January 14, 2013

January 14, 2013 by yorksranter 2 comments

Let the air in

So here’s Lord Freud confronted with the public on BBC Radio 5. (Wouldn’t it be nice if rather than the QR code, the BBC Web site offered an embed?) Jesus, what a pathetic mess. If I were a big political party’s spin doctor, here’s something I would do. Rather than send second-division pols on Today…

January 14, 2013 by yorksranter 0 comments

stop repeating your insults

If Burchill had used similar venom against Jewish or black people, would there be any backlash against the article being withdrawn? — Owen Jones🌹 (@OwenJones84) January 14, 2013 Well, I’d seen the twitterflap, so I read the bloody thing in the paper. The obvious point that came to mind was that if you tried to…

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