[Youngian]

What’s Mr Parris’s view on euthanasia?

[Philip Marlow]

A rare delight.

[Watchman]

Hope Mr Murdoch’s not read that. But there again he probably dabbles in cytogenetic procedures.

[Abernathy]

Matthew Parris is 75 years old.

[davidjay]

Matthew Parris is 75 years old.

So he'll be long gone by then.

[Philip Marlow]

He’s also sufficiently well off that I suspect his elder necessities can be taken care of privately if need be. It’s the untermensch reliant on the NHS and social services (what’s left of them) who will have to be pointed firmly in the direction of the early exit door.

[Philip Marlow]

Andrew Neil in ‘continuing to be a twat’ shocker.

[Philip Marlow]

The Spectator has risen in defence of its man.

[RedSparrows]

What I've read and heard of Douglas Murray seems to be summable up as:

- I'm very eloquent, you know
- I like Western CivilisationTM
- The darkies don't respect it, and I'm sick of putting up with it
- Western CivilisationTM is what I say it is
- Get the bastards out, but with a polite voice
- ???
- Profit?

[Andy McDandy]

Funnily enough, that's very similar to Nelson's 'defence' of him:

1. We're the Spectator, dontcha know?
2. Dougie's getting a lot of stick from the plebs on Xitter.
3. Dougie's one of the cheps, dontcha know?
4. We don't respond to oiks.
5. Fuck off.

[Philip Marlow]

Whatever you think of the political capabilities of Humza Yousaf, the fact that Murray’s describing him as having ‘infiltrated’ Scottish politics by virtue of…I dunno…being born in the country and successfully running for elected office?…should remove whatever shreds of doubt were left about the kind of ideology he’s pushing.

His continued ‘respectability’ in British public life is just nauseating.

[Andy McDandy]

Douglas Murray always got a free pass for his vicious far-right bigotry from a certain type of 'liberal' because he was a) hardline anti-Islamist and pro-Israel

Translation - on the sliding scale of minorities, he's nicer to the whiter and less obvious ones.

[Philip Marlow]

Funnily enough, that's very similar to Nelson's 'defence' of him:

1. We're the Spectator, dontcha know?
2. Dougie's getting a lot of stick from the plebs on Xitter.
3. Dougie's one of the cheps, dontcha know?
4. We don't respond to oiks.
5. Fuck off.

Actually, coming back to this, it reminds me that while some things have changed since Polly Toynbee’s recalling of the glory days of Auberon Waugh, other things have barely changed at all.

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2001/ ... ws.comment

In the Guardian obituary Geoffrey Wheatcroft says Waugh's foes were "baffled by the boyish camaraderie of old Fleet Street, not to say its tradition of ecumenical friendship". And baffled we remain. I remember it well - the old world of El Vino's wine bar in Fleet Street where leftwing lambs and rightwing lions downed their differences in bottles of champagne - (no women allowed at the bar). It was all just a game, old boy, at the end of the day once the copy had been filed. What did it matter what you wrote or who you wrote it for so long as it was witty, clever and preferably wicked? Everyone in Grub Street had their saleable trade mark, right or left, but was anything really serious?

[Philip Marlow]

Extra fun fact: Paul Marshall is the father of Winston, aka the banjo-bothering tit from Mumford & Sons who ended up leaving after outing himself as an Andy Ngo fanboy.

[Tubby Isaacs]

Not that the Spectator was anything better than godawful before, but this is going to drive the Tories even more batshit.

[Youngian]

This may explain Andrew Neil's prompt resignation as he's fostered good relations with Asian communities. Perhaps readers have a photo of Andrew doing just that.

Last year, an investigation by Hope Not Hate and The News Agents podcast, revealed that Paul Marshall’s Twitter/X account had liked or retweeted multiple posts calling for the expulsion of refugees and migrants, advocating Islamophobic conspiracies, and decrying homosexuality. One of the liked tweets said, “It’s a matter of time before civil war starts in Europe. The native European population is losing patience with fake refugee invaders.”

[Andy McDandy]

[Philip Marlow]

That photo almost makes me feel nostalgic now. I’m sure I’ve a creaking old Private Eye annual somewhere which my parents got me for Christmas, and which probably gave me my first sight of it.

[Youngian]

Neil's worn well but he did look on the wrong side of middle aged 40 years ago.

[Philip Marlow]

Fraser Nelson is stepping down. Praise be! I wonder who they’ll get in to replace…

Oh fuck.