Fraser Nelson is New Editor of the Speccie
In what is a bit of surprise (in that it didn’t leak) the Speccie will have a new editor starting next week. 36 year-old Fraser is taking over on Monday. He is no Cameroon and will push for sound economic policies from the next government.
Matthew leaves the Speccie in fine fettle, it has a circulation at an all time high of 75,000 and the website sometimes has even more traffic than this blog. In June Guido reported a rumour that “Matthew d’Ancona is thinking of moving on from the Speccie”…
UPDATE : “After more than three and a half delightful and rewarding years as Editor, exciting opportunities are arising and I have decided to move on…” No news yet as to where d’Ancona is going next, but he confirms he will still be writing his Telegraph columns. Which suggests Dacre’s job is safe…
it started in Scotland
Editor’s of papers should court a bit more controversy. Every time I watch of read the news it looks as if it has always been through some censorship process.
The problem with that mi6 , everytime someone starts a debate like dan hanan on nhs and powell , he is called a traiter , racist etc etc , we have to change the way we debate and not just dismiss annyone who has a different view
Britian loves the Neo-cons. FOX News loves the Neo-cons
Everyone loves the Neo-cons! They’re grrrrrrrrrrreeeat!
Yeah, and a double hooray for the fucktard socialists loving BBC, British Bollocks Сuntocracy.
Sorry old chap, two pairs of c unts don’t make a right and you seem to be forgetting Bliar was cocksucker in chief for Neo-con morons like Bush.
You obviously work for the BBC, сunt.
Of course. Because only the BBC thinks the Neo-cons are complete fucksticks even though the BBC championed Bliar’s Iraq war like good little poodles until Kelly.
And the BBC are forever saying Broon is an incompetent fuckwit.
You couldn’t even be bothered to fit hoon or Dolly into your kneejerk response. Must try harder.
This
http://www.commentarymagazine.com/blogs/index.php/rubin/79351
didn’t make it into AlJaBeebya coverage.
you have already been warned about this anticitizen: do not abuse the hospitality of your generous host by indiscriminately posting links with no original comment by you, the poster.
stop taking the fucking piss you dopey fucking cloth-eared c’unt.
final warning.
Thick Ass lunatic,
I’ll take my warnings from Guido, not some deranged, mentally-ill, crippled tramp called tat.
you’ll do as you’re fucking told.
“You couldn’t even be bothered to fit hoon or Dolly into your kneejerk response. Must try harder.”
hoon and Dolly are so last years news, please keep up.
Boys, boys! Play nicely, if you please.
Tat,
I will not and never do what an imbecile like you tells me to do.
oh yes you fucking will c’unt.
seen him on the news at vairous times he comes across ok
snivelling little git
Now now , No need for that
FUCK OFF
He is a very sound business journalist, and has was part of the team that made the Sunday Business a must read. Print however is his métier – when he is on broadcast media he tends to sound a bit like Miss Jean Brodie.
I suppose so if you think Jean Brodie was a journalist.
Andrew K – sorry. I hadn’t spotted your wise comment.
Matthew told me that he is angling for the editorship of the Catholic Herald
I thought that was earmarked for Blair, now he has failed to secure the Presidency of the EU.
He couldn’t be in charge of a goat
I’ll look after the goat
His bid (Presidency of the E.U) has cost the British taxpayer several billion pounds ongoing, the money he handed back to them on a plate that Thatcher had wrung out of them. Well you win some you lose some and its not as if its going to come out of our Tones pocket now is it.
Jeff’s not been in now for quite a while.
He is one of the very few journalists who has the wit and the patience to pursue Brown’s lies:
That was ace.
It would have been if Fraser had run over and kicked him in the balls.
Or chucked his shoes at him like the journlist in Iraq did to G. bush
Anyone with a conscience who sees a member of their family or friends put an x next to Liebour on their voting forms next year will seriously need to check whether their granny is being auctioned on eBay.
That monocular, lying scumbag is a hoon of the first order. I hate him more than Bliar and Stalin.
I love that video, just watching McSnot gurning and swivelling around, not knowing what “appropriate” facial expression or body language to adopt, smiling maniacally until the drugs kick back in, is a treat.
The flinch and jaw drop as he realises he has chosen an untame hack, is priceless.
It’s a bit of a pity he couldn’t even see through the transparent Lies of Bliar and Bush about weapons of Mass Destruction though ?
Oh well, no harm no foul as they say.
You can see snotty desperately trying to catch the eye of Toilets so he can be asked a tame question: “Tell us, prime minister, what things of interest have you done this week…”
Who’s Pirate Pete next to Frazier??
And Mr brown wonders why he and his party are so low in the polls
Who’s the pirate sat next to Fraser, shipmate?
A one eyed Gordon Brown impersonator who slipped in the back door.
That was no Pirate just the guy who dared to open his mouth at the last Gordon Brown press conference, got a board rubber in his face.
