Idris2002
canadian girlfriend
And that's not bleddy surprising, mun.
Urban v's the Commentariat
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And that's not bleddy surprising, mun.
Fozzie Bear
Well-Known Member
Mental Telegraph list of "100 most influential left wingers" by Iain "ASBO" Dale is mental:
100-51 http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/pol...100-most-influential-Left-wingers-100-51.html
50-1 http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/pol...p-100-most-influential-Left-wingers-50-1.html
100-51 http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/pol...100-most-influential-Left-wingers-100-51.html
50-1 http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/pol...p-100-most-influential-Left-wingers-50-1.html
el-ahrairah
forward communism, forward gerbils!
LLETSA not placed again 
DaveCinzano
WATCH OUT, GEORGE, HE'S GOT A SCREWDRIVER!
The long march through the internetzLLETSA not placed again
el-ahrairah
forward communism, forward gerbils!
el-ahrairah
forward communism, forward gerbils!
On fire today, Dave!
DaveCinzano
WATCH OUT, GEORGE, HE'S GOT A SCREWDRIVER!
Too much work to do. Inside I am crying. Send help.
el-ahrairah
forward communism, forward gerbils!
emanymton
A cat politely sat on the flaming gardener.
Or meLLETSA not placed again
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Bernie Gunther
Fundamentalist Druid
So when does Laurie Penny publish her 'I enjoyed having my clit circumcised' blog post?
ViolentPanda
Hardly getting over it.
Half of them are less left-wing than my Tory-voting mum!
DaveCinzano
WATCH OUT, GEORGE, HE'S GOT A SCREWDRIVER!
Malky a close follower of 'teen twitter':
Malcolm Harris @BigMeanInternet
Consensus on teen twitter is that weed is now legal.
5:43 AM - 1 Oct 13
DotCommunist
So many particulars. So many questions.
what experts are these?
DaveCinzano
WATCH OUT, GEORGE, HE'S GOT A SCREWDRIVER!
The Pale King
Well-Known Member
Louise Mensch advocating aggressive tactics for the Conservatives in the coming election campaign:
"And I’d campaign virally"
http://www.newstatesman.com/2013/09/bring-torymakeover
"And I’d campaign virally"
http://www.newstatesman.com/2013/09/bring-torymakeover
Bubonic plague attachment with every other email/flyer?"And I'd campaign virally"
DotCommunist
So many particulars. So many questions.
Louise Mensch advocating aggressive tactics for the Conservatives in the coming election campaign:
"And I’d campaign virally"
http://www.newstatesman.com/2013/09/bring-torymakeover
shes on the Chang again
she did no such thing, was voted in by the surround villages and dumped the gig halfway through. Name is still mud in Corby. I lived there six months of this year and every town person who knew who she was thought she was a shit. Never to be found doing any constituency work whatsoever. Unobtainable by phone or email.
ViolentPanda
Hardly getting over it.
Louise Mensch advocating aggressive tactics for the Conservatives in the coming election campaign:
"And I’d campaign virally"
http://www.newstatesman.com/2013/09/bring-torymakeover
Read that in last week's hard copy of the Staggers. It's about as lucid as a wet fart, and as meaningful as a whore's kiss. She comes across as a speeder gabbing 19 to the dozen.
pissflaps
i've got a headache in my pants...
worst polish accent ever.
DotCommunist
So many particulars. So many questions.
she's too much money to be on the billy whizz. Gotta be columbias largest export
The Pale King
Well-Known Member
Like your turn of phrase!
Yeah - her article reads like a free-association of lame clichés. Spectacularly unenlightening. Why the New Statesman are publishing her I have no idea, unless they are going to do a sort of left - right face off on each issue with her against Laurie Penny.
DotCommunist
So many particulars. So many questions.
christ I'd rather read the warning labels on a fag packet than that
el-ahrairah
forward communism, forward gerbils!
butchersapron
Bring back hanging
http://www.secularism.org.uk/news/2...ated-at-freshers-fair-over-offensive-t-shirtsJunior commentariat/next generation of interns:
frogwoman
No amount of cajolery...
Maurice Picarda
Actually, might as well flounce.
Paul Staines has published a letter purportedly from Mehdi Hasan to Paul Dacre. It has the ring of authenticity; if it's been mocked up, then it was done very well indeed.
Dear Mr Dacre,
My name is Mehdi Hasan and I’m the New Statesman’s senior political editor. My good friend Peter Oborne suggested I drop you a line as I’m very keen to write for the Daily Mail.
Although I am on the left of the political spectrum, and disagree with the Mail’s editorial line on a range of issues, I have always admired the paper’s passion, rigour, boldness and, of course, news values. I believe the Mail has a vitally important role to play in the national debate, and I admire your relentless focus on the need for integrity and morality in public life, and your outspoken defence of faith, and Christian culture, in the face of attacks from militant atheists and secularists. I also believe – as does Peter – that I could be a fresh and passionate, not to mention polemical and contrarian, voice on the comment and feature pages of your award-winning newspaper.
For the record, I am not a Labour tribalist and am often ultra-critical of the left – especially on social and moral issues, where my fellow leftists and liberals have lost touch with their own traditions and with the great British public. In my column in this week’s issue of the New Statesman, for example, I offered a critique of the five Labour leadership candidates, and their various inadequacies, accusing them all of lacking what George Bush Snr once called “the vision thing”.
