RCP/Spiked/IoI
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DaveCinzano
WATCH OUT, GEORGE, HE'S GOT A SCREWDRIVER!
My personal experience is that she does not natter with you, she actually just harangues you in a mean-spirited and bullying way.
billy_bob
Air of bewilderment model's own
Well, exactly. I assume putting the world to rights in the pub with Claire Fox means nodding mutely while she does just that. She might permit occasional brief, timed forays into what's happening in the world of football, I guess, just to give the impression that she's of the people.
DaveCinzano
WATCH OUT, GEORGE, HE'S GOT A SCREWDRIVER!
Who could have predicted, etc
Fozzie Bear
Well-Known Member
Partner: Who are Spiked?
Me: [as quick an explanation as I could manage].
Her: WTF.
Me: Yeah. Er why do you ask?
Her: Because I just read two articles from them on the killing of Sarah Everard and they seem like complete cunts.
Me: [as quick an explanation as I could manage].
Her: WTF.
Me: Yeah. Er why do you ask?
Her: Because I just read two articles from them on the killing of Sarah Everard and they seem like complete cunts.
I caught the start of the Moral Maze the other day, and was surprised there was no former RCP panel member as they're contractually obliged to supply. Then I idly googled who this cunt 'comedian' Andrew Doyle was, and all was right with the world again.
this is an issue. it's extremely difficult to do this concisely.
DaveCinzano
WATCH OUT, GEORGE, HE'S GOT A SCREWDRIVER!
The39thStep
Urban critical thinker
This town ain’t big enough for the both of us
hitmouse
so defeated, thinks it's funny
I dunno, Fozzie's partner seems to have managed quite a concise and accurate summation there?
DaveCinzano
WATCH OUT, GEORGE, HE'S GOT A SCREWDRIVER!
I look forward to Contessa di Fox, Jonathan Pie's understudy, Forty Winks Furedi and Brenda No-Kneel all positing fascinating explanations on why KILL THE BILL is the wrong thing to be organising around, and completely different to when they were organising around KILL THE BILL.
planetgeli
There's no future in England's dreaming
Fox will do it as part of a double bill with 'why the House of Lords is a different entity now'
flypanam
Eat crisps
Andrew Doyle getting his time in the shade again, this time on the Inside Politics podcast from the Irish Times Inside Politics - Is free speech under threat? taking about Free Speech which is pretty easy thing to do if you're one of the GB NEWS anchors or stars. Always interesting that these spike lot are never introduced as such. Instead they get a free reign to introduce themselves as 'struggling oxford student...blah blah blah teacher...moved to London to move in with a wealthy old woman who was my patron' but never mention Uncle Frank.
Anyway armchair interview arguing that universities (and I suppose Arts and Social sciences) are an existential threat to billionaries right to do anything they want.*
*I listened to it at 2am fell asleep 10 minutes in.
Anyway armchair interview arguing that universities (and I suppose Arts and Social sciences) are an existential threat to billionaries right to do anything they want.*
*I listened to it at 2am fell asleep 10 minutes in.
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Jeff Robinson
Marxist-Lentilist: Jackboots and Jackfruit
Report today from Commission on Race and Ethnic Disparities denies institutional racism in Britain. The commission was set up by Munira Mirza, a former RCPer:
Race report: 'UK not deliberately rigged against ethnic minorities'
But one racial equality organisation says it feels "deeply, massively let down" and the government has lost trust.
www.bbc.co.uk
Jeff Robinson
Marxist-Lentilist: Jackboots and Jackfruit
Over half the commissioners who produced the report are Order of the British Empire.
19force8
For the avoidance of faith
A new breed of columnist for SP!KED?
www.spiked-online.com
The real divide is class, not ‘generations’
Talk of lucky Boomers and put-upon Millennials is the product of a middle-class bubble.
www.spiked-online.com
marty21
One on one? You're crazy.
A very reasonable reaction .
The39thStep
Urban critical thinker
She'll write for just about anyone tbh , RT. The Guardian etc .Dont think she gets paid?A new breed of columnist for SP!KED?
The real divide is class, not ‘generations’
Talk of lucky Boomers and put-upon Millennials is the product of a middle-class bubble.
nogojones
spelling is overrated
Class War, RT, then spiked. There's a trajectory there for sure.A new breed of columnist for SP!KED?
The real divide is class, not ‘generations’
Talk of lucky Boomers and put-upon Millennials is the product of a middle-class bubble.
Her doing stuff for RT didn't feel right, but Spiked?! FFS.A new breed of columnist for SP!KED?
The real divide is class, not ‘generations’
Talk of lucky Boomers and put-upon Millennials is the product of a middle-class bubble.
Really don't know how she squares having a mixed race son and writing for a publication that produces stuff like this: The myth of ‘institutional racism’
Must've gone conservative.
Must've gone conservative.
The39thStep
Urban critical thinker
How does she square being pro working class/anti middle class and writing for the Guardian? God knows, perhaps there's a genuine shortage of decent outlets to write for/in. and she will write for anyone. It's what she writes rather than who she writes for thats more important imo. Don't always agree with her politics but she's certainly not gone or going Tory
She may aswell write for Breitbart or the Daily Star if she's gonna do so for the likes of Spiked. Jeezus.
Personally I don't respect someone who will write for anyone. Have some fucking integrity and backbone for fuck sake.
Who else is she gonna write for? The Spectator? The Daily Heil? The Sun?
The39thStep
Urban critical thinker
The only paper I won't read on principle is the Sun because of Hillsborough. I think most people can read a paper and pick and choose the bits they agree with or don't agree with. Who would you suggest she should write for btw?
ska invita
back on the other side
She's long down that path. Reposted shit spiked content more than once. Stopped following her on social media a while back now as it's a car crash
I'm not going to get into it but her book has some dodgey stuff against migrants who moved onto the estate she talks about, being less deserving than the generation of earlier Caribbean migrants she aligns with.
Dont have a copy anymore but it's towards the end.
Not trying to convince anyone with this post but she's off my list after giving her several blies.
I'm not going to get into it but her book has some dodgey stuff against migrants who moved onto the estate she talks about, being less deserving than the generation of earlier Caribbean migrants she aligns with.
Dont have a copy anymore but it's towards the end.
Not trying to convince anyone with this post but she's off my list after giving her several blies.
chilango
Hypothetical Wanker
Like ska invita I stopped following her a while back.
Sadly, it's a well trodden trajectory these days. The disgust at the m/c liberal "left" has led some to embrace increasingly reactionary positions to mark their distinction from the "liberals".
Brexit (and the behaviour of some vocal remainders) really accelerated this. Follow this with a desire not to get drawn into the "m/c side" on the culture wars, the whole "red wall" mythology and so and you have a really toxic environment where it's all to easy to lose sight of stuff.
Sadly, it's a well trodden trajectory these days. The disgust at the m/c liberal "left" has led some to embrace increasingly reactionary positions to mark their distinction from the "liberals".
Brexit (and the behaviour of some vocal remainders) really accelerated this. Follow this with a desire not to get drawn into the "m/c side" on the culture wars, the whole "red wall" mythology and so and you have a really toxic environment where it's all to easy to lose sight of stuff.
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