Hang on, aren’t public spending rises a no no now?
That question sounded planted from a septics point of view
ANSWER THE QUESTINON YOU DECEITFULL BASTARD !!!
The only PM in history to describe spending cuts as increases and investments.
Pants on fire Gordon…
gordon brown refuses to accept reality.
will public spending increase? it does not seem possible to me.
with tax revenue dropping, the cost of bailing out the bankers, the cost of dodgy PFI contracts for schools and hospitals, the cost of public sector pension: due to these drains on the public purse and considering we are in a recession it seems inconceivable that public spending will increase over the next three years.
the way things are going departments will be lucky to maintain retain their current budgets.
if that is the case, then public spending in real terms will decrease by 9% over the next three years.
brown, as chancellor, should have reduced government debt and saved some cash, but he wanted to splash it around to build a client state in order to perpetuate labour’s political dominance.
brown thought he was clever enough to outwit and circumvent democracy.
he is presiding over an elective dictatorship, as I believe Lord Hailsham called it.
in the final analsysis gordon brown is a fascist.
note to brown: resign scum. doctor roberts won’t save you now c’unt.
you are on the list mr brown.
you are going to get the special treatment motherfucker.
resign.
It’s just semantics. One could look on it as “a rise in negative investment.”
Expat Steve, you’re a bit of a IT wizzard, I’ve noticed. Can you recommend a plug-in for a browser that enables one to ‘grey-out’ pre-existing comments on every refresh? I’m getting fed up reading the same comments over and over again tying to find some new pearls!
Try SiteDelta for Firefox
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:SiteDelta_tutorial
Once you’ve visited the comments once, you can save the current state, and next time you visit, you can just click through the changes. In a nasty colour, mind.
there is a pearl above you.
but you are too blind a c’unt to see it!
dopey fucker.
please could retards like cable guy just fuck off to conserativefoam. now.
it is just the place for the type of tory cripples who hang around this place. as the tories were useless in opposition so the torydaleks zooming up and down threads here also serve no real purpose.
party politics is so 20th century innit.
’tis time to shut down the corrupted party machines.
VOTE FOR A LOCAL INDEPENDENT CANDIDATE
the next election will be our last ditch defence against the continuing erosion of our democracy as well as of our rights.
fuck dave fuck gordon fuck nick – vote independent.
If you vote independent then you won’t know what government policy will be. A bunch of independents sitting in a room trying to form a government after an election, making up policy as they go along is asking for big trouble. Like Italy in the old days.
Don’t talk out yer arse tat.
please don’t respond to Tats trolling.
you must be having a fucking larf phil you dopey fuck.
gordon and dave have made no policy committments so what the fuck are you talking about phil you cretin.
DOH!
you are as dimwitted as anticitizenone.
you pair of fucking clowns.
Anyone who could rattle McBride’s cage is a friend to us all.
Doesn’t McBride work in some kid’s school now?
“McBride!!!! There’s arses need wiping out here.”
Even the Observor said of him in 2007 when he became the Spectator’s Political Editor that “he is the fastest rising star of right wing journalism” and “someone to keep an eye on.”
A quote he says influenced his political thinking “the government which governs best, governs least”
Sounds OK. Sounds better than OK.
A quote he says influenced his political thinking “the government which governs best, governs least”
He sounds like a real Tory like DH, does CMD know these guys are in the same party as he is?
‘Blues under the beds!!!’
buckle my shoe
Do it your sen but make sure your back’s against a wall.
” Which suggests Dacre’s job is safe…”
Gordon would miss him.
Gordon misses everything – the point, the target etc etc
Mr Fawkes , I looked at the shop you have , I may be wrong but do you do the “Gordon is moron ” t-shirt in mens size , I could only see a pink one
Finaly,a journalist with bigger balls than Caster Semenya.
congratulations fraser , still like your critique of goverment spending plans from 2 months ago which were in fact cuts .
respect
I like Fraser Nelson, one of the best looking guys in politic, and intelligent too
I fancy him too, and his funny voice cracks me up. xxx
I DoUnt NO waht You Meean y’No y’No.
I would love to see Fox News start over here, just to piss off the socialists. Watching those swiveling eyes and foaming at the mouth of the lefties in government and at the BBC would be great entertainment, as at least someone in the Broadcast News would be countering their pink skewed world view.
Would be amusing seeing the likes brown, mandy or balls on glenn beck
Glenn Beck could interview Madine Dotties live from one of her houses on moonbase alpha
No fan of Lord Handlemebum, God knows, but I fancy he would wipe the floor with Glenn Beck!
Not sure about this. I think it could make the right look extremist and thick. One of the great propaganda victories of the left was to identify itself with intelligence. Lefties actually have a very narrow and irrational view of life and politics, based on prejudice, emotion and unexamined, received wisdom. Righties have a deeper understanding of human nature and a far more nuanced idea of the roles of government and the individual. We understand them; they don’t understand us; our thought is too subtle for them. Fox News, on the other hand, is all to often as biassed and narrowly partisan as the BBC. It is like the straw man that lefties put up when caricaturing right-wing views.
