Queen Guardianista Takes On Daily Mail’s Dacre
Get ringside seats for a great commentariat celebrity death match in the offing: Dame Liz Forgan, queen of leftie arts luvvies and head Guardianista, versus Paul Dacre, editor of the Daily Mail. Forgan, who chairs the Arts Council, has taken tremendous exception to being mocked last week by the Mail’s Quentin Letts.
She has duly had her Arts Council flunkeys write a legal threat to the Mail advising them that she is going to the Press Complaints Commission and that she was tempted to sue for libel because Letts’s piece “bordered on defamation”. The thing that really got Forgan angry was Letts’s description of Forgan’s “multicultural nomenklatura”. The Arts Council’s letter to the PCC, sent by the Council’s solicitor Sarah Bailey, asserts that this broke the editors’ code that the ethnicity of any individual should not be identified. It demands that Dacre and Letts issue “sincere and personal apologies” to the entire Arts Council board and senior management team for suggesting that they might have been token appointments who won their jobs on anything but open competition.
Part of Forgan’s case seems to be that she herself is not responsible for senior appointments at the Arts Council. This, Guido understands, has caused cackling laughter in the office of Culture Secretary Jeremy Hunt. His aides remember the terrible battle Forgan fought to try to stop the ex-Evening Standard editor Veronica Wadley becoming an Arts Council member.
Letts, on hearing that the Arts Council claims that his piece was “grossly offensive”, responds: “I certainly hope it did border on defamation, because, by definition, that means it was not defamation. Did I intend to be rude to Dame Liz and her Guardian-loving friends at the Arts Council? You betcha!” Guido just wonders how much the Arts Council pays its solicitor Sarah Bailey for this sort of work. The taxpayer-bloated Keynes-founded Arts Council is surely a body devoted to freedom of artistic expression. How does it square that with legalistic bullying of hacks?
Where’s Billy?
She Probably didn’t think much of the photograph.
I am No.2.
Keep paying the tax suckers, I need more and more.
Good man. If he has upset the arts council then he is in the right.
How to sort out this mess. Remove ALL taxpayer support for the “arts council”.
Why do the arts think it is right to rape taxpayers to keep them in business? If the arts can’t stay in business without taxpayers money, then fold. Other businesses don’t get subsidies, so sod the arts!
@upshitcreek Other businesses don’t get subsidy? How about the bank bail out?
Thats where socailisim failed the free market.
Who bailed the useless banks? Step forward the useless Labour party. You scratch my back old chum and everyone knows the rest.
Well, shows what side of the argument Snot is on for the “Impecunious pensioner” or “Unemloyed youth from Brixton” who is NOT interested in subsidising modern dance, and all the millions of tax payers that who are also NOT interested in modern dance or quasi Marxest cockwaffel, he faild to mention.
To one he gives uninterupted leading questions, to the other he interupts, barks at and hassels.
Perhaps Snot’s worried about them taking away his (bbc) lefty news funding.
Perhaps, instead of massive tax breaks for making experimental art, that the successful art exhibits and plays, and musicals and films, should have their profits taxed at a much higher rate instead, with the money raised, ring-fenced to go into the arts grass-roots.
Or do those multi-millionaire film makers not like the sound of having their own profits hit to support the grass-roots? They would rather it be funded from general taxation taking money away from schools and hospitals and the police?
All the millionaire luvvies and film-makers that protested having the film council closed saying that it made a profit…. Well they should put their own money where there mouths are and create their own…. After all, it will make them a tidy profit won’t it and good luck to them. Then if they are wrong, the tax-payer will not be picking up the tab.
Methinks a Tobin tax on art works shouldn’t distort the market too much (or disturb it particularly).
And nothing too heterosexist like “Romeo and Juliet”
YAWN YAWN YAWN
Tearing them away from the public teat was never gonna be easy.
That’s because most of them couldn’t earn a living without public subsidy.
Wasn’t Forgan head of 5 live?
Wonder how many of the luvvies are leaving instead of moving to Manchester? – they had to decide by the end of last week.
But who the fuck is “Dame” Liz Forgan, A panto-panty drag artiste?
Any connection between the Arts Council, and art, is purely coincidental. All these socialist arts luvvies are interested in are the free lunches and champaigne junkets that they attend every time that something opens, with “Arts” in its title.
This is gonna be fun. A leftie in high dudgeon about the loss of their huge entitlement to our fucking money, is a sight to behold.
Not so fast. They’re still getting a big pot of cash to dispense with as they see fit just not quite the size of before.
Killling this quango would have been the preferred option.
It’s been said that 90% of genuine artists working and earning their living through their art receive no support whatever from the Arts Council. The latter refuse to accept figurative art in any shape or form. Britain has some stunningly good figurative artists doing exceptional work, but you wouldn’t know it if you followed the Arts Council’s somewhat dodgy showcasing.
There are also significant areas of the arts world that have little time for the Council as they are seen as overbearing, officious, meddling arsehats who have their own preferences for funding and self indulgence.
Let them squeal, no-one goes to their