- Tue Dec 07, 2021 11:12 am
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He styles himself as a plain speaking, live and let live sort of guy, up for a pint and a pie and setting the world to rights while reminiscing over old sitcoms and shared nostalgia.
In actual fact he's a misanthrope (the misogynist part goes without saying) who, reading between the lines of his autobiography/memoirs, was that kid at school who wasn't smart enough for one tribe or hard enough for the other. Son of a cop who seems not averse to the odd bit of casual bentness and whose approach to policing seemed to be "giving the troublemakers a slap".
He made his mark as a columnist by writing for Kelvin MacKenzie's "right old fascist" Sun reader stereotype - the bastard who has achieved nothing, gone nowhere, and blames everyone else for being [something]er than him. He deals entirely in caricatures - not just his beloved sitcom characters and regular parade of dopey birds, wet lefties, Neanderthal thugs, scary lesbians and camp poofters, but that tabloid institution, the Great British Eccentric. The common man showing up the system with his homespun philosophy and cereal packet wisdom of trivia. The sort of guy who Tom Sharpe wrote well, and it seems every twat tries to copy.
As the actress said to the bishop, rabbi, imam and priest
"My eyes have seen the glory, I'm a born again Atheist!"