Having said that the handwringing lefties used to hate Murdoch and The Sun – especially after it skewered Kinnock with the wonderful “would the last person to leave the country please turn out the lights” pre-election headline. And then, suddenly the left warmed to Murdoch. That would have been about the time he switched sides and started supporting Blair. Funny how leftie principles can evaporate so quickly when the tide turns….
Surely it was Murdoch’s “principles” which turned vis-a-vis Blair?
Nelson seems sharper politically than d’Ancona and he is more journalistic and less op-editorial. I hope the Speccie doesn’t become narrowly political, though. i like the idea of the mag having some wider vision of which its political views are one of the practical parts.
Well done Fraser. A well-deserved promotion. I hope you’ll eventually become an MP and an influential member of a Tory cabinet.
In Berwickshire Roxburgh and Selkirk anything is possible…. give me a tinkle.
Nelson is a Scot, I thought everybody on this blog hated Scots. He’s handsome AND intelligent, now there’s a first.
Allow me a final word on that lying murderous drunken fucktard who was Ted Kennedy and his mafioso family.
“The Kennedy’s , a Dynasty who gave money a bad name ! “
But Nelson is a jocko Scotch son of the manse hoon. Now even the Speccie has fallen to the Scotch Conspiracy against Engerland. Shocking.
Brillopad has been editor-in-chief of the mag and the Torygraphs since Sir David Taxdodge and Sir Frederick Taxdodge took over, so the lowland scots mafia has been in charge for a while.
Surely the English are not becoming as resentful about the Scots as the Anglophobic Scots are about the English?
The Government is a failure because it is imposing Socialism without a mandate, not because it is Scottish.
The fact that a sizeable number of Scots are resentful about England is a product of indoctrination by generations of Scots who believed they would be patronised by the English. Shamefully, some Scots were inhospitable towards English visitors, but many English people have successfully made happy lives in Scotland.
Scots who came to live in England were invariably treated with humour and tolerance. I have never once been abused because I have a Scottish accent and it would be depressing if the English feel they must now resort to that kind of pathetic xenophobia.
Glaswegian, while broadly agreeing with your sentiment you should not forget that it was Scotland (and Clydeside in particular) that was a breeding ground for socialism, from Kier Hardie to Jimmy Reid (and Betty his Ma). This eventually mutated into NuLiebor which tries unsuccessfully to disown socialism. Hence the equation of Scots with socialism.
Glaswegian, broadly I agree with you, but the rancid socialist politics of Glasgow are a menace to the whole of the UK, not just the West of Scotland. It is no wonder that many people freeze when they hear a Glaswegian voice talking on politics – and this includes many Scots, myself among them.
The Labour Pary in Scotland and the West Of Scotland in Particular is a cess pitt of nepotism,favouritism , courruption and in some csases bigotry. It has been destructive to Scottish life for decades. It must be rejected for Scotland to progress in or out of the UK.
Glaswegian: agreed, up to a point, but from an English point of view, the recent antics of Blair, Brown, Martin, Reid, Cook, Irvine and toxic Clydeside socialism – not to mention the occasional reports of gratuitous abuse of innocuous English tourists – does your noble nation no favours.
Scottish? Need a holiday? Come to Libya. We owe you a favour and you’ll be treated like chippy ginger kings.
Could be a smart move by Salmond: Scotland twinned with Libya.
Royalty ? Need a holiday ? Come Come to Libya. You owe us a favour Prince Andrew and you’ll be treated like a king because you prosituted yourself for BP.
You can even bring your convicted gun smuggler “friend” Tarek Kaituni with you again.
Republican ? Need a holiday ? Come to Libya again. You owe us a favour John McCain and you’ll be treated like a king because you prosituted yourself for ExxonMobil and Chevron onyour last visit.
How dare you talk that way about Mr McCain, he is the finest most honourable midget I have ever known.
and his chips are luuuvly
we love prossies on here, especially if there’s oil involved.
Why is it that the left doesn’t produce such good journalists?
I have read and seen Michael White several times on TV – he comes across in his writing and in person as rather pompous and condescending.
Then there is Maguire of the Mirror who writes such outrageously toadying stuff about Labour that he renders what he says almost comic in its bias!!
And then of course there’s the Beeb!!!!
Yeah! Those c unts even fell for all the Bliar and Bush bullshit about Iraq and Weapons of Mass Destruction.
You wouldn’t catch Fraser Nelson out so easily with such nonsense.
Leftism is at it’s core a form of narcissism. Reporting is about other people. No wonder the left never get its journalism right.
I almost feel sorry for the journalism of the left because like labour MP’s it is heading towards a black hole next year.
If the tory government pulls the guardian’s public sector job advertising contract then, given it’s deficit, surely it is finished.
