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

[framed]

She's just ruined a perfectly good graffiti wall with her infantile scribblings...

Does spraying cliched symbols on to a bit of paper and then trying to stick it to a wall still count as 'graffiti art'?

 

[rekil]

Maybe she was trying to make a "stencil". Fuck knows what kind of shit she filled them with.

 

[chilango]

Clearly Crabapple's talents haven't rubbed off on her.

 

[DaveCinzano]

Some of clare solomon's loudhailers.

Stereosolomonic

 

[Mr.Bishie]

Solomoronic

 

[Delroy Booth]

Victory to Delroy who appears to have kicked off a twitter shitquake of guardian hack whinging. Even Glinner has waded in. Fantastic.

I had a very dull exchange of emails with Helen Lewis which ended with her calling me out on my privilige...

I love it when someone who earns more in a fortnight than I do in a year calls me out on my privilige.

 

[frogwoman]

wtf why were you privileged? compared to her that is

 

[Delroy Booth]

wtf why were you privileged?

Because I disagreed with her presumably.

 

[rekil]

I had a very dull exchange of emails with Helen Lewis which ended with her calling me out on my privilige...

I love it when someone who earns more in a fortnight than I do in a year calls me out on my privilige.

I see she's a founder of "Booze ‘n’ Schmooze", a "free monthly networking event for young journalists, PRs, other media workers (and now marketing folk)"

One assumes that it's not a Huddersfield thing.

Some of the most intriguing whinges.

their politics are secondary to misanthropy and just not being very nice

I don't think "the left" or "liberals" are nasty, just this self-appointed group.

I'll be a bit more specific. The sanctimonious left on Twitter are The Worst

They are viscerally, repeatedly, utterly unpleasant in a totally counter-productive way

That's the worst of several, but seriously. These guys are beneath contempt, and people should say so.

The right attack the left and centre-left. The left attack the centre-left. Bad tactics?

It's really no wonder the right are in basically every position of power, is it?

 

[Delroy Booth]

there is no "they" this is all complete imagination. ffs someone who runs a "free monthly networking event for young journalists, PRs, other media workers (and now marketing folk)" (and a vegan crunk night too) accusing a totally dispirate group of people who don't know each other of being in a clique. It's beyond parody.

Owen Jones isn't anything like as bad as the rest of 'em tbh

 

[Delroy Booth]

just not being very nice

nasty liberal

The left on Twitter are The Worst

unpleasant. beneath contempt

 

[frogwoman]

Is she that one who was complaining about people being bullied for scabbing?

 

[Bakunin]

there is no "they" this is all complete imagination. ffs someone who runs a "free monthly networking event for young journalists, PRs, other media workers (and now marketing folk)" (and a vegan crunk night too) accusing a totally dispirate group of people who don't know each other of being in a clique. It's beyond parody.

Owen Jones isn't anything like as bad as the rest of 'em tbh

They even have their own anthem...

 

[Delroy Booth]

Is she that one who was complaining about people being bullied for scabbing?

Nah that's Lisa Ansell she's just a bit of a marginal crank* and a bit paranoid, i managed to straighten that out amicably in the end.

* A label I'm probably far more suited for, in all honesty. It's my birthday today and look what I'm doing ffs

 

[gawkrodger]

The sunday sport for richer people.

Docos? You mean a) horrible pointless wallowing in look how shit these people are or b) look i'm pissed up abroad?

magazine is utter shite. Their online side has had some good bits - eg Their Tattoo Age docos and Epicly Latered.

Have a couple of actually vaguely interesting young journos who do the odd thing here and there

 

[Frances Lengel]

there is no "they" this is all complete imagination. ffs someone who runs a "free monthly networking event for young journalists, PRs, other media workers (and now marketing folk)" (and a vegan crunk night too) accusing a totally dispirate group of people who don't know each other of being in a clique. It's beyond parody.

Owen Jones isn't anything like as bad as the rest of 'em tbh

Owen Jones is an ok guy - His heart's in the right place.

In a battle of the Owens though, Hatherley beats Jones just as surely as rock beats scissors.

 

[The39thStep]

Owen Jones is an ok guy - His heart's in the right place.

In a battle of the Owens though, Hatherley beats Jones just as surely as rock beats scissors.

In the Labour Party?

 

[ViolentPanda]

In the Labour Party?

In Frances' camphorwood keepsake box.

 

[Treacle Toes]

Sick and tired: the coalition’s war on the disabled and destitute

Being sick and tired is no reason not to keep fighting - a growing number of people are refusing to accept this new, cruel reality.

http://www.newstatesman.com/politics/2012/11/sick-and-tired-coalitions-war-disabled-and-destitute

 

[Captain Hurrah]

Another ar'icle.

 

[The39thStep]

It's difficult to stay calm about this. I'm finding it difficult, as someone who has been writing and campaigning about the attack on welfare for four years and more, since I was a caregiver with a severely disabled boyfriend who went through the process of prostrating himself for incapacity benefits that came too late or not at all.

Not sure if there is anything this woman hasn't managed to cram in in her career.

 

[JimW]

She misheard the lad, he actually castrated himself for the benefit of an incapacity to have conjugal relations with our Laurie.

 

[DaveCinzano]

Not sure if there is anything this woman hasn't managed to cram in in her career.

Doesn't like to talk about it - just giving back to the little people

 

[Captain Hurrah]

She used to write (wri'e?) about it on her blog back in 2009, when she was living in 'poverty.'

 

[The39thStep]

She used to write (wri'e?) about it on her blog back in 2009, when she was living in 'poverty.'

have you really been reading her since 2009?

 

[ViolentPanda]

She used to write (wri'e?) about it on her blog back in 2009, when she was living in 'poverty.'

I thought she might have been talking about Lezard. He's probably impotent from all the booze, and that might count as a disability to Laura.

 

[Captain Hurrah]

have you really been reading her since 2009?

A few times. I think she was pro-Labour back then. Before becoming a revolutionary.

 

[butchersapron]

Oh yes, this reminds me of her homeless period - living in warehouses on a tenner week

 

[Bakunin]

A few times. I think she was pro-Labour back then. Before becoming a revolutionary.

Labour, Lib Dems, Anarchist, protest journalist and managing to find all of these contradictory titles useful for self-promoting careerism.

Is there any part of the political spectrum that hasn't been graced with Her majesty's presence on her Tragical Misery Tour?

 

[articul8]

kebab bum finger is on newsnight - talking about tax avoidance