Stagnant Staggers Struggles for Staffers
With job openings in journalism a rarity these days, with newspapers laying off staff left right and centre, graduate schemes having thousands of applicants for one place and talk of not paying interns laughed out of the media world, you would think the post of assistant editor to a once prestigious and well read magazine would have the applications flooding in. Not at this dying magazine though…
The New Statesman have had to extend the application process for their assistant editor, presumably because of a lack of interest or quality hats thrown in the ring. Who wouldn’t want to be responsible for the dirth of talent at the struggling magazine?
With such cutting edge insight from the Political Editor Mehdi Hasan such as “The next Labour leader will be called Miliband“ and the renowned “Mr Scoop” himself, James Macintyre on board, the job would be a breeze, just watch out for those writs. With circulation rapidly heading for rock bottom – just the libraries that subscribe – perhaps those budding lefty hacks have realised the Staggers is a place to end your career rather than start it…
UPDATE: Mehdi got in touch to insist that he is not the Political Editor but the Senior Editor (Political). If that is the only part of the story he could find to refute then things were worse than Guido thought….
Its only fit for shit roll !
Balls for Labour Leade.. oh he’s last
Too shiny and not absorbent enough – smears shite all over yer arse.
I’m free!
I’m not.
I’m £40,000
I’m four.
You’re all benders.
I wonder if Snotty’s applied yet.
Only the Labour party will protect you from the Tories , We will not let you down .
Only Labour will fight for fairness and for your Tax credits , Remember it was the Tory bankers and Mrs Thatcher that caused this mess.
Only Labour will invest in the future The Tories will cut investment , There will be no new schools and class sizes will grow , Your childrens education is under threat from the Tories .
The Tories are starting a class war with no mandate , They will bring back fox hunting and have no respect for animal rights .
The Tories are soft on terror after voting against 90 days pre-chage detenion .The Tories will roll back the state and leave you on your own .
Yeah, we read your shite on the last three fucking threads.
Fuck off.
Oi, who the fuck do you think you are?
YOU fuck off!
YOU fuck off wanker
you can’t even take the piss with any style but have to copy others badly
pot + kettle
Don’t cry ffs.
Another tat dump.
I really feel sorry for you.
you’re the one constantly pining and wanking over your twatty little boyfriend Tat.
I think the entire world pities you for being that pathetic.
Sorry, you had 13 years to get it right. 13 years – unlucky for us eh
Yea go on then Labourlist! You’re not Sally fish bucket are you?
I resemble that remark
> The Tories are starting a class war
Projecting again? The people who start class wars are Marxists. It seems that Cutting the leech classes away from parasiting on the productive is somehow declaring war on them.
dey iz commeenazimarxists innits !? ! fuud goes in mowth ? ?!? ?
To quote bruva Ahmed TDT PBUH you is ignorant like animals , innit?
Jihad of the pen. He’s a slow jihadist, same goals as the fast ones.
And you can’t oppose him; that would be racist.
Submit, kufr losers.
“Prepare to be assimilated.”
Bruv, in the Caliphate Jihad was 2% pen 98% violent, innit?
Bastards.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-10856352
Whilst I fully agree with your characterisation and erudite summary; I feel I should, perhaps in the spirit of young Nelson from the Simpson’s state my glee at this story. That a Kinnock is being fucked up the arse, in public, that their careers are fucked, finished, ended, disgusted by those that have met them, odious, sanctimonious, money grabbing, venal, hypocitical, impotent, crass, dispicable, vulgar, distasteful, selfish, arrogant, ambitious, incapable and fucking stupid and now consigned to the gutter where they naturally reside; well, it’s kinda cheered me up a bit. Thankyou.
Blimey, Dick, say what you think, why don’t you?
Had a chum at 6th form who went to the Sheffield gig in 1992 and he came back so full of beans, so enthused & fired up – hee hee. I’d like to think that Kinnock, being rejected by the Great British public would sometimes cry, mourn in the wee small hours to Glennis but then, a fleeting thought becomes apparent that they are the richest political dynasty of the last 13 years of corrupt mismanagement by Labour. The Kinnocks don’t give a monkeys but have raped the tax-payer more so than any clan. Yeah, not a fan.
‘e’s a working class ‘ero, ‘e is.