Who reads the mirror now? And how many will be interested in its blatantly unbalanced biased views next year?
As for the Beeb – I hope it’s privatised, made to stand on its own two feet and seek its customers with the quality of its output.
Big massive tits!
Huge massive breasts!!
Have you forgotten Paul Foot?
I don’t claim to be widely read. But I am always eager to know and understand more. Please tell me about Paul Foot.
Yes.
For some inexplicable reason I have been modded – do you mean this person?
http://blogs.mirror.co.uk/festivals/2009/08/paul-foot—by-the-yard.html
I’ve been modded twice. Guido won’t let me say PF
Why does he let you say it – that’s not fair!!
Maybe they will let you have a go on the big swings later if you are good.
I’m trying desperately hard to do so…..
contessa please tell me about pf.
Just wiki highlights though
Mr Foot was named journalist of the year in the What The Papers Say Awards in 1972 and 1989 and campaigning journalist of the year in the 1980 British Press Awards; he won the George Orwell Prize for Journalism in 1995 with Tim Laxton, won the journalist of the decade prize in the What The Papers Say Awards in 2000, and the James Cameron special posthumous Award in 2004.
His best known work was in the form of campaign journalism, including his exposure of corrupt architect John Poulson and, most notably, his prominent role in the campaigns to overturn the convictions of the Birmingham Six and the Bridgewater Four, which succeeded in 1991 and 1997 respectively. Foot claimed that the former British intelligence officer, Colin Wallace had been framed, in Northern Ireland during the 1970s, and the collusion between British forces and Loyalist paramilitaries. [3]
Foot took a particular interest in the conviction of Abdel Basset Ali al-Megrahi for the Lockerbie bombing, firmly believing Megrahi to have been a victim of a miscarriage of justice at the Pan Am Flight 103 bombing trial.[4].
He also worked tirelessly, though without success, to gain a posthumous pardon for James Hanratty, who was hanged in 1962 for the A6 murder. A position he maintained even after DNA evidence in 1999 seemed to confirm Hanratty’s guilt.
Thank you anonymous – I too have been doing a bit of digging being intrigued because I got modded.
He was also the son of the last Governor of Cyprus & UK Ambassador to the UN.
Nephew of Michael Foot (that wealthy man who thought adopting the donkey jacket would give him the common touch) and educated at the Independent Shrewsbury School and then Oxford.
Member of the Socialist Workers Party and wrote for the Mirror.
OK I get the picture – another Champagne Socialist.
Anybody know why the Labour Party seems to exclude genuine working class people from representing the working classes? I do believe this trait might be it’s death knell.
If this Paul Foot was such a brilliant investigative journalist how come Robert Maxwell managed to plunder all of the Mirror’s pension found from right under his lefty snout ?
Genuine working class people have got more sense. They think for themselves, and tend to be rather contemptuous of well-heeled champagne socialists.
You would have been modded because you said a magic word not because of the content
He also worked for that bastion of socialism the Sunday Telegraph and spent much of his time at the Eye
He was an investigative jounalist which means his main deteractors were always the government WHATEVER government Labour or Conservative
You stick with the picture Fraser Nelson gives you though as I hear he investigated Blair, Iraq and WMD pretty thoroughly, if by thoroughly we mean poodled along with Blair’s Lies
After all what did a little story like Iraq or the Lies of Blair matter ?
I remember Paul Foot’s writings well, simply because he sought the truth no matter the politics. It is the mark of truly great journalist, particularly an “investigative” one, that his own politics are secondary to the story and that’s where anonymous hits the nail on the head about Foot.
…or you get people like Prezza
altogether now to the tune of the red flag:
The working class can lick my ass
I’ve got the foreman’s job at last.
Nell, I take issue with your comments about PF. My attitude has been modified. I don’t think M F..t cared a fig about what he looked like. As to so called REAL working class people in the labour party I thin k you may have forgotten Mr Prescott, Mr Johnson, etc etc.? It will be wonderful when people can finally forget which class they come from, class envy is still endemic in British society. You’ve only got to listen to George Galloway for a few minutes to hear this.
Paul Foot was a great journalisty/humanitarian/campaign journalist. To label him as a ‘champagne socialist’ is scurrilous to say the least.
The statements on this blog tend to be surprisingly class ridden, bigotted, snide, authoritarian, and far too newlabour!
A person’s humanity is far more important than whether he chooses to drink a glass of champagne.
Totally agree. Liked him the first time I met him.
Big massive feet!
Nelson has one of the sharpest political minds in journalism and I am delighted that he will be leading the Speccie. I hope the excessive reliance upon advertising in the magazine will end – sometimes full pages of the stuff – together with the champagne and cigar-laden party invitations, which only demean a very old and very distinguished journal. Who is the Jeffrey Bernard of 2009? Find him (or her) and get them doing Low Life. Too much of the journalism during D’Ancona’s reign has been light-hearted and trivial. An inspired appointment, methinks!
