I don't understand this post.
Toby Young enjoys general "being a player"/chauvinism.
"I can pinpoint the exact moment I changed my mind about Rod Liddle. It was at the Portsmouth Guild Hall while waiting to appear as a panelist on Question Time in 2004. One of the female producers told me that Liddle had been a panelist the previous week and had turned up with Alicia Monckton, a colleague of his on the Spectator. At 44, he was exactly twice her age. Instead of making small talk with his fellow guests – Peter Hain, Jenny Tonge, Tim Yeo – he started making out with Alicia on the green room sofa. This, in spite of the fact that he was married with two children at the time. "Peter Hain was quite shocked," said the bluestocking producer. "Rod wasn't holding anything back. At one point, he started licking Alicia's face."
Up until then, I'd thought of him as a typically chippy Guardianista. Anyone who disapproved of the Countryside Alliance was ipso facto an enemy of freedom and I had no sympathy when he was sacked from his job as editor of the Today programme in 2002. On the face of it, this behaviour should have confirmed my worst suspicions. Here was a former Labour Party speech writer, happy to look down on Conservatives from what he considered the moral high ground, being revealed as a lecherous love rat. Presumably, this was precisely the kind of behaviour that drove his now ex-wife, Rachel Royce, to have ten sacks of manure delivered to the Spectator's offices when she learned of the affair.
But there's something irresistible about the sheer boldness of such an act - a devil-may-care effrontery that transforms him from a common-or-garden adulterer into a legendary cad. He isn't just another Robin Cook, caught having it off with his secretary. On the contrary, he's a Left-wing Alan Clark. After that, I've found it impossible to dislike him."
Alan Clark was a notorious sexist.
"Left-wing Twitterati have worked themselves up into a state of high dudgeon this morning over the Sun's front page picture of Reeva Steenkamp, the dead girlfriend of Oscar Pistorius. "I really hope every member of the Shadow Cabinet thinks twice before writing for the Sun after that front page," tweeted John Prescott. The root of the objection, as far as I can tell, is that it was disrespectful of the Sun to publish a picture of Steenkamp in a bikini. "Try to imagine a man dying and the media running four billion pictures of them in swimwear," tweeted Helen Lewis, a columnist for the New Statesman. In fact, as Guido Fawkes pointed out, we don't need to try and "imagine" this because the Daily Mail published a picture of Alexander Dale Oen, a Norwegian Olympic swimmer, in his swimwear when he died last year. What Helen Lewis seems to be overlooking is that Reeva Steenkamp was, among other things, a swimwear model. Not really that sexist after all, then. Other tweeters have accused the Sun of glorifying domestic violence. That word was actually used by Chris Bryant, the Labour MP for the Rhondda (and no stranger himself to appearing in the press in his underwear). "This is a simply despicable front page," he tweeted. "It glories in domestic violence. @rupertmurdoch apologise." Later, he went even further and claimed that women will die as a result of the Sun's front page. "In the UK two women get killed every week in domestic violence incidents," he tweeted. "This style of journalism helps it continue." But hang on, Chris. Aren't you being just a teensy weensy bit tabloid yourself here? We don't know that Reeva Steenkamp was a victim of domestic violence. Aren't you prejudging the outcome of Oscar Pistorius's trial? Innocent until proven guilty and all that."
Toby Young is an idiot because South Africa doesn't even juries, hence what someone in Britain tweets makes zero difference to the trial. It's hard to see him as anything other than sexist. The worst part is Education Mnister
Michael Gove is a strong supporter/backer of him. Why are state resources being handed over to form schools on his managerial ideas?
Guilty.
