“I never read a book before reviewing it – it prejudices a man so.” So said the Anglican clergyman, wit and author Sydney Smith, whose own books I must confess I have never read myself.
It is in this same spirit that I notice Ireland’s most celebrated (by the Leftish media and literary establishment, anyway) novelist Sally Rooney has a new book out. Called Intermezzo, it apparently concerns the fascinatingly erudite inner lives and relationships of a group of impeccably Left-leaning Irish millennials who have probably not long left Trinity College, Dublin, and sit around all day being terribly concerned about women’s rights, the climate crisis, mental health issues and the alleged ills of late capitalism, because that’s what all of her books are about, ever: telling them apart is as futile a task as trying to remember which Hercule Poirot mystery is which, but at least those particular books have the virtue of seeing some of their main protagonists get horribly murdered, which does not appear to happen in any of Ms. Rooney’s works, sadly.
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It is circumstances like this that reveal beyond doubt what are the values of the Conservatives. The few who complained include some who did nothing when Ministers but the bulk of the Conservative Party sees no reason to object.
Left wingers are preferred to GB News, in their eyes.
However much this same small band of Tory MPs remonstrate with their Party on various issues they don’t make the slightest difference in the big state, leftwards drift of the Party.
“Good practice”??????????????????? So Cultural Marxism is good? All media must spout leftist progressive dogma to be classed as “Good”? When you only have one narrative you have tyranny. Conservative views are to be criminalised. If only 46 conservatives wrote to the prime Minister then the rest need to just admit they are no longer conservatives.
“If only 46 conservatives wrote to the prime Minister then the rest need to just admit they are no longer conservatives….”
….and Resign their seats.
Right wing?? so, a level headed, common sense, white british male human being like me is right wing am i?
If that’s what you progressive mp’s want to call 80% of your countries voters then,so be it! I’m a right wing racist! and I’ll vote accordingly!
Your apparent belief that level-headed, common-sense, white British men exist marks you obviously as fascist, ie, throroughly despicable opponent of the people who don’t who’s secretly itching to genocide transwomen by excluding them from women’s sport competitions or something likewise horrible, say, torture millions of people to death.
Do you know me?
Can’t we have some sort of truth-in-advertising which stop groups like Stop funding hate!
from using obviously misleading names for themselves to (try to) hide the actual focus of their activities? Would a betting outlet be allowed to advertise itself as Provider of financial services many people chose to trust?
How quickly would things change if all government advertising was pulled from CAN members?
Jim Hacker was meant to represent the typical, spineless Tory MP but he did at least try to fight The Blob, and occasionally won.
These kind of spineless so called “representatives of the poeple” make my f-ing blood boil!
So the government is happy with the bully-boy tactics of CAN. What a surprise.
Pedantic comment: scepticism of or regarding, not “towards”. Sorry.
Is this the same advertising world which regularly over represents coloured and mixed race families in TV advertisements?