Jeremy Clarke is a fantastic Lowlife scribe, much better than Jeff ever was. Probably the best writer they have.
Yeah, but is he any better at getting pissed?
Yes Idle, I particularly like Jeremy Clarke. Always an insight in his piece.
Shurley shome mishtake ?
Jeffrey Bernard is unwell
Sorry I am on a learning curve here tonight. To find the opposite of Fraser Nelson, ( sorry he’s a scotsman as gordon has given the scots a really bad name), I have been researching left wing journalism.
Three comments sbout left wing journalism that I find really interesting :-
“Left wing fascism” – I find that hard to understand
“the BBC, the talisman of left wing journalism” – why then are we paying a license fee for biased unbalanced news reporting?
“Left wing journalism is boring and in terminal decline” – well reading the online observor and mirror , as I do regularly since I joined this blog, I agree.
I used to believe that the Beeb and newspapers per se tried to be balanced I now know that is not so.
This is all you need to know:
The Old Curiosity Shop tells the story of Nell, a beautiful and virtuous young girl of ‘not quite fourteen.’ An orphan, she lives with her maternal grandfather (whose name is never revealed) in his shop of odds and ends. Her grandfather loves her dearly, and Nell does not complain, but she lives a lonely existence with almost no friends her own age. Her only friend is Kit, an honest boy employed at the shop, and whom she is teaching to write. Secretly obsessed with ensuring that Nell does not die in poverty as her parents did, her grandfather attempts to make Nell a good inheritance through gambling at cards. He keeps his nocturnal games a secret, but borrows heavily from the evil Daniel Quilp, a malicious, grotesquely deformed, hunchbacked dwarf moneylender. In the end, he gambles away what little money they have, and Quilp seizes the opportunity to take possession of the shop and evict Nell and her grandfather. Her grandfather suffers a breakdown that leaves him bereft of his wits, and Nell takes him away to the Midlands of England, to live as beggars.
nell you seem to be forgetting that any journalism that approaches a subject blatantly from the left or right is pretty much worthless.
real journalists (and there aren’t many still about) follow a story no matter where it leads or whatever light, good or bad, it throws on either left or right politicians.
anything else is thinly disguised opinion masquerading as journalism
Good point. The problem is not so much ‘opinion pieces’ – they are what they say they are – but news reporting, in which objectivity is important if the report is to inform. It is quite in order to express opinion seperately, provided it is made clear where the division is between report and opinion.
All journalists are biased one way or another. Nothing wrong with this – it’s a human trait. As long as a writer declares his bias (Jeremy Clarkson ?) then that is OK by me. What I loath is the Journalist/media outlet pretending to be neutral. The BBC is typical of the type.
fascism in all its forms is left wing authoritarianism
Brown is a fascist dictator, a shit one, but still one
Correct FOF Never forget that NAZI was short for National SOCIALIST Party !
If Ed Bollocks gets a bit bolshy again he will not find himself in a half Nelson or even a full Nelson he will be put in a Fraser Nelson.
Fraser Nelson(verb)-a wrestling move in which someone ignores another’s request for submission. e.g. Remove them comments that call me a liar.(reply) No!
i think i have to visit there and get some town centre campaigning done
Nelson took me to dinner once.
Then he asked me to kiss his hardy.
Was hardy the member with a purple head and one eye?
Yes. I recall he had the Cullen Skink.
Wasn’t it Fraser Nelson who kept pressing Gordon to answer a poignant question about the country’s accounts at a press conference not so long ago?
I’m glad he’s been appointed as Editor of the Speccie. He has a far better understanding of the economy than the Treasury, and now he’ll be able to hold them to account at every opportunity.
Congratulations, Fraser.
Does maguire attend no 10 press conferences?
If he does I bet gordon makes sure he’s on the front row so that he can ask pointed questions about whether gordon had a good rest over his holiday and asking gordon to tell the press pack abour sarah’s charity work.
He works for tha Mirror now innit?
Brings to mind the bridge of the USS Enterprise and beam me up Scotty.
Presscot got beamed up !
They an find the money to reiforce the transporter deck then – the bastards!
Beam me up snotty more like.
D’Ancona wanted McCain as president, so I told him I would cancel my Spectator subscription. He was quite pleasant about it.
Does anyone believe Nelson will be different, and not up the arse of the USA?
I need an excuse to re-subscribe.
Tony
Writing in the Boston Globe , this new left wing journalist, gordon brown, says ted kennedy “was a massive force in bringing peace to Northern Ireland”
gordon also says he will be attending ted kennedy’s funeral on Saturday.
Of course he will .Obama is there. gordon’s not going to miss that photo op!!!
Poor Obama he must dread gordon’s ‘ clinging like a leach act’ at every public opportunity.
“which suggests Dacre’s job is safe”… hahahahahahahahahahaha
dear old Guido. sometimes gets how stuff works; mostly really hasn’t got a fucking clue.
