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

[temper_tantrum]

Has she said anything about Johann Hari yet? Sniping from various directions about 'young and recently-high-profile journalists' who were given a leg-up by Hari suddenly being silent - sounds rather as though they mean LP, perhaps?

 

[butchersapron]

Very little beyond that the original expose was verging on homophobia. Really.

 

[nino_savatte]

I see the Young Britons' Foundation website is listing Laurie Penny on its homepage for some reason. Maybe there's something she's not telling us?

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[Kid_Eternity]

That is er odd to say the least...

 

[SpineyNorman]

For trolling. I'm sure George Monbiot used to be linked from that.

 

[Idris2002]

Or one of these 'Young Britons' has a crush on Ms. Penny, for which he is 'ragged' mercilessly by the other 'chaps'.

 

[sihhi]

I don't mean to advocate casual sex, polyamory, housing collectives and late nights drinking bad vodka with bisexual activists as alternatives that necessarily work for everyone, though they've always done so for me.

http://www.newstatesman.com/blogs/laurie-penny/2011/09/true-love-idea-cruel-life

Is a housing collective a housing co-op or a flatshare?

 

[belboid]

shit rip off of a hunter s thompson quote either way

 

[nino_savatte]

Or one of these 'Young Britons' has a crush on Ms. Penny, for which he is 'ragged' mercilessly by the other 'chaps'.

Yah. Fancy a Pimms?

 

[frogwoman]

For trolling. I'm sure George Monbiot used to be linked from that.

16 months in prison for you

 

[Kid_Eternity]

http://www.newstatesman.com/blogs/laurie-penny/2011/09/true-love-idea-cruel-life

Is a housing collective a housing co-op or a flatshare?

Isn't it a euphemism for group sex?

 

[Nigel]

Mate, if you're descended from east Europeans Jews, "the pogroms" mean only one thing - Tsarist-era licenced murder and theft. If what she meant was "during Nazism" she should say that.

Wasn't there rumours of "pogroms" in Stalinist Russia?
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Stalins-Secret-Pogrom-Inquisition-Anti-fascist/dp/0300084862#_

 

[rekil]

Hey normals, check this out. Laurie's flatmate is a 48 year old guardian journo. Crazy.

Bollocks.

Nick refers to this place as "the Hovel", but it's a palace compared with some of the places I've lived, by virtue of having an intact ceiling and no one's drug-dealer boyfriend sleeping on the sofa.

 

[temper_tantrum]

'Normal people' - utter scorn. Oh dear, I'm getting a bit butchersapron about it all ...

 

[stethoscope]

I've just seen this drivel in a colleagues paper.

I can't even get beyond the first sentence of Penny's without it winding me up...

When I told my friends I was leaving inner-city proto-bohemia and moving in
...

 

[Orang Utan]

i like what she's done with her hair

 

[butchersapron]

Such desperation. Such harin-ness

 

[butchersapron]

How long till polly gets a squatter?

 

[temper_tantrum]

I've resisted knowing too much about this one so far, but I couldn't help checking her background this time.
According to Wikipedia, 'She then completed her NCTJ journalism training certificate in London.[citation needed]
Anyone got any idea if and where she did her NCTJ then?

 

[butchersapron]

"this one"? When did you get yours?

 

[Kid_Eternity]

I don't get that piece, why was it considered worthwhile publishing in a paper?

 

[butchersapron]

Which one K_e?

 

[killer b]

I don't get that piece, why was it considered worthwhile publishing in a paper?

you noticed which paper published it, no?

 

[Spanky Longhorn]

Hey normals, check this out. Laurie's flatmate is a 48 year old guardian journo. Crazy.

Bollocks.

Jesus she actually looks really cute there

 

[butchersapron]

She looks like a thin you.

 

[Kid_Eternity]

Which one K_e?

Her and the flatmate one...to be clear, I get how lifestyle pieces generally are but this is thin for even that to say the least...puzzling stuff...almost as if someone is doing her a favour by giving some favourable coverage than anything...

 

[Orang Utan]

i doubt that piece will do her any favours

 

[killer b]

journalists love writing about themselves, and the guardian loves printing it. what's to puzzle over?

 

[Kid_Eternity]

i doubt that piece will do her any favours

Really? Seems fairly harmless really for your theatre loving hampstead luvvie...

 

[Kid_Eternity]

journalists love writing about themselves, and the guardian loves printing it. what's to puzzle over?

Yeah you're probably right...just doesn't seem quite right. My experience of the media, and guardian journos etc tells me there's a bit more to this...