British Right-Wing Pundits

can we get a mod to take out the unnecessary "Right-Wing" qualifier in the title?

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

Wow pic.twitter.com/c9JA228uhA

— Simon A (@sdlezark) May 4, 2022

so many fucking piers and andrew marr shit on buses in London right now, feel like I'm in a Warren Ellis comic

Andrew Marr, now UNSILENCED after all those years of being a silenced senior political correspondent and talkshow host

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.

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

oh I didn't realise the recipient of the Mason emails was a shady MI6 adjacent character. And I never realised Novara Media and Tribune were part of the pro-Putin Gallowayite-Williamsonite Terrorist Centre!

"this is allegedly real" is a hard sentence to translate lol

God this is just awful.

Final word on this for now. I know this might seem funny for some, but this is deeply scary behaviour that should never be allowed near politics. How on earth can working class people be political if journos are permitted to libel us and set intelligence agencies on us?

— Jess Barnard (@JessicaLBarnard) June 8, 2022

anyone whoever participated with any "stoya come to athens" bantz or lampooned his "kieth advance the class struggle" post is now part of the “pro-Putin Info Sphere”

Paul Mason is unwell.

Right, you're on the list.

just to cool everyone's jets a teeny wee bit, the grayzone piece is co-authored by max blumenthal, who's been an oz katerji-level prick for years (and a vax sceptic)

(also son of clinton-adviser sidney blumenthal, who some will remember from the monica lewinsky hoohah lol)

My point stands

I don't think it really matters what krank sites are commenting on the Mason emails and what they are making of it, the important thing here is that it now seems from his own response that they are very likely a 100% legit.

It’s disturbing and I trust the police will investigate thoroughly. https://t.co/xCPDXE74eh

— Oliver Kamm (@OliverKamm) June 8, 2022

kickstarter to huis clos all these fvcks in a room far from the rest of us

Give the guy a break, constructing byzantine conspiracy theories about your comrades and sending them to secret service ghouls is clearly just a tribute to Orwell

agent Mason aka the Hammer of the Trots

at least we now know that havana syndrome exists, no other scientific way to explain his brainstate imo

well he did say in his recent campaign declaration to run as a Labour MP that he's from a family of weavers

look at me, proud ancestry.com weaver Masons - look at my dynamic mindmap!

unimaginative prompt but results aren't bad

https://i.postimg.cc/bY5Z7s90/Screenshot-20220608-151658-Chrome.jpg

Mason has rather gone off the deep end in recent times, suggesting that even @OwenJones84 and @michaeljswalker were pushing Putin talking points on Ukraine, Israel and NATO.pic.twitter.com/7FhwLfBcK5

— Alan MacLeod (@AlanRMacLeod) June 8, 2022

He's found a new stick to beat his enemies with, he's going to get some use out of it.

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the quite touching mutual respect between Mason and one of his comrades from the *100% independent* "home of online investigations" Bellingcat

As I think I've mentioned before, the only newspaper website we can access where I work is the Telegraph, which is wall-to-wall British right wing pundits of course. When it comes to true swivel-eyed loons though it's hard to top Allister Heath:

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2022/06/15/britain-ruins-thanks-failed-dogmas-permanent-leftist-elite/

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hmm, that reads like a load of crypto-fascist nonsense about "the enemy within", shurely shum mishtake?

The guy's a fanatic.

"to wrestle power from acronym-wielding experts"

yes, let's listen to intellectual heavyweights like Michael Gove instead

talking of crypto-fascism I used to work with someone who looked just like a blonde haired version of him and his surname was Goering!

Why do these people always look like their human skin is too itchy & uncomfortable and they are looking forward to getting home and taking it off?

xp emphasis very much on the "fasicst" part of "crypto-fascist", in fact "crypto" is probably entirely redundant!

"crypto" as in bellowing non-stp abt the ponzi schemes all normal social technologies are being replaced by

fascism, but with added JPEGs of poorly drawn cartoon monkeys

talking of crypto-fascism I used to work with someone who looked just like a blonde haired version of him and his surname was Goering!

lol

Remember this pompous ass? I could point out that Carry On Up the Khyber was literally on last week and The Sweeney is on permanently on one or other channel but Simon Heffer probably only has a black and white 15 inch Rediffusion telly with two buttons - one for BBC 1 and one for the independent channel.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/tv/0/tvs-hypocritical-trigger-warnings-reveal-hidden-double-standard/

when even Bellingcat are describing him as a "Walter Mitty idiot" Private Eye have taken Spymaster Mason's web of internal security threats at face value, lol even referring to him as "left-wing journalist". Someone suggested it's probably Cohen or Wheen who wrote it. Some of the bits about Grayzone might be valid criticism, but all journalistic cred died in the first paragraph. I stopped reading the Eye yonks ago because the print is so small - it's a struggle even with reading glasses. Not been missing much it seems.

Not renewing my long-held PE subscription because it's got really TERFy over the last couple of years.

Imagine being this fucking ignorant and not embarrassed about it at all?

This week, Dorian announces he’d assumed “Neoliberalism” was just a boo-word, a slur hurled by dumb socialists because how could one word apply to both Pinochet and Obama? Now, having read books by other smart people, he realises it’s not only real but ubiquitous and dominant. pic.twitter.com/4OuuSdwIfS

— Flying_Rodent (@flying_rodent) June 27, 2022

Thank you Flying Rodent for listening to these so we don't have to. Not that we had to, or wanted to, but 30 seconds to read a summary is fine.

perhaps they should have learned this at least 10-20 years ago lol. To misquote Lou Reed: you are going get done in public when you are growing up in public with your pants down.

perhaps pretending to know fuck all about what they've been podcasting, writing books and Unherd/Spectator/NS pieces about for years is a clever ploy to get more clicks than they'd otherwise get. It might work in the short term but it renders everything else they've ever wrote as the work of ignorant imbeciles!

this dynamic duo, with a history of dismissing people who refer to "neoliberalism" as ignorant lefty plebs who lack nuance, unlike smartest balds in the room like them.

A lot of ppl also say that grifter is just a boo-word meaninglessly applied to anyone you don’t like but now they can listen to this podcast and realise it’s not only real but ubiquitous and dominant

Absolutely obsessed with this tweet

Oh and there’s also a doubling of something odd called ‘scromiting’. That’s screaming and vomiting which lasts for weeks on end, with no treatment. A result of long term use of high potency cannabis.

— Eve Simmons (@EveSimmns) July 2, 2022

I'm poscromiting as I tpye tihs

(posting, scraemnig & vmoiting)

her following up with complaints about being "burnt at the stake" after some people laughed at her on Twitter was also *chef's kiss*