I could therefore write pieces for the Mail critical of Labour and the left, from “inside” Labour and the left (as the senior political editor at the New Statesman).
I am also attracted by the Mail’s social conservatism on issues like marriage, the family, abortion and teenage pregnancies. I’d like to write a piece for the Mailmaking the left-wing case against abortion, or a piece on why marriage should be a Labour value, and not just a Conservative one. My own unabashed social conservatism on such issues derives from my Islamic faith. But as a British Muslim, I have also upset some of my more hardline co-religionists in the past by arguing, in print, for a change in Islam’s draconian apostasy laws to allow Muslims to convert to other faiths (like Christianity). Here is a New Statesman column I wrote on the subject in April.
In addition, I wrote a column last year condemning suicide bombings, from an Islamic and moral perspective, in which I also castigated Muslims for failing to unequivocally condemn such acts of terror wherever in the world they occur.
And, earlier this year, I wrote a piece for the Guardian belittling Muslim extremist Anjum Choudary and his crude, headline-grabbing attempt to carry “coffins” through Wootton Bassett.
A bit of background: I am 31, and was born and brought up in the United Kingdom, the son of Indian immigrants (an engineer and a doctor) who came here in the 1960s. I am an Oxfordgraduate. Prior to joining the New Statesman in June 2009, I spent a decade working in television as a news-and-current-affairs producer at ITN, the BBC, Sky News and Channel 4.
I do hope you’ll consider me for future columns and features in the Daily Mail on political, social, moral and/or religious issues. I believe you once told sports columnist Des Kelly that he should “make them laugh, make them cry, or make them angry”. That’s something I believe I could do for you, and for your readers, on the pages of the Mail.
Thank you very much for your time.
Sincerely,
Mehdi Hasan
Senior Editor (politics)
New Statesman
Dear Mr Dacre,
My name is Mehdi Hasan and I’m the New Statesman’s senior political editor. My good friend Peter Oborne suggested I drop you a line as I’m very keen to write for the Daily Mail.
Although I am on the left of the political spectrum, and disagree with the Mail’s editorial line on a range of issues, I have always admired the paper’s passion, rigour, boldness and, of course, news values. I believe the Mail has a vitally important role to play in the national debate, and I admire your relentless focus on the need for integrity and morality in public life, and your outspoken defence of faith, and Christian culture, in the face of attacks from militant atheists and secularists. I also believe – as does Peter – that I could be a fresh and passionate, not to mention polemical and contrarian, voice on the comment and feature pages of your award-winning newspaper.
For the record, I am not a Labour tribalist and am often ultra-critical of the left – especially on social and moral issues, where my fellow leftists and liberals have lost touch with their own traditions and with the great British public. In my column in this week’s issue of the New Statesman, for example, I offered a critique of the five Labour leadership candidates, and their various inadequacies, accusing them all of lacking what George Bush Snr once called “the vision thing”.
I could therefore write pieces for the Mail critical of Labour and the left, from “inside” Labour and the left (as the senior political editor at the New Statesman).
I am also attracted by the Mail’s social conservatism on issues like marriage, the family, abortion and teenage pregnancies. I’d like to write a piece for the Mailmaking the left-wing case against abortion, or a piece on why marriage should be a Labour value, and not just a Conservative one. My own unabashed social conservatism on such issues derives from my Islamic faith. But as a British Muslim, I have also upset some of my more hardline co-religionists in the past by arguing, in print, for a change in Islam’s draconian apostasy laws to allow Muslims to convert to other faiths (like Christianity). Here is a New Statesman column I wrote on the subject in April.
In addition, I wrote a column last year condemning suicide bombings, from an Islamic and moral perspective, in which I also castigated Muslims for failing to unequivocally condemn such acts of terror wherever in the world they occur.
And, earlier this year, I wrote a piece for the Guardian belittling Muslim extremist Anjum Choudary and his crude, headline-grabbing attempt to carry “coffins” through Wootton Bassett.
A bit of background: I am 31, and was born and brought up in the United Kingdom, the son of Indian immigrants (an engineer and a doctor) who came here in the 1960s. I am an Oxfordgraduate. Prior to joining the New Statesman in June 2009, I spent a decade working in television as a news-and-current-affairs producer at ITN, the BBC, Sky News and Channel 4.
I do hope you’ll consider me for future columns and features in the Daily Mail on political, social, moral and/or religious issues. I believe you once told sports columnist Des Kelly that he should “make them laugh, make them cry, or make them angry”. That’s something I believe I could do for you, and for your readers, on the pages of the Mail.
Thank you very much for your time.
Sincerely,
Mehdi Hasan
Senior Editor (politics)
New Statesman
butchersapron
Bring back hanging
It's genuine - as MH admitted sometime this afternoon.
J Ed
Follow Back Pro Expropriation
We all change our opinions to some extent with new information but I think that Mehdi Hassan is a rent-a-gob whose opinions shift depending on the audience, see his calling non-Muslims cattle to an Islamist audience and his entirely unconvincing subsequent denials.
Maurice Picarda
Actually, might as well flounce.
So it appears that it was written in 2010 and the Mail kept it just in case they needed it to use against Hasan in the future.
brogdale
Coming to terms with late onset Anarchism
I suppose MH feels he must have scored a direct hit against the DM if they're minded to release such a letter. Might make other journos think twice before contacting the organisation?
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