Alex Callinicos/SWP vs Laurie Penny/New Statesman Facebook handbags

[Fozzie Bear]

The coalition "squatting" in Westminster. The Olympics "squatting" in the East End.

Clever.

 

[ViolentPanda]

The coalition "squatting" in Westminster. The Olympics "squatting" in the East End.

Clever.

I'd suspect that she was ironically aping the Dave Spart school of journalism, except that she hasn't demonstrated having enough of a sense of humour to do so, so the studentish rhetoric is probably in earnest.

 

[Orang Utan]

Okay, which one of you nicked her bag from the Bree Louise? It had all her notes and laptop in. She might not be able to write next column!

 

[Spanky Longhorn]

if only!

However I suspect it was Ryan Gosling

 

[rekil]

Another reason no person or org should let her come anywhere near them. Security nightmare.

 

[JimW]

She might have to just make something up; how unlike all her other columns. Oh yes.

 

[barney_pig]

Big kids stole her homework! Makes a change from the dog ate it I suppose.

 

[kavenism]

And she lost "meaningful" (apparently this means naked!) pictures. She carries naked pictures of herself around? This wouldn't surprise me.

 

[rekil]

just finished Batman piece, sent it to editor only to discover her phone, computer, etc have all been stolen so she's offline

!

 

[DotCommunist]

And she lost "meaningful" (apparently this means naked!) pictures. She carries naked pictures of herself around? This wouldn't surprise me.

don't we all?

 

[killer b]

tbf, where else would you keep naked shots of yourself?

 

[DaveCinzano]

I thought she was all for edgy proletarian expropriation?

 

[DaveCinzano]

tbf, where else would you keep naked shots of yourself?

Posted on the internet

 

[love detective]

another blue peter appeal on the way

 

[articul8]

Last seen complaining about ants in her honey pot. Not clear whether she is speaking figuratively

 

[DaveCinzano]

There's something about Penny Red that minds me of Lionel Blue, only less likeable.

 

[audiotech]

Came across this gem.

 

[Spanky Longhorn]

Came across this gem.

oi last month want's it's lols back!

 

[audiotech]

I did a quick glance back honest.

 

[Bakunin]

She might have to just make something up; how unlike all her other columns. Oh yes.

What, you mean she might have to desperately cobble together some piece of 'teenage diary'-style crap involving excessive hyperbole, desperate attempts to sound like a committed 'activist', a few buzzwords and bits of political jargon that sound great in her head but she doesn't really understand, throw in a couple of suitably-bowdlerised quotes ripped off from interviews done by other hacks and then successfully string all this garbage round some entirely fictional event that happened to her at exactly the right moment, leaving exactly enough time to make another pisspoor effort at stringing 1500 words together..?

Well, I hope she can adjust to this entirely new experience.

 

[Spanky Longhorn]

I did a quick glance back honest.

There's only 126 pages to review

 

[JimW]

What, you mean she might have to desperately cobble together some piece of 'teenage diary'-style crap involving excessive hyperbole, desperate attempts to sound like a committed 'activist', a few buzzwords and bits of political jargon that sound great in her head but she doesn't really understand, throw in a couple of suitably-bowdlerised quotes ripped off from interviews done by other hacks and then successfully string all this garbage round some entirely fictional event that happened to her at exactly the right moment, leaving exactly enough time to make another pisspoor effort at stringing 1500 words together..?

Well, I hope she can adjust to this entirely new experience.

It'll be tough but she's nothing if not a soldier is our Laur.

 

[tufty79]

Okay, which one of you nicked her bag from the Bree Louise? It had all her notes and laptop in. She might not be able to write next column!

and her make up! how on earth is she supposed to be able to write without it?

but wait! the bag came back!
https://twitter.com/PennyRed/status/236126968632983552

Spent all afternoon in Islington police station waiting to recover my rucksack. Laptop and phone gone, precious jewelry and for some reason

...the thieves also took a rather nice lipgloss and my favourite purple-brown eyeliner. But they left the rest of my makeup.

https://twitter.com/PennyRed/status/236127167497527296
i love* that somebody chose the second status, rather one about the missing phone/laptop, to suggest setting up a donation page for replacements.


*even though i probably shouldn't and will go to hell for it.

 

[DaveCinzano]

Spent all afternoon in Islington police station waiting to recover my rucksack

"...And definitely not to to sign my latest CI reports..."

/cynical

 

[rekil]

@PennyRed still there? I'm about to sound check at the Roundhouse. Fancy a coffee?

@billybragg yes!

Over at the processing station, sub-level three, under the main cooling towers. Looks like a god damn Libdem branch meeting.

 

[ViolentPanda]

What, you mean she might have to desperately cobble together some piece of 'teenage diary'-style crap involving excessive hyperbole, desperate attempts to sound like a committed 'activist', a few buzzwords and bits of political jargon that sound great in her head but she doesn't really understand, throw in a couple of suitably-bowdlerised quotes ripped off from interviews done by other hacks and then successfully string all this garbage round some entirely fictional event that happened to her at exactly the right moment, leaving exactly enough time to make another pisspoor effort at stringing 1500 words together..?

Well, I hope she can adjust to this entirely new experience.

An experience known to its afficionados as "doing a Hari".

 

[DaveCinzano]

An experience known to its afficionados as "doing a Hari".

And when it's all thrown together at the last minute to meet a deadline, it's a 'Hurry Up, Hari' (AKA a 'Sham 69k').

 

[ViolentPanda]

And when it's all thrown together at the last minute to meet a deadline, it's a 'Hurry Up, Hari' (AKA a 'Sham 69k').

That's more like the Fleet Street I worked in.

"we're goin' dahn the pub!!"

 

[revol68]

Came across this gem.

I still think I fancy her a wee bit, I know it's wrong, I'm like one of those desperately lonely middle age women who write to convicted murderers and rapists, it's like I lack all self esteem and need validation from the smartest girl at a very smart school.

oh the shame...

 

[Riklet]

she could've made more of his "i came from the bottom" line. ...no, not like that!

starkey might be an odious ratbag in various ways but he's quite succinct there..