Like Prescott.
Fat cat bank bonuses basher by day.
Fat cat bank investor by night.
The filthy Stephen was delivered from Glenys’ stinking loins. He and his vile wife are going to be turned into dog food.
http://www.icenews.is/index.php/2010/08/05/sdp-leader-ends-summer-holiday-to-face-storm-over-husband%E2%80%99s-taxes/
Dick, well done. Swiftian, old chap.
I wouldn’t mind committing a big and sloppy error with that lady.
That would involve stirring the toxic Kinnock custard.So,no.
Hand job, then?
Alright.
Mind and eye bleach please? Oh, and a brillo pad for my occipital lobe.
Sloppy. He should decide where he lives. bloody basic stuff.
Interesting that one isn’t allowed to buy a house in Danemark, I would have thought that was against EU law.
I thought that was strange, too. Surely the report isn’t missing some salient facts?
Their circulation will increace by 1
We love it !
Hi , My names Tim Lovejoy and i am a BBC legend who does read The New statsman . I thank you
Why do people on this blog keep referring to Tim Lovejoy?
What has he done to be of such interest?
He reads the New Statesman – that’s fucking interesting innit?
And I’m a fucking LEGEND!!
Please pay attention
it’s a twat being emabarrassing
Agree whole-heartedly ‘zzzzzzzzzzz’
From EPL websire;
‘Over the weekend, the BBC gave football fans the length and breadth of the world the news that they’d waited years to hear. Finally, after 13 years of clueless ramblings, smug arrogance and a frighteningly poor knowledge of the game he professes to love, Tim Lovejoy is to be booted off as a regular presenter of 5 Live’s 6-0-6 football phone in show. A variety of failed shows on a multitude of channels have yet to deflate the ego of this man of football who’s speciality is replacing the idiot who stands next to you in the pub.’
Enough said, you do not need to know any more
I thought it was my turn to be the legendary Tim Lovejoy today.
We’re all going down the fucking toilet whilst contemplating our navels. We haven’t exactly covered ourselves in glory over the past thirteen years. We sucked on New Labia’s teat and look where it has got us.
Nobody is buying our shit any more, nobody gives a flying turd whether we sink or swim. Our advertisers are cutting their budgets.
We’re an incestuous bunch too. Frankly we deserve everything we get.
Why the fuck was that modded FFS?
Modded for the word t*urd, try it and see.
Why t*rd FFS?
turd seems unlikely.
Beats me
Could you just save us the bother and print the Stoadspersons Obit every month Fawkes? you do? oh well…
Only the Labour party will protect you from the Tories , We will not let you down .
Only Labour will fight for fairness and for your Tax credits , Remember it was the Tory bankers and Mrs Thatcher that caused this mess.
Only Labour will invest in the future The Tories will cut investment , There will be no new schools and class sizes will grow , Your childrens education is under threat from the Tories .
The Tories are starting a class war with no mandate , They will bring back fox hunting and have no respect for animal rights .
The Tories are soft on terror after voting against 90 days pre-chage detenion .The Tories will roll back the state and leave you on your own .
The Tories will cut taxes and let you spend your own money instead of the state , This is agaisnt the mandate of the country . The voters wanted more tax and more spending . The Tories want to stop immigraton , Again against the wishes of the voters , The voters want immigration and all the benifits it gives, Shrai law, Hounor killings, Arranged marriges , Whole comunites where whites cant go , whole comunities that dont speak english , Only Labour can bring you the benifits of immigration .
Sorry for the comment earlier ‘Labourlist’ – just realised you were winding us up!
James Spacintyre and Medhi’cation’ Hassan should be thrown into an inspection pit with a pry-bar each and be forced to fight to the death.
O/T Mr Pump but inadvertently clicking on your moniker led me to this:
http://pickuptheballs.com/
Facinating stuff.
Lol! Nice one TT.
Fascinating indeed, i wondered what that vietnamese guy was doing driving a buggy up and down the local driving range.
Now i know.
LOL, licky licky!
Where’s the blog tatifilarious?
I will apply for the vacancy.
Sod Ed Balls I’m right behind Ed Miliband for Labour leader
There’s always room in the modern Labour Party for a bit of window dressing.
“dressing”? “licking”, surely.