Is that you McSnide?
No, it’s’toilets’ McGuire squire.
Aye it’s that snide Geordie twat areet.
We certainly know how the stuff that you’re taking works.
No its Mr draper
You are a dolly draper hoon BBC ZanuLibore person!!!
I have now bested you with scathing logic
May barefoot contessa discuss the forthcoming american event that gordon plans to attend?
No.
But Why???
Stamps foot. Sulks. Well why can’t she or why cant I??
You have daughters Guido . You understand the psychology of girls and ladies.
You’re very much in a minority on this blog Nell, being female I mean. This blog is good, but is far too homophobic.
Are men frightened of becoming homosexual, are repressed homosexuals, ashamed of being homosexual, or what? I don’t get it.
Guido understands the psychology of ‘girls and ladies’? I think not. He may understand the psychology of men, who knows? It’s his blog after all, and you have to set up your own blog if you want to do exactly what you like.
Explain, what is this American event that Gordon plans to attend?
A Dead Kennedy’s reunion concert
Why: Do Women Look Forward To Experimenting With Theis Sexuallity?
it’s the WORDS nell not the content
look for the most likely trigger words and avoid them or change them
gordon
ted kennedy
memorial
wants to be close to obama beach
reflected glory
there you go!!!!
Nell. I’ve lost the plot here. What about the useful thread you started re the BBC.
Nice one Guido, you’ve modded the name n ell!!!!!!!
Mr Nelson seems a good chap
In other news day 3 of what in this household is known as “bathgate” , The council workers that was to come and finish my bathroom today , I waited and waited .
So after the 3 days that we where told it would take they have taken the wooden panals off .
Labour always wasting other peoples money
I dont know how to put this but read
http://www.irfanahmed.org/2009/08/is-it-time-obama-met-nick-clegg.html
Found on Iain Dales blog
He only wanted to know if he had fucked his ex wife.
Why not , everyone else has
General Sir Richard Dannatt retired today.
Friends said he was looking forward to the last meeting with Kev*n Jon*s to ask who was circulating stories about Sir Richard being ” a c+++ and a complete b++++d, who inflated his expenses, and sought a peerage from the tories” ( I hope he gets it – He’d be a tremendous addition to the HoL.)
I wonder what kevan is going to do in his next life?
Benefits loafer?!!
General Sir Richard Dannatt I am looking forward to your Memoirs.
I have seen some debates in the house of lords , they are so much more grown up and the goverment are held to account
Think was an honorable he’d be cmpared to Lords uddin, taylor and the rest ??
Not all are crooks , There are some very intelligent people in there ( more than in the comons )
Yes but are any of the honorable one’s labour?
There are a few , I think the goverment has been defeted more times in the lords under this administration , which shows a active house and good for us
It’s a disgusting slur to impune the House of Lords and the most Honourable members within!
Lord Archer your not the worst , but you are a hoon and a crimanl hoon at that
Metropolitan Police are apparently currently investigating four members of the House of lords for suspected expenses claims – Uddin, Sheldon ,Clarke and Hanningford.
I believe I am right in saying they are all labour??
Not sure if all are labour , There are so many its hard to keep up
I see Mr Murdoch has something to say about the bbc
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/industry_sectors/media/article6814178.ece
Little Murdoch jnr has attacked the BBC let the Guido blogging of it and the hysteria begin!
Mr brown wished he stayed on holiday
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1209651/Gordon-Brown-pressure-Lockerbie-bomber-Gaddafi-son-reveals-prisoner-swap-deal-WAS-linked-oil.html
James Murdoch has tonight said that the ’state funded’ distorted journalism of the BBC threatens plurality (ie freedom of speech). Couldn’t agree more.
Dave – hope you’re listening!!
Time to abandon the license fee and cast the BBC adrift.!
Posted link at 126
I fully expect Dave to anounce that tomorrow
Call me Dave’s number one priority must be to dismantle the BBC.
I find it nauseating and suffocating that its all pervasive soft left influence is everywhere. It’s in the doctor’s surgery, on every news channel, in the local garage, in shops etc etc. You can’t get away from it. It is truly evil.
There are no other Radio Stations left they’ve all been overcome by the Monolithic Beeb with its awful soft unctuous self satisfied tones with which numbs the minds of the populace.
I hate the BBC even more than Brown himself if that’s possible
I dont beowuff , the bbc has one good point , The daily politics
Unlike brown he has zero good points
But even the Daily Politics is all wet.
It’s nothing like the stuff on Fox News.
It just sounds like folk from the Guardian in their lunch break.
Adrew neil is ok its the hoons he has to interview , Got glenn beck on at the moment he is crazy and funny
OK You’re right there are some good things on the Beeb. It’s just its total suffocation of all other media and its own Guardianview of the World that’s so awwfuul.
Yes the British public would be delighted to see FOX News replace the BBC
Hahahahahahaa!!! fucking brilliant!
