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

[Louis MacNeice]

Took me a second

Didn't take Oswald that long.

Cheers - Louis MacNeice

 

[CharlieChaplin]

George Carl was funny...Oswald Mosely wasn't; so for the time being fool it is.

Louis MacNeice

Is it absolutely necessary for you to sign your name after every post?

Oswald Mosley

 

[DaveCinzano]

It's something of a tradition.

Dave

 

[rekil]

We are all a little bit Louis MacNeice.

Cheers - Louis MacNeice

 

[DaveCinzano]

We are all a little bit Louis MacNeice.

Cheers - Louis MacNeice

Better that than Louis Mountbatten

 

[rekil]

Better that than Louis Mountbatten

One from the playground.

How did they know that Mountbatten was washing his hair when he got blown up?

They found his head and shoulders on the beach!

(aware of the inaccuracy yes)

 

[Firky]

Didn't take Oswald that long.

Cheers - Louis MacNeice

*badtoomtish*

I am giving Oswald the benefit of the doubt that he chose a stupid and deliberately provocative username because he didn't think of the repercussions and associations of such a name (or maybe didnt care). I haven't seen him post anything that would raise my alarm bells but I have only come across him on this thread asking if LP would be significant if she wasn't an attractive woman.

 

[DaveCinzano]

One from the playground.

As Herr Battenberg himself was wont to say

 

[DotCommunist]

It's not implied that it's an expensive restaurant is it, though? Just that he orders "the most expensive state on the menu". Could be anywhere.

its stated as 'on the outskirts of luton'

presumably because he's at too much risk of a slap in central

but steakhouse on the outskirts of town suggests a toby/hungry horse/ beefeater or similar family friendly carvery. So thats no more than 15-20 quid plus 3 quid for the cheese skins and a couple of pints, so 25 quid maximum. On vices' expense accnt.

 

[articul8]

Oh god - lauriepenny is on 10 O Clock News tonight - debating with Christine Hamilton. The kind of TV that makes you want to poke your own eyeballs out

 

[ViolentPanda]

There should be less public school educated people in the media and in politics.

Fewer.

 

[cesare]

Oh god - laurie penny is on 10 O Clock News tonight - debating with Christine Hamilton. The kind of TV that makes you want to poke your own eyeballs out

Why are you tagging her in?

 

[Favelado]

Fewer.

"Less" is now acceptable with plurals according to grammar bibles like Swan, so best not pulling people up on it anymore. English has changed, it's just you haven't.

 

[ViolentPanda]

"Less" is now acceptable with plurals according to grammar bibles like Swan, so best not pulling people up on it anymore. English has changed, it's just you haven't.

It's not acceptable to me.

 

[treelover]

Oh god - lauriepenny is on 10 O Clock News tonight - debating with Christine Hamilton. The kind of TV that makes you want to poke your own eyeballs out

debating what?

 

[articul8]

debating what?

Feminism or strong women or summat

 

[Firky]

Why are you tagging her in?

Yeah, I'd hazard a guess she knows

 

[Firky]

Feminism or strong women or summat

Nicola Adans is pretty strong.

 

[cesare]

Nicola Adans is pretty strong.

So was Eva Braun /godwins

 

[muscovyduck]

Faboulous comment from Daid Allen Green on this blog post about Laurie Penny:

Gosh.
This blogpost is so turgid as to render it unreadable.
I wondered what the fuss was about regarding my NS colleague Laurie. I have now tried to read this post twice, and I do not have a clue what much of it means.
Whatever else you contend about Laurie, she certainly writes a lot better than you.
And there’s a third part? Dear god.

Comment by David Allen Green — February 10, 2011 @ 6:16 pm

Followed by:

@Nic
Just seen your comment. Am from working class background, not an aristo.
And I am certainly not a Keynesian, or a particular fan of Toynbee, or even an uncritical fan of Laurie

Comment by David Allen Green — April 17, 2012 @ 1:01 pm

Further to my comment above, I apologise for the rudeness. I did find the post difficult to follow, but there was a more graceful way for me to say so.
Sorry, Sophie.

Comment by David Allen Green — April 17, 2012 @ 2:01 pm

I propose the New Statesman Comment Box Bingo. Or drinking game. Although alcohol and comment boxes don't go well together.

 

[Balbi]

Louise Mensch just walloped Laurie

http://unfashionista.com/2013/05/29/reality-based-feminism/

 

[DotCommunist]

American feminism gets organised. It sees where power lies, and it mobilises to achieve it. It gets its candidates elected. Feminism here is about running for office, founding a company, becoming COO of Facebook or Yahoo. It is power feminism that realises that actual empowerment for women means getting more money, since money and liberty often equate, and being able to legislate or influence.

great

 

[butchersapron]

Louise Mensch just walloped Laurie

http://unfashionista.com/2013/05/29/reality-based-feminism/

The picture at the top is of me at school aged 14. Big glasses, nerdy, feminist, ambitious, idolising Thatcher, and determined to be famous, to be an author, and to be rich. I was at private school my parents couldn’t really afford because I bust my ass and won a 100% academic scholarship.

She was born on 28 June 1971 in London, England, the daughter of Nicholas Wilfrid and Daphne Margaret Bagshawe (née Triggs).[3] Her father comes from a family of Roman Catholic gentry;[4] his grandfather was the marine artist Joseph Richard Bagshawe, who was himself grandson of one of the 19th century's most renowned marine artists Clarkson Stanfield,[5] and a nephew of Edward Gilpin Bagshawe, Roman Catholic Bishop of Nottingham. Her paternal grandmother Mary Frideswide Bagshawe was the daughter of Charles Robertson, a stockbroker and benefactor of St Philip's Priory, Begbroke and one of the co-founders of Westminster Cathedral.[6] She is the sister of Tilly Bagshawe, a freelance journalist and author, and also has a younger sister Alice and a brother, James.[7]

 

[FridgeMagnet]

I got a scholarship.

 

[Buckaroo]

She bust her ass.

 

[Firky]

Louise Mensch, 43, never imagined she would find herself enmeshed in a world of poverty.

 

[Brixton Hatter]

Louise Mensch, 43, never imagined she would find herself enmeshed in a world of poverty.

Forced to leave her lucrative career as a wri'er and slum it as an MP for an impoverished town in Northamptonshire.

 

[Balbi]

Forced to leave her lucrative career as a wri'er and slum it as an MP for an impoverished town in Northamptonshire.

*tries to get defensive about Corby and Northants*



*fails*

 

[Brixton Hatter]

I've got mates in Corby. Decent new football ground. Large Wetherspoons.

 

[The Pale King]

I've got mates in Corby. Decent new football ground. Large Wetherspoons.

Aren't all Wetherspoons large?