Julie Burchill forced to apologise for twitter comments , and pay out a fat wedge .

[bellaozzydog]

Is the baying mob getting a book deal cancelled not on par with burning books?

REALLY

 

[Pickman's model]

Is the baying mob getting a book deal cancelled not on par with burning books?

no. anyway you forget we burned books in this country after hitler was burned.

 

[Orang Utan]

That’s Phoebe from Friends!

Aye!

 

[JimW]

"preserving religious peace" my arse!

Turn the other cheek?

 

[PaulOK]

Julie Burchill agrees to pay Ash Sarkar 'substantial damages' in libel case

Columnist apologises to journalist, acknowledging social media posts included ‘racist and misogynist’ comments

www.theguardian.com

I know Ash Sarkar gets stick , some may be warranted , and she doles it out too.

How so? Who on the Left gives her stick? I think she is pretty solid politically and I am surprised anyone on the Left would have a go at her. All the Novara crew are good. I enjoy their writings and media appearances. Like Owen Jones, they are an important Left voice.

 

[Orang Utan]

How so? Who on the Left gives her stick? I think she is pretty solid politically and I am surprised anyone on the Left would have a go at her. All the Novara crew are good. I enjoy their writings and media appearances. Like Owen Jones, they are an important Left voice.

 

[marty21]

How so? Who on the Left gives her stick? I think she is pretty solid politically and I am surprised anyone on the Left would have a go at her. All the Novara crew are good. I enjoy their writings and media appearances. Like Owen Jones, they are an important Left voice.

The 'Left' doesn't speak with one voice tbf, I like her , sometimes see her cycling (badly) on Hackney Marshes. She gets most of the abuse from ex NME journos & other right-wingers.

 

[Kevbad the Bad]

And how old was the Blessed Virgin Mary when she got knocked up, without her consent by the Holy Ghost?

Fictional characters can be as old or as young as you want them to be.

 

[Raheem]

Fictional characters can be as old or as young as you want them to be.

Within reason. No-one would ever subscribe to a religion where key figures were claimed to have lived for hundreds of years, would they?

 

[Pickman's model]

Within reason. No-one would ever subscribe to a religion where key figures were claimed to have lived for hundreds of years, would they?

many religions have at their centres characters whose existence is without end.

 

[littlebabyjesus]

Within reason. No-one would ever subscribe to a religion where key figures were claimed to have lived for hundreds of years, would they?

21 When Enoch had lived sixty-five years, he became the father of Methuselah.22 Enoch walked with God after the birth of Methuselah three hundred years, and had other sons and daughters.23 Thus all the days of Enoch were three hundred sixty-five years.24 Enoch walked with God; then he was no more, because God took him.25 When Methuselah had lived one hundred eighty-seven years, he became the father of Lamech.26 Methuselah lived after the birth of Lamech seven hundred eighty-two years, and had other sons and daughters.27 Thus all the days of Methuselah were nine hundred sixty-nine years; and he died.
—Genesis 5:21–27

Tbf it's no more silly than resurrection or talking to angels.

 

[Pickman's model]

Methuselah

yeh methuselah is really key to xianity and judaism

 

[JimW]

Tbf it's no more silly than resurrection or talking to angels.

Well, air quality was significantly better then and there were far fewer traffic accidents.

 

[JimW]

Plus it probably just felt like nine hundred years with no Internet or even telly.

 

[Kevbad the Bad]

Tbf it's no more silly than resurrection or talking to angels.

Talking to angels is no worse than talking to cats. It's when they start talking back that it becomes a cause for concern.

 

[Sue]

Plus it probably just felt like nine hundred years with no Internet or even telly.

Nine hundred years of what Sundays used to be like.

 

[Pickman's model]

Talking to angels is no worse than talking to cats. It's when they start talking back that it becomes a cause for concern.

if your cats are ignoring you then you're doing it wrong

 

[Pickman's model]

Nine hundred years of what Sundays used to be like.

900 years in fucking garden centres.

 

[Edie]

Wow I’ve just read the article in the OP. That Burchill woman is a nasty, racist piece of shit in the Katie Hopkins vein of loudmouths. Why the hell she’s still permitted a newspaper column as a self pronounced Islamist is disgraceful. She needs to stfu.

 

[Sue]

900 years in fucking garden centres.

My dad hated gardening so at least we were spared that...

 

[Kevbad the Bad]

if your cats are ignoring you then you're doing it wrong

It's when the angels stop ignoring me that I get worried.

 

[Pickman's model]

Wow I’ve just read the article in the OP. That Burchill woman is a nasty, racist piece of shit in the Katie Hopkins vein of loudmouths. Why the hell she’s still permitted a newspaper column as a self pronounced Islamist is disgraceful. She needs to stfu.

as she's a self-confessed philosemite i doubt she's an islamist

 

[Edie]

as she's a self-confessed philosemite i doubt she's an islamist

She literally said this

As well as directing her Facebook followers to “wade in on Twitter” against “the Islamists” and “nonces”, she wrote a crude poem about Sarkar that featured a description of “a gender fluid threesome with Marine Le Pen”. She also “liked” posts saying that Sarkar should kill herself and suggesting that she was a victim of female genital mutilation.

Do you know better than her herself?

What’s an philosemite?

 

[killer b]

Why the hell she’s still permitted a newspaper column

She writes for the Telegraph. They're really into racists over there.

 

[PaulOK]

as she's a self-confessed philosemite i doubt she's an islamist

Wasn't she at Lewisham in 1977 with Tony Parsons? Something they have both been dining out on for 40+ years. For the past 30 years she's essentially been trolling the Left. She's got unstuck this time though.

 

[Pickman's model]

She literally said this
Do you know better than her herself?

What’s an philosemite?

your quote suggests jb against rather than for islamists. the 'As well as directing her Facebook followers to “wade in on Twitter” against “the Islamists”' sits ill with your 'jb's an islamist' claim. don't you think?

and a philosemite is someone who loves jews.

 

[Santino]

She literally said this
Do you know better than her herself?

What’s an philosemite?

An Islamist isn't someone who's prejudiced against Muslims (that would be an Islamophobe), it's someone who advocates for Islamic ideology in one form or another.

 

[PaulOK]

and a philosemite is someone who loves jews.

I can imagine her saccharine, syrupy "love letters" to Jews and Israel must be cringy to both Israelis and Jewish people generally.

 

[not-bono-ever]

Shape shifting in order to stay relevant rarely ends well. Always had that potential nasty streak going on. Meh. Guardian readers loved her stuff in the 90s. I didn’t .

 

[tim]

900 years in fucking garden centres.

They got kicked out of the gardening centre for pilfering.