You can see Bevied Ellie’s new book here
Very good but I thought Mandlesons book should have been called
“The Third Chump”
oooh I do like bananas
Ellie can I shag you?
I could do this job , It would be easy for someone with my talents .
who are you again?
That’s a question my constituents would ask of me……..
….if I was ever in my constituency!
Ker-ching!!!!
Death
Walls and Ben and Jerry’s are already preparing writs for McIntyre.
Stoned and dont care .
I dont really care
has anyone seen nick’s dildo?
here i am !
I think he lost it somewhere when he slipped over and fell awkwardly onto the Dyson.
who gives a shit ?
If you find out let me know
[...] Stagnant Staggers Struggles for Staffers [...]
Very nearly alliterative!
Hassan is an utter twat. His appearance on Question Time was a disgrace. The typical far left wanker, he just shouted for an hour and the morons in the “balanced” audience kept applauding him.
I balance the audience
Audience = bused-in Labour shills and effnix.
Been like it for years.
They transport effnix in too.
To AlJaBeebya The narrative is more important than the truth.
After seeing their great editor on BBC Question Time and knowing the awful Mirror Macintyre’s there, any wonder they are struggling?
The New Statesman
The Same Old Politics
Mehdi’s an idiot. His appearance on Question Time was a disgrace. Typical of the far left, he just shouted for an hour and the morons in the “balanced” audience kept applauding him.
I sent them my CV but got no reply
CV
Lays on couch
drinks super lager
Eats chips
Smokes fags
Grunts
Farts
Cashes giro
I can’t understand it I thought I had all the right credentials for a rag like that.
I think the reason is that you forgot the following
a) pop down bookies to place bet.
b) rant like an idiot on the guardian website about any tory policy
Guido is not on Stagnants Bogroll despite the fact that order-order is one of the most popular blogs at the moment. Nice one Guido, it appears you have touched a nerve.
I’ll cope.
I think the Taliban are great. If you disagree, you’re a right wing reactionary.
I have to admit it was not the Taliban that robbed me by cheating on expenses.
No, it was me! You paid to have my dry rot repaired. Tee-hee. New Labour: a future fair for all!
Do try harder Fawkes
We likes the New Statesmans. It supportings us in our claim for new ten bedrooms house and much many benefits. We also likings it called StatesMAN and not woman because in our culture we hatings the woman. Death to your country. Thanks you please.
You are David Miliband and I claim, etc.
Silence, Infidels!
I’m still here. And I’ll always be here. Now and forever and forever.
You are Gordon Brown, I claim my £10.
Oi, Guido why am I being moderated ALL the time?
The lizards are monitoring you. Put your tinfoil hat on.
No, Prescott is writing for the NS now. He’s the girth of talent.
Bought an paid fuh m’lad (by you…)
It’s photoshop, eye bleach may be required.
http://t3.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:SHbXH3vB05A2OM:http://www.backingblair.co.uk/images/john_prescott.jpg&t=1
“Mind the windows Tino “
@ Thanks simple, I can take my tinfoil hat off now. I think it may be because I have been a bit mischievous recently.
They need to liven up the NS with some decent sports coverage, some celeb stories, an appropriately diverse variety of totty and beefcake and a problems page. “Dear Parent’s Sibling Leslie/ey – I say that Chomsky is at heart an anarcho-syndicalist but my boyfriend claims he is a revisionist Gramscian. Should I give in on this point just to please him?”
Hoity toity
Try sucking his cock for a change.
Page 3 – a hefty lass with a crew-cut and Doc Martins. That should grab the lesbian readership.
A Miliband is going to win the next labour leadership or one is going to buy it!
I hear you can get monkeys to do anything for bananas.
If you pay peanuts you get monkeys.
Perhaps that’s where the Staggers is going wrong.
Oh, and having no readers.
Good lord, just heard Gracie Fields is dead
Here is some late cricket news:
W G Grace is dead.
My advice is put some tits and bums on page 3, celeb gossip on pages 4, 5 and 6, and fill the rest up with sport and TV if you want to drive up circulation figures.
Erudite.You can stick words together with it,only 99p a jar
We went to a wife swapping party last night. Car keys in a bowl – that sort of thing.
One woman caught my eye – blonde, mid 30s, high heels, short dress and huge tits.
