I do and I know this is going to sound daft but it has become properly batshit right wing mental recently and is really trying to big up the Tories. Before you got the odd article on the fringe but I liked its general right leaning views on a lot of things but now it is like the Mail. Will be cancelling shortly as it goes.
I used to buy it occasionally the same as I bought a Grauniad or Morning Star to see what they were going on about, but remember reading one while with Mrs Face at a cafe near the Cutty Sark on a lovely day and reading Rod Liddle and thinking this bloke is a definite actual fascist and racist. This was before he beat up his Mrs.
there must be some kind of weird centrist thing where people end up with much the same opinions but people from the right still have a subscription to the speccie, and people from the left still get the morning star. but they both read the times and the FT
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BECAUSE OF GOOD QUALITY JOURNALISM LIKE THAT EXAMPLE!!
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Truly a new Henry Miller
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The academic was too sexy to listen to, so I rushed off to a brothel and made some obliquely racist comments to a Chinese sex worker instead.
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IT’S CALLED JOURNALISM: I’M NOT SURPRISED YOU DON’T UNDERSTAND!!
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The absolute state of that ‘article’…
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I do and I know this is going to sound daft but it has become properly batshit right wing mental recently and is really trying to big up the Tories. Before you got the odd article on the fringe but I liked its general right leaning views on a lot of things but now it is like the Mail. Will be cancelling shortly as it goes.
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old habits. this might be enough to make me cancel it
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I used to buy it occasionally the same as I bought a Grauniad or Morning Star to see what they were going on about, but remember reading one while with Mrs Face at a cafe near the Cutty Sark on a lovely day and reading Rod Liddle and thinking this bloke is a definite actual fascist and racist. This was before he beat up his Mrs.
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That article reads like a Rowley Birkin QC anecdote
And I don’t mind admitting that i was very, very drunk…
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A very weird thing to do. A weirder thing to write about and weirder still that an editor thought "we should definitely publish that".
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My old man gets it. I tend to just flick through for the cartoons which are reasonably amusing.
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WTAF?
As Fence Foal said, the absolute state of it. The author should be ashamed and so should the Spectator, which used to be a serious publication.
Almost as bizarre is Jellymonster's apparent belief that the worst thing about it its supposed raCisT cOmmeNtS!!
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He also admitted that he couldn't be a schoolteacher because he fancies the kids and wouldn't be able to stop himself.
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No. Because I am not an absolute wally.
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there must be some kind of weird centrist thing where people end up with much the same opinions but people from the right still have a subscription to the speccie, and people from the left still get the morning star. but they both read the times and the FT
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Liddle appeared in the alley by St Brides before some journo thing with groupies and iirc was very nearly lamped on principle.
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Not apparent, and not what I said, dux. It's all abhorrent.
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I am an absolute dead on centrist, and I read the FT and the Guardian and on occasion the New Statesman.
The FT is not conventionally right wing. It is pro low tax and business but it is also technocratic and interventionist. Hi tax hi reg
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People say "centrist" as if it's one coherent philosophy.
You have social democrats, classical liberals, distributists, Georgists, etc, etc. And many have very little in common with each other.
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Christian democrats, mutualists.
Basically anything between the extremes of Clubbers and Corbo.
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Her pod Past Present Future is really good.
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