Do you read Private Eye?
- Thread starter Balbi
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Yep belboid your the fastest thinker around....Really shown how clever you are on this thread.
Who do you mean by the establishment? And how do they control Private Eye?
No, I have a limited span on this Earth and better things to do with several weeks of it
Urbanblues
Was that it, life?
What's so surprising? He comes across as a Little Englander reactionary shitbag.
Wonder if he'll sue me?
ViolentPanda
Hardly getting over it.
Same claim was made about Kincora, which turned out to actually be more of a Prod "old boy network" thing than a conspiracy to cover up the involvement of "top politicians".
ViolentPanda
Hardly getting over it.
"Scallywag" didn't break the Kincora story. It had been "out in the wild" for over 15 years before "Scallywag" picked it up, you tart. Colin Wallace (who worked for British army intelligence at Lisburn Barracks) broke it, in the mid 1970s, to (IIRC) an Ulster daily paper, as well, a few years later, as Robin Ramsay's "Lobster" and to Paul Foot.
Interestingly, one of Wallace's concerns (besides the fact that the RUC were ignoring child molesting because it involved felloe Prods) was that a criminal situation that involved some Proddie paramilitary groups and assorted sash-wearers was being considered by British intelligence as a mechanism through which to smear Ulster politicians who didn't tow the British line. Fling enough mud and it will stick, whether you're innocent or not.
Where to start eh? Neither i or Scallywag claimed they had broken the story.
But what they did was highlight a particular part of the scandal and publish it when others were probably too scared.
As for me being a Tart!!!! I try my best.
ViolentPanda
Hardly getting over it.
Why would any media outlet be "too scared" to re-publish a story that had passed without a writ way back in the mid and late 1970s, balders? All "Scallywag" ever wrote on Kincora was their take on events, pushing a line ("top politicians" being involved) that was also aired back in the mid and late 1970s.
I think they were more specific about who though. At least thats how i remember it.
Did you read the articles in Scallywag? I dont remember reading anywhere else the link between procuring kids from kincora and the treasurer of the Tory party, Did you read it somewhere else?
belboid
Exasperated, not angry.
people claimed all sorts were involved in Kincora, including Heath and Mountbatten! They are rather lacking in supporting evidence tho. Did Scallywag provide any? preferably of a better quality than their evidence for Diana being murdered.
I don't know, I never read it (from what I know of it it had an incredibly scattergun approach that would usually mean it came out with a lot of shite, and a few good hits), but you haven't done a very good job at defending it, or showing why it did anything really worthwhile.
It is true that PE is far less likely to publish some of the stories they would have in the past, fear of libel has weakened it to an extent. But that hardly makes it 'establishment'
I don't know, I never read it (from what I know of it it had an incredibly scattergun approach that would usually mean it came out with a lot of shite, and a few good hits), but you haven't done a very good job at defending it, or showing why it did anything really worthwhile.
It is true that PE is far less likely to publish some of the stories they would have in the past, fear of libel has weakened it to an extent. But that hardly makes it 'establishment'
danny la rouge
More like *fanny* la rouge!
No, them all being Oxbridge ex-public schoolboys does.
danny la rouge
More like *fanny* la rouge!
I'm very old. I still think of it like this.
Surely all papers are owned by "establishment" interests though, unless you restrict your reading to badly photocopied anarchist newsletters handed out on street corners by bored looking youth and slightly suspicious looking beardy men
What a cretin.
danny la rouge
More like *fanny* la rouge!
Yes.
belboid
Exasperated, not angry.
aah, you're ignoring the previous post I see. i wonder why.
Is it because you'd have to admit that you never even read Scallywag, which is why you can hardly remember anything about it?
belboid
Exasperated, not angry.
It's dropped the homophobia now. Most of it anyway...
danny la rouge
More like *fanny* la rouge!
Funny as Hislop is on HIGNFY, I have trouble seeing the CofE-loving, Baden-Powell admiring posho as anything other than deeply reactionary.
belboid
Exasperated, not angry.
These last two series of HIGNFY have been good for showing just what a reactionary prick he is. Fortunately that doesn't stop the magazine from publishing a lot of good stuff - and for those of us with the ability to read critically, it's quite easy to spot the bollocks and the bullshit that's there too.
You are such a clown.
I read every copy of Scallywag you said you read none.... Yet you feel qualified to tell me that i never read Scallywag on what basis?
Oooooh belboid you are so clever.......Go on give us some more of your awe inspiring analysis of the establishment.......
agricola
a genuine importer of owls
Which is not the damning indictment it once was, given the current infestation of "progressives".
belboid
Exasperated, not angry.
as soon as you respond to any of the actual points raised with anything other than pathetic personal insults.
i wont be holding my breath,
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