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

[Spanky Longhorn]

The breath taking gall of her

Laurie Penny ‏@PennyRed
I believe that @OwenJones84 is a feminist ally who has had some problems expressing himself lately. I'm taking him for tea. Tea fixes things

 

[Brixton Hatter]

She only read the headline, not the whole article. Last time she took a quick glance at something, she assumed the IWCA was fash.

 

[cesare]

The breath taking gall of her

Laurie Penny ‏@PennyRed
I believe that @OwenJones84 is a feminist ally who has had some problems expressing himself lately. I'm taking him for tea. Tea fixes things

He'll be gutted

 

[Bakunin]

She only read the headline, not the whole article. Last time she took a quick glance at something, she assumed the IWCA was fash.

Are English comprehension leaves a little to be desired in someone claiming to be a serious journalist, IMHO.

 

[weepiper]

The breath taking gall of her

Laurie Penny ‏@PennyRed
I believe that @OwenJones84 is a feminist ally who has had some problems expressing himself lately. I'm taking him for tea. Tea fixes things

perhaps if she fucking listened to what people were saying...

 

[mrs quoad]

Way back last year (back before I posted 'that' cartoon) she was wittering on about how someone called her a pixie. She took a bit of an objection to it and vented it all out on twitter. Then one her ex Oxford pals said something like, "but Laurie, we'd all call you Pixie at Uni, it was your nickname?".

I don't dislike my magic anarcho-feminist pixie voice. YOU CAN HAVE THREE WISHES AS LONG AS THEY ARE ALL #FULLCOMMUNISM.



Not sure how authentic that is

 

[Sue]

The breath taking gall of her

Laurie Penny ‏@PennyRed
I believe that @OwenJones84 is a feminist ally who has had some problems expressing himself lately. I'm taking him for tea. Tea fixes things

 

[equationgirl]

She only read the headline, not the whole article. Last time she took a quick glance at something, she assumed the IWCA was fash.

I was hoping she had learnt from her mistake in that episode. Evidently not.

 

[Firky]

The breath taking gall of her

Laurie Penny ‏@PennyRed
I believe that @OwenJones84 is a feminist ally who has had some problems expressing himself lately. I'm taking him for tea. Tea fixes things

That's exactly the thing I'd say if I was on a troll.

 

[Delroy Booth]

who has had some problems expressing himself

That's sinister. Think about what she's saying there, it's orwellian.

 

[Spanky Longhorn]

who has had some problems expressing himself

That's sinister. Think about what she's saying there, it's orwellian.

You need to chill out mate you've been taking twitter a bit seriously today

 

[Bakunin]

The breath taking gall of her

Laurie Penny ‏@PennyRed
I believe that @OwenJones84 is a feminist ally who has had some problems expressing himself lately. I'm taking him for tea. Tea fixes things

I f he's having problems then isn't he suffering enough already?

 

[Spanky Longhorn]

it was either tea with Lawrie or lunch with Ellie-May

 

[chilango]

She's a fucking idiot. Seriously,

The fact that people pay her to write her crap should set alarm bells ringing about just what role she plays...

 

[Delroy Booth]

You need to chill out mate you've been taking twitter a bit seriously today

It's more than just a hobby, it's a calling.

 

[Firky]

You need to chill out mate you've been taking twitter a bit seriously today

I have warned him, but he's so keen!

 

[DotCommunist]

Tea doesn't fix fuck all, coffee and cannabis doesn't fix anything either, its just better

Being patronised by Laura of a cup of wankers brew- some shte earl grey or something- isn't going to fix even a broken kinder egg toy

 

[Firky]

So @jamiekilstein is playing all this week at the Soho theatre. If you want your faith in feminist men restored, you should go. #comedy

Jamiekilstein is Followed by Jonnie Marbles and mollycrabapple.

Oh, I wonder if that is coincidental? No other 'lefty' I follow seems to have heard of him. How odd.

 

[weepiper]

Tea doesn't fix fuck all, coffee and cannabis doesn't fix anything either, its just better

Being patronised by Laura of a cup of wankers brew- some shte earl grey or something- isn't going to fix even a broken kinder egg toy

Middle class bollocks anyway. Everyone knows that what you do when you want to sort out a difference of opinion is get pissed together

 

[DotCommunist]

Middle class bollocks anyway. Everyone knows that what you do when you want to sort out a difference of opinion is get pissed together

traditionally followed by a fight and/or a crap shag

 

[Sue]

traditionally followed by a fight and/or a crap shag

Bag of chips surely?

 

[weepiper]

Bag of chips surely?

not mutually exclusive

 

[Sue]

not mutually exclusive

Oh. Maybe that's where I've been going wrong all these years...

 

[Bakunin]

Tea doesn't fix fuck all, coffee and cannabis doesn't fix anything either, its just better

Being patronised by Laura of a cup of wankers brew- some shte earl grey or something- isn't going to fix even a broken kinder egg toy

She knew her last public speech was going badly when the usherette came round at the interval with a tray of cyanide capsules.

 

[Frances Lengel]

Also - 'reasonably urgent'? No. Something is either urgent or not. 'Reasonably pressing' perhaps, or 'becoming urgent', but not a combination of the two.

Poor English from someone who writes for a living does rankle.

 

[equationgirl]

Poor English from someone who writes for a living does rankle.

Exactly.

 

[Bakunin]

traditionally followed by a fight and/or a crap shag

Bag of chips surely?

not mutually exclusive

 

[frogwoman]

I think my cat would have a lot to say about intersectionality in professional and public spheres and would have some very important insights into the state of radical politics today.

 

[Balbi]

That Jones article is basically the 'Galloway a huge pustule ridden fuckknuckle, but the boy gives good rhetoric' argument isn't it?

Edit - oh, it's more than that. It's sort of, kind of aimed at the identity politics and lingustic gymnastics squad. The right have better, simpler narratives because their narratives tend not to include the margins - just a big rolling snowball of white, middle class comfort. The left need to come up with equally simple stories but include everyone.

The problem with simple stories is that it relies on established tropes - scroungers, immigrants etc. And utlising simple tropes can get you the support of Burchill if you're not careful.

 

[BigTom]

Something that stuck out for me in that article was he thought people in the audience of question time are "non-politicos". Maybe they're not quite from the westminster village but it's telling about how small his world is that he thinks non-politicos would apply for tickets to be in the question time audience.