Julie Burchill, Rod Liddle, Ash Shakar, and a late appearance by Owen Jones. God save us. It's the seven dwarves of intellect. No, I doubt they can count either.
I've never understood what everyone sees in Jones. He's a second rate journalist whose political acumen has developed little beyond student politics. I know he's gay and writes for the Guardian - but that doesn't make you a great thinker or champion of the Left. He's closer to Mandelson than Mandela...
Indeed, and Ash Shakur is pretty much anti-everything without really being anti. I find them as tedious as each other, regardless of the team they play for (basically right vs left contrarian) as they spat on Twitter. Is it news that Rod Liddle or Julie Burchill write something stupid – it's how they get paid. It all seems a bit tediously incestuous, they write something stupid, they others leap to the contrarian position. Tweets over the battlements!
Just. Fuck. Off. None of it interesting or witty. If you're going to write an offensive twat piece be a fucking AA Gill and a not Rod Liddle. At least be interestingly offensive. And the left, just dull, dull, dull. They are perpetual danger of writing something that will offend themselves. Not of it really makes you think:
well you might have a point. It'd being contrary for the sake of it.
We can include Toby Young, the self-styled Lozza, the barmy haired Suzanne Moore, the stern fringed feminists of the Guardian comments, the perpetually wrong JHB and so many more. I reckon there are far more than seven intellectual dwarves in play. Scrolling back through this thread, I think we're actually watching the Stupid Olympics.