Couldn’t believe it when she picked out my keys.
I sat there with my tongue hanging out as she seductively wiggled over to me, pressed a hot mouth against my ear and said “I am NOT fucking any man who drives a Nissan Micra.”
+++LATE NEWS+++
William the Bastard, Duke of Normandy, has landed near Hastings.
He’ll be mugged by smackheads within the hour.
ROFSMLO
(Rolling On Floor Screaming My Lungs Out) – because there’s an arrow lodged in my brain, or something.
Oh bugger. Just when I’ve had to nip off for a bit of business with those Vikings. You wait ages for an invasion and then two come along at once.
He’s to late we already apologised for the Norman Invasion.
Pay up Pompy, Pompy pay up
The spuds on the left side of my field are rotten,this proves the left are no good and will corrupt
start the car
Is the road clear
Talking of struggling staffers what happened to young Waterson? Was he really that bad or is he just another victim of tory economic policies?
In your dreams, Sunshine.
He’s busy muck raking.
Piss off and enjoy your holiday, Fawkes. Leave us window-lickers to it for a change.
“enjoy your holiday”
From what exactly?
That is a relief. I was worried when he disappeared from the website after sending out that begging letter. Assuming he has managed to rustle up the train fare to Yorkshire he should look at the election video produced in support of one of the candidates and see whether it was declared.
maybe no one wants a job with the corrupt mainstream shits
“Mainstream shits”? – they’re ALL shits.
first again
When my client moved into your former residence you indicated that there had been a problem for many years with the neighbours at number 11.
I am delighted to inform you that whatever the problem was, it seems to have been resolved.
We are waiting for the state to pull the plug on housing benefit,which soon they will not have the funds to pay,then we will buy all the property back at a tenth of the value,buy to let us have you in debt was the plan from the off suckers
what the fuck? this was joined up to a reply a few minutes ago,sort your site out Fawkes its a fucking mess.
You do all love me right ?
Pompy fc to fold ?
HMRC are not happy that the CVA proposed would give the players and agents 100% and themselves just a percentage…………………….
Just another reminder that the players are bigger than the club,founded in 1898 it survived many recessions and slumps but the premierships ethos of permanent boom/goldrush wage inflation screwed it.The premiership is a mirror to the UKs budget,every future penny of earnings is promised to some spoilt bastard or other.Portsmouth will be first of many
13 million not acounted for in tax , Just heard
velly good,another one for us
We’re all in it together.
Right in it.
Guido give us a wave , Guido Guido give us a wave !
Dirth, the state between birth and death. It’s a grim business, but we cope with it somehow.
I have not had sex with any women .
I got 2 A levels in domestic seance and woodwork. I kant spel but they are considerin my aplikation.
Domestic seance is a very useful skill. We’ve being trying to reach Comrade Stalin here at Victoria St. for ages, without luck.
Give us a call.
Dirth? Dearth
Glad you spotted it too. If Guido’s going to slag off their journalism, he should get his bloody spelling right.
I actually think Macintyre’s blog is not bad. He has no taste in politicians, but he’s got a bit of depth otherwise.
Perhaps the Speccie will give him a job
One day only offer: handjobs for only a tenner each! Come get a hand shandy from a bona fide champagne socialist!
HMRC lose case againt Portsmouth fc
I feel pretty! Oh so pretty! I feel pretty and witty and bright!
I see exam results are at a record high for the umpteenth year on the trot. The Dellusion continues !
Pompey win latest survival battle
Portsmouth have won the latest round of their survival battle after the tax authorities failed in an appeal over the club’s Company Voluntary Agreement.
The proposed agreement would help the club to come out of administration by organising payment to its debtors.
HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) wanted it blocked, calling it “unfair and seriously flawed” as it gave preference to football creditors.
Portsmouth’s lawyers said the club faced extinction if it lost the case.
I do think the brain quickly stagnates when a person persists in reading left wing twaddle.
slurp
Vote Labour.
If you’re a twat.
“…the dirth of talent …”
Write out 100 times ‘the dearth of talent’ and have it on my desk by 9 am.
If anyone needs a copy they give the NS away for free in the Air Algerie lounge at Heathrow.
Thanks for the nudge
I’ve applied
Best
Steve
Stranger things have happened what will it be next the PM job up for grabs!