022 08:14 (one year ago) link