Marina Hyde: saving grace of t'Graun?

[bmd]

Today's column had me in stitches. Anyone else love her writing?

 

[killer b]

I grudgingly enjoy her column occasionally, that's as far as I'll go though.

 

[Orang Utan]

Piers Morgan

 

[Pickman's model]

Tbh what gets me about modern journalism and the guardian in particular is the way they sprinkle their news articles with value judgements - people rightly do things, people come out with baseless conspiracy theories etc. It's so fucking preachy. But some of the columnists are good, and I've a few minutes for mh

 

[killer b]

Piers Morgan

I think it's probably not really ok to judge a woman by someone she banged a couple of decades ago tbf

 

[killer b]

especially when you can instead judge her for being eyewateringly posh and changing her name to conceal it.

 

[Flavour]

especially when you can instead judge her for being eyewateringly posh and changing her name to conceal it.

What's her old name?

 

[fishfinger]

Marina Elizabeth Catherine Dudley-Williams

Hyde is the daughter of Sir Alastair Edgcumbe James Dudley-Williams, 2nd Baronet, and his wife, the former Diana Elizabeth Jane Duncan.[1] Through her father, she is the granddaughter of aviation pioneer and Conservative politician Sir Rolf Dudley-Williams, 1st Baronet. She attended Downe House School, near Newbury in Berkshire,[2] and read English at Christ Church, Oxford.

Marina Hyde - Wikipedia

 

[Pickman's model]

Marina Elizabeth Catherine Dudley-Williams

Dr dudley-williams and Mrs hyde

 

[killer b]

Marina Elizabeth Catherine Dudley-Williams



Marina Hyde - Wikipedia

ah yeah, she was at Down House School with Miranda Hart, who is so posh she's actually related to the queen.

British public life is like that Kevin Bacon game people play with actors. Except the queen is Kevin Bacon, and the degrees of separation are never more than one or two.

 

[mauvais]

Eventually to noone's real surprise even the funny outlier people at the Graun and indeed any ostensibly left of centre publication turn out to be absolute wrongheaded melts and we have already been through at least one such Marina episode although I can't remember what exactly.

My last great hope is Abi Wilkinson but someone will be along soon to put me out of my delusional misery.

 

[littlebabyjesus]

I like her. I also like John Crace.

 

[killer b]

I also like John Crace.

what.

 

[littlebabyjesus]

I knew that would get a reaction.

I think he's funny.

 

[bmd]

especially when you can instead judge her for being eyewateringly posh and changing her name to conceal it.

Not another of the Yaxley-Lennon mob?

 

[killer b]

My last great hope is Abi Wilkinson but someone will be along soon to put me out of my delusional misery.

she's not on the payroll and hasn't written anything for them since 2018, so you're probably safe.

 

[bmd]

ah yeah, she was at Down House School with Miranda Hart, who is so posh she's actually related to the queen.

British public life is like that Kevin Bacon game people play with actors. Except the queen is Kevin Bacon, and the degrees of separation are never more than one or two.

I fucking knew I shouldn't have posted about her.

Actually, that's bollocks, I never even considered that she wasn't worthy. Of whatever. From whoever.

Well I still like her. I'm having one posho and she's it.

 

[mauvais]

she's not on the payroll and hasn't written anything for them since 2018, so you're probably safe.

Fair point. I see her on Twitter these days (when not self-suspended) putting out the odd near-anarchist fuck-the-state structural analysis line that would fit right in here, so more power to her.

 

[killer b]

Fair point. I see her on Twitter these days (when not self-suspended) putting out the odd near-anarchist fuck-the-state structural analysis line that would fit right in here, so more power to her.

I don't think I've ever played the 'who's their dad' game with her though, so I'll have a look now.

 

[FridgeMagnet]

I knew that would get a reaction.

I think he's funny.

He's very occasionally funny, and she isn't, so I can see that as sort of defensible.

 

[bmd]

He's very occasionally funny, and she isn't, so I can see that as sort of defensible.

She is! He always seems to be trying a bit too hard.

 

[killer b]

I don't think I've ever played the 'who's their dad' game with her though, so I'll have a look now.

I'm drawing a blank on this key issue sorry mauvais. Bristol Uni, no details on her school.

 

[mauvais]

I'm drawing a blank on this key issue sorry mauvais. Bristol Uni, no details on her school.

Good good. Ambiguity is enough for now. I do still need someone to interview me when I finally unveil The Worker's Bomb from under the NIP flag and I've had to cross a lot of people - Hadley Freeman several times - off my list already.

 

[Flavour]

Hadley Freeman should never have been on the list, mauvais . She is the worst. Marina Hyde is just a posh dickhead but Hadley Freeman is a really massive knob like omg can you imagine if you had to talk to her like if you got into a car accident and she was the first on the scene to come and help you out and she started asking you dead weird and irrelevant questions and giving you funny looks? no thanks Hadley, just call the ambulance please

 

[hitmouse]

ah yeah, she was at Down House School with Miranda Hart, who is so posh she's actually related to the queen.

OK, this is a great one for the "privileged people misrepresent their etc etc" list:
"Hart is from an aristocratic background, but does not consider herself upper class,[5] stating that her aunt and uncle live in a castle that they cannot afford to run.[7]"

 

[Raheem]

OK, this is a great one for the "privileged people misrepresent their etc etc" list:
"Hart is from an aristocratic background, but does not consider herself upper class,[5] stating that her aunt and uncle live in a castle that they cannot afford to run.[7]"

That might have been intended as humourous, though. Or, to be fair, it might not have been.

 

[mauvais]

Hadley Freeman should never have been on the list, mauvais . She is the worst. Marina Hyde is just a posh dickhead but Hadley Freeman is a really massive knob like omg can you imagine if you had to talk to her like if you got into a car accident and she was the first on the scene to come and help you out and she started asking you dead weird and irrelevant questions and giving you funny looks? no thanks Hadley, just call the ambulance please

I know right but I've worked, like, soooo hard on the vivacity of my 'apocalyptic blackmailer' aesthetic that I really want some basic validation.

 

[Supine]

Is this the latest inverted snobbery club hangout?

Some of her articles are really funny.

 

[killer b]

OK, this is a great one for the "privileged people misrepresent their etc etc" list:
"Hart is from an aristocratic background, but does not consider herself upper class,[5] stating that her aunt and uncle live in a castle that they cannot afford to run.[7]"

I have to stop myself from playing the 'who's their dad' game too often, I don't think it's good for the soul. as you can see.

 

[FridgeMagnet]

She is! He always seems to be trying a bit too hard.

I would say the opposite way round - Hyde is massively laboured and predictable, it's just a question of which Issues she's seen on Twitter are going to be forced into jokes along the way, and you know that if you've been unfortunate enough to be reading Politics Twitter over the last week.