The Boy Dave should be looking for some serious pay back once he gets in. All those anti-tory stories, the sucking up to Blair and Brown, the labour = good, conservative = bad ethos. Time to kick BBC arse, Dave…will you have the bottle? Or will you be restrained by all the luvvies and your wet liberal chums like Polly?
Murdoch jnr was spot on…at last…someone who talks sense in the media, even if it was for his own vested interests.
I do not like what the BBC has metamorphasised into , but I have a little caution over completely profit motivated television , how would you stop a corporation making a biased series about its products ??
the way they think it will go will be on demand pay per view if so then the BBC would be producing TV and not controlling it , would SKY have made Attenbroughs natural history epics i think not . The BBc are just about hanging in for Local news which is vital , when you look at ITV it can no longer demand the advertising revenue and so produces rubbish programs and its news is failing .
The BBc perhaps has gone down some expensive and expansive avenues as well as waisiting money on champagne labour luvvies projects , downloading/streaming may well be the future , guido thinks national papers cant hold up .
It could turn TV into more junk , sex, drama hyped stories for the selling you stuff .
what about educational TV ??
There is so much of it its hard to pick out anything of worth , should you see olympics for free or national football teams play live ??
Its the technology that will force the changes of the BBC and that suggests pay per view , with much less free content , and them withdrawing from the sports bidding arena and other turbo charged markets
Murdoch also said
“Mr Murdoch, who is also the chief executive of BSkyB, 39.1 per cent owned by News Corp, made clear that he believed that broadcasters such as Sky should be freed from the long-standing requirement to produce impartial news.
He argued that “the mere selection of stories and their place in the running order is itself a process full of unacknowledged partiality”. The impartiality rule was “an impingement on the freedom of speech”.
If isn’t impartial, it stops being news and it becomes something else.
Or maybe Murdoch thinks that everybody should stop pretending that news coverage is impartial because it isn’t, and it can’t be.
We’ll see how happy ickle Muroch is when Virgin and all the rest finally get let into his Pay-TV monopoly and the Sports broadcasts are opened up and subject to the same monopoly rules
Without his father the young Murdoch would have been a nothing. His father thought he could rule the entire world’s media. Now he’s learning that he can’t. Let’s hope that his empire is on the wane.
Does this mean that the wet D’Ancona is out of a job, or is he still all powerfull behind the scenes at the LabourGraph ?
I like this Fraser character he seems to tell it as it is with tendencies to be a proper Conservative.
Perhaps he can help to steer CmD away from his middle of the road, easy listening, policy free, daydream.
Nell. Please can you get back to the BBC thing. I don’t understand the rest of this stuff
The tories and the BBC clashed today over the pay of BBC celebrities.
The BBC refused to publish details of individual salaries even though it is acknowledged they are paid by taxpayers.
The BBC says (rather desperately) that the publication of the ‘ salaries of talent will destroy the market’ (what rubbish!!)
Enjoy whilst it lasts BBC – because next year it will be gone !
Let’s hope they are at least modified to something very different and that all the creepy types on the Toady Prog and the Five O’clock PM thing are escorted to the streets.
Now it really is time for Cocoa
You people are really dreaming if you think CMD will pose any sort of threat to the BBC. Once in power he will be their paymaster – and will use them to his advantage as Liebour do now. The system is rotten, and Dave is not the answer. I remember before the American elections, telling some American ladies that they were naive if they thought Obama, if elected would deliver on his promise to withdraw his troops from Iraq. They thought I was being cynical.
Don’t get me wrong, I think Dave is a nice guy – its just that the country does not need a nice guy in times of danger. My 2p’s worth.
What the hell are people expecting from the tories? It will be a case of plus ca change. If they stop the growth of a surveillance society, put an end to id cards, cameras, etc. improve state education, keep a hold on extraneous jobs in the NHS but support their core values, and keep a hold on immigration that will do, because newlabour are incapable, or unwilling to do any of these things.
“The BBC will be gone”
Of course it will! won’t it widdwle diddums yes it will, yes it will, yes it willy will
Except it won’t. Who are these headcases ?
Dave is no more going to dump the BBC than He’s going to dump the NHS or he’s going to take a dump on Mark Oaten live at PMQ’s.
Just because the usual suspects love working themselves into an amusing spittle flying frenzy hysteria about the BBC doesn’t mean it’s ever going to be scrapped. You appear to be mistaking a commonly held subject of hatred on this site for reality.
Dave also knows the BBC is far more useful where it is for him to pacify his more rabid supporters. Same with Maggie she always used it as a tool. If anything you do is a complete fuckup, blame the BBC! Easy as that. It’ll please the cheapseats & distract from the problems. Even Campbell knew that much.
It’s like Abortion is for the Republicans
You make a few disparaging noises about it to stir up the extremists into giving you support but you certainly don’t ever say you will scrap abortion to the public at large if you want to get elected and once you get in power you do nothing to change it as the population as a whole would boot you out were you to try it for real. It’s far more valuable as an issue to stir up support from the more excitable fringes of the Party every 4 years.
You don’t need to like it but the public trusts the BBC far more than Politicians particularly after the Expenses piggery. You know they do.
When Cameron announces or puts in his manifesto anything resembling the scrapping of the BBC I might entertain some of this hysteria but until then it’s complete bullshit and for those with a long memory it’s the same old stuff.
It must be time for Cocoa and medication.
Good for Fraser, always a decent bloke telling it as he see’s it, even if he treads on everyone’s toes.
Sorry Horlicks time.
Good Night God Bless.
I feel guilty that we haven’t talked about our lads in Afghanistan tonight.
Please God Keep you all safe.
What a pleasure to see the back of Matthew d’Ancona. Thank you for this news. The worst editor the Speccie has ever had. Now what’s the real scoop about the precipitous decline in the magazine’s quality over the last few months?
Is Fraser the scottish one who sounds like he’s using designer snot to block his nose?
I like Fraser; he always seems to use common sense, reason, and facts in his arguments, and pushes politicians who refuse to use those things (especially Brown), and he always tells it like it is.
Whenever I’ve heard him being interviewed, he’s also been incredibly good at taking what can be a very complex situation, and explaining it in a concise way that everyone understands but without dumbing it down and without losing half the relevant facts while explaining it (which is a very rare skill in the media).
If there were some (or, at least 1 for a start) people like him at the BBC then I’d be more than happy to pay my license fee.
Well done mate.
Brown Nose Award or what?
Oh Fraser, gosh you are soooo wonderful…
Listen me old mucker, Anonymous or not, nobody is that perfect.
Neo-Cons are that perfect. Even when they are wrong they are right.
Agree, concerning Fraser and the desperate shortage of journalists like him on the BBC.
The other major issue is that the BBC is a Total State Monopoly. Of course it behaves as it does, given its guaranteed position.
I don’t really want to do away with the BeeB, but its dominant position must be reduced in order to provide economic space for other broadcasters.
It is extremely unhealthy for Britain to allow the BBC to continue as it is.
Let’s hope Call me Dave develops some balls to make some changes, though like many others I’m not too hopeful that ‘Blair’s Air’ is going to do anything meaningful.
Is it possible to have a nice appreciation of the new Baron of Springburn. The ex Speaker Martin.
Thank you.
Mick’s new monicker is now ‘The Rt Hon the Baron Martin of Springburn, of Port Dundas in the City of Glasgow’
“Springburn was the name of Mr Martin’s Glasgow North East constituency before boundary reorganisation in 2005, while Port Dundas is the site of a large whisky distillery in the city(!!!!!!!!!).”
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1209809/Lord-Gorbals-Michael-Martins-controversial-peerage-confirmed-middle-Parliamentary-recess.html
Ye see yon birkie (dandy) ca’d ‘a lord’,
Wha struts, an’ stares, an’ a’ that?
Tho’ hundreds worship at his word,
He’s but a cuif (fool) for a’ that,
For a’ that, an’ a’ that,
His ribband, star, an’ a’ that,
The man o’ independent mind,
He looks an’ laughs at a’ that.
Heard he was a bit thick
http://wrinkledweasel.blogspot.com/search?q=fraser+nelson
McMental
You one eyerd arsehole
I and many others dont wish to see public spending rise
Here is the clue, unlike yourself we are the poor sods that pay for it.
JUST FUCK OFF
Without lack of due respect, d’Ancona did not do a great job at the Speccie. I mostly like the magazine and the coffee house blog is great but like the NS it seems that the online offering might be busy revealing that the best content would stand on its own and the rest is probably dross.
But if it works then nobody will be able to say that Nelson has never run a proper business. Good luck, m’lad!
Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.
- Oscar Wilde.
Could Chuck Him In With Micheal Jackson, And Save On A Skip !
I working in London this week so hopefully I’ll run down a few Labourites during my stay. How many points do I get?
I like Fraser a lot. He talks a hell of a lot of common sense.
But when he speaks, why does he sound like some creature manifested at a seance?
Hell’s bells, for someone who’s “no Cameroon”, I shudder to think what hagiography Nelson would write about Dave if he actually were. The d’Ancona Speccie has been bland, in my view, but then Boris was a tough act to follow. Nelson is even blander, but let’s cut the lad some slack and see what he comes up with. I would have liked Peter Oborne to have been given a go.
D’Ancona’s last editorial, in this week’s Spectator, is a sycophantic puff-job on the late Senator Kennedy, who is described as “Rabelaisian. ” Which might be one way of referring to that gross, IRA-supporting piece of filth.
The editorial is headed “RIP Senator.” Perhaps “RIP D’Ancona as Editor” may be regarded as equally good news.
Does Matthew D’Ancona now have the same girlfriend as Taki used to squeeze so he will have Kate’s top tips for happiness as the Standard always seems to quote to us