tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6214838.post2463662093777790552..comments2024-03-04T17:54:32.559+00:00Comments on Iain Dale's Diary: Who Wants to be Editor of the New Statesman?Iain Dalehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03270146219458384372noreply@blogger.comBlogger12125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6214838.post-12066434513345078502008-03-24T15:34:00.000+00:002008-03-24T15:34:00.000+00:00Well, perhaps i am pulling your leg a little regar...Well, perhaps i am pulling your leg a little regarding the whole Lord Ashcroft funded politicallly 'neutral' total politics (which i actually look forward to).<BR/><BR/>The point still stands thought, Neil Lawson is not a New Labour stooge, and is chair of the most prominent organisations of the centre left.Southpaw Grammarhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02195993493927781388noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6214838.post-5654045823915549162008-03-22T20:45:00.000+00:002008-03-22T20:45:00.000+00:00Southpaw Grammar, and what comeuppance would that ...Southpaw Grammar, and what comeuppance would that be then?Iain Dalehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03270146219458384372noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6214838.post-86745726492015659692008-03-22T20:36:00.000+00:002008-03-22T20:36:00.000+00:00As a compass member, i cannot understand you makin...As a compass member, i cannot understand you making the comment about Lawson being too Brownite. Compass has been vocally independent from the New Labour Government on many, many issues, and is seen as the most prominent centre-left movement (perhaps the only one!).<BR/><BR/>I am not passing comment on the skills needed to be an editor as i do not know, but to call Lawson somehow a New Labour stooge is simply not true.<BR/><BR/>Its funny how Iain is very keen to paint the 'editor' link with such lack of irony, nothing to do with your own come uppance over Total 'we are independent honest guv' Politics. I will wait before i pass judgement on the output of total politics...Southpaw Grammarhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02195993493927781388noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6214838.post-70815322030804642202008-03-22T12:00:00.000+00:002008-03-22T12:00:00.000+00:00Seddon, yes! Start a "Draft Mark" campaign. Though...Seddon, yes! Start a "Draft Mark" campaign. Though why he would want to give up a nice gig with Al-Jazeera to immerse himself in the slime of Labour left-politics again, I can't imagine.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6214838.post-81531547083739087812008-03-22T11:26:00.000+00:002008-03-22T11:26:00.000+00:00There was an article by my mate in the Guardian to...There was an article by my mate in the Guardian today. I read it just a few minutes ago. I wasn't paying very close attention, and I managed not to notice who was its author. Then I read the sentence "I had to go to university and become middle-class before I found out what a chickpea actually is" and I just knew. I looked at the header and was confirmed in my "suspicion".<BR/><BR/>It's like Tony Makara on ConHome. I can spot one of his comments before I get to the tagline, because he keeps running certain themes and sying certain things like no other contributor.<BR/><BR/>Martin Kettle's article was a load of shite.asquithhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14246701347539264295noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6214838.post-27907633455889330492008-03-22T11:00:00.000+00:002008-03-22T11:00:00.000+00:00Morning Newmania, nice to hear from you again :) I...Morning Newmania, nice to hear from you again :) I noticed the self-congratulation too. But it doesn't bother me. I think it's justifiable. How many other people in the media are working-class? I think she is a big person, probably bigger than I am, for not hating the people she has left behind. <BR/><BR/>Because I grew up on a sink estate (and still live on it) and I find it hard to not simply loathe the people on my street, from my old school, and so on when I see the way they carry on. Although I do try, I generally have the same reaction as everyone else when they shout abuse, play their shit music, and generally carry out low-level asb and make life worse for me.<BR/><BR/>It's a lot easier to sneer at people and shout abuse at them than to see them as human beings no different from anyone else. It's very easy to be cynical and congratulate yourself on how "realistic" you are. But this country certainly doesn't need more of that sort of attitude.asquithhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14246701347539264295noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6214838.post-18161017122482339232008-03-22T08:30:00.000+00:002008-03-22T08:30:00.000+00:00Her account of her limited childhood on an estate ...<I>Her account of her limited childhood on an estate is a must-read.</I><BR/>Oh Jesus I am just reading it and what a dull self obsessed dirge it is..<BR/><BR/>She brings the the light celebratory fizz of Fatima Whitbread to what is already a depressing subject and the not very sub , sub text of the whole ponderous melodrama ,is look how bloody brilliant I must be . <BR/><BR/>" I walk down the brutal street where Mrs.Sod died of being poor and her leporous daughter commited suicide because she wasn`t in the media ...only I I I saw the way to become MIDDLE CLASS"Newmaniahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11922161971821380803noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6214838.post-52201042198288653982008-03-21T22:50:00.000+00:002008-03-21T22:50:00.000+00:00I'm sure a lot of your readers read Private Eye to...I'm sure a lot of your readers read Private Eye too muppet!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6214838.post-68364790300550888122008-03-21T21:44:00.000+00:002008-03-21T21:44:00.000+00:00Neal Lawson edits the excellent Renewal magazine (...Neal Lawson edits the excellent Renewal magazine (Lawrence and Wishart).Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6214838.post-27581426770400584262008-03-21T19:47:00.000+00:002008-03-21T19:47:00.000+00:00Talking of journalists....Did you read Polly today...Talking of journalists....Did you read Polly today...A 40% reduction in crime under Labour...How in heavens name does she get away with it..Let alone paid for that kind of drivel<BR/><BR/>MartinAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6214838.post-17386921325782145642008-03-21T18:36:00.000+00:002008-03-21T18:36:00.000+00:00But I thought Compass was 'Old Labour' rather than...But I thought Compass was 'Old Labour' rather than Brownite, with 'Progress' being the Mandelsonian New Labour arm ? Or have I got the wrong end of the stick ?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6214838.post-86350820133120376292008-03-21T18:30:00.000+00:002008-03-21T18:30:00.000+00:00The last 2 articles of the New Statesman featured ...The last 2 articles of the New Statesman featured nothing from my mate Lynsey Hanley. I hope they haven't done anything to her!? Not only is she a superb writer on her own terms, I like her personally because she is working-class. Her account of her limited childhood on an estate is a must-read. I gave a very pale echo of it in one of my posts.<BR/><BR/>http://hh-asquith.blogspot.com/2008/03/this-should-be-speech.html<BR/><BR/>And I read some horrific sub-Spectator rubbish in the NS last week. What's going on?asquithhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14246701347539264295noreply@blogger.com