British Right-Wing Pundits

come on guys, don't be down, there's absolutely a future for journalism in the UK, as part of a revolving door buddy system with finance and the conservative party

the editor at my local rag - Wayne Anker probably doesn't have a safe job. But nominative determinism and all that, he has a big future in the game.

just realised i had somehow been recently unfollowed from the shropshire star on twitter, another grim sign of decline

lest we forget:

County councillor in resurfacing row https://t.co/cGVpTXJI7M pic.twitter.com/8J7dVLzG2T

— SHROPSHIRE (@DailySHROPSHIRE) August 14, 2019

awestruck that Wayne Anker is real

it's real

but honestly, that really is his name

i googled him!

OMGLOL

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Feyv_A4WIAA86ny?format=jpg&name=900x900

Imagine if you will being a student and paying money to see Mike Graham talk

If you thought removing miniature #Bounty bars from Celebrations was distressing, then just wait until you see the world’s shittest selection box. pic.twitter.com/2h7wqZPREw

— Miffy (@miffythegamer) November 3, 2022

improve the quality of UK discourse with this one simple IED

Darren Grimes uncancelled I see?

Not quite a pundit, more a right-wing fantasist/grifter, I suppose.

https://www.dutchnews.nl/news/2022/11/dutch-ban-british-conspiracy-theorist-david-icke-from-entering-nl/

remember when his views were like oh my god can you believe anyone thinks like this and not semi-mainstream

Hate that twitter makes me aware of worms like Lee Harpin..

a) this call didn't happen b) rejection by friends/family/your community is the single most painful thing about being on the Jewish left, and has brought me to my lowest ever moments. Is pointing that out supposed to be some kind of gotcha? https://t.co/q8WYFej4Hi

— Rivkah Brown (@RivkahBrown) November 24, 2022

Lee Harpin used to be an Edgy Style Mag contributor. Always a total bell-end.

Yeah in a crowded field his behaviour has been particularly disgusting these past few days.

creepy Lee Harpin pic.twitter.com/6IYteDCEza

— wariotifo (@wariotifo) November 25, 2022

he's got a very *colourful* cv

There’s quite a bit I could say here…

Really needs to be a 77 version of this thread

It's not about age, that's someone who grifts.

“A society that no longer understands the Bible is a society that will struggle to commune with its past – or with itself.”

Madeline Grant is 29. pic.twitter.com/y0K1dLcbrL

— Mic Wright (@brokenbottleboy) November 30, 2022

Madeleine Grant is the daughter of Sally Jones, and mum’s a Tory too.

You probably won't be able to read this but it's a Telegraph writer waxing nostalgic about growing up during the Troubles and having lots of friendly British soldiers patrolling the streets. Great bunch o' lads, so they were.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/columnists/2022/12/09/growing-troubles-quite-looking-forward-seeing-soldiers-streets/

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2022/dec/18/jeremy-clarkson-condemned-meghan-column-the-sun

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FmQsnmtXkAADMDT?format=jpg&name=small

imagine watching Mark Dolan present Balls of Steel in 2005 and someone telling you that it would actually be the least worst thing he was ever involved in

A Celebration of Dissent hosted by Marc Bolan.

the god-given right of any Englishman to drive their Mini directly into a tree

I'm too sexy for my steering

He wasn't driving, in a situation which acts as a kind of metaphor fro the plight of Prince Harry, he was being driven by an American woman of dubious ethnicity.

Never quite sure if Sir Christopher Chope is real or a Twitter pretend thing

Right Said Fred still on the anti-vaxx thing I'm assuming? Those types get sadder every day, everyone else has moved on...

its becoming clear that Andrew Bridgen is making moves for that post MP career as a GB News presenter.

Climate change seems to be the next big battleground.

Whatever else happens, half of this treehouse meeting will be spent chastising Harry and Meghan for dissenting.

When chatting ignorant and dangerous shit gets you the most attention you've had in years it must be very hard for some people to give it up

just a shame that Brendon O'Neill and his massive forehead were unavailable

The forehead is always available.

got some front on him that guy

right said forehead

Kind of mildly fascinated by Andrew Lawrence, who started out as a pretty good* character comic on Radio 4, then had a few meltdowns on social media and decided he wasn't getting gigs on TV because feminism - the real reason seems to be that the freaky furious weasely "character" was in fact his genuine personality. Since then he has made a complete fool of himself on Twitter, saying appalling things, having gigs cancelled, inevitably making this part of his act and finally finding a home with the Andrew Doyle crowd. He does these videos in character as a thug in which you are supposed to agree with him, Jonathan Pie style, but the thug "character" is played with open contempt for the kind of people he's portraying. He seems to be counting on his target audience to not twig this.

*may not be pretty good, I listened to the series once, 13 years ago.

The lesson is, cancel comedy

Right Said Fred still on the anti-vaxx thing I'm assuming? Those types get sadder every day, everyone else has moved on...

― Daniel_Rf, Thursday, January 12, 2023 11:36 AM (three hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

they are now on traffic reduction schemes... which is even more WTF?

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/bike-blog/2023/jan/10/why-do-traffic-reduction-schemes-attract-so-many-conspiracy-theories

A march against the traffic filters plan took place on Sunday in Oxford under the banner of Not Our Future, a new group led by 80s pop duo turned anti-vaxxers Right Said Fred

A woman in my work, who seems prone to conspiracy theories, was going on about this thing in Oxford too. It's all about how "they" are now using the false climate emergency to control us.

Piers Corbyn is involved. Inevitably.

it's the latest thing for right-wing psychos to get involved in apparently, as the article mentions Oxford councillors have been getting death threats as a rsult of the conspiracy theories about the traffic reduction scheme there. Where I live in Haringey it seems to be the sole issue that Conservative councillors campaign on- the right to drive your car wherever you damn well like, regardless of the consequences.

of course it should be said that local government may not always proceed by de jure conspiracy but i've little sympathy for local councillors protesting that any benefits that accrue to them thru their jobs are purely accidental and unwelcome

and the tone of some of that Graun article deliberately plays to the evasive distinction

A snapshot of the current obsessions of Daily Telegraph columnists.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture-wars/

... and that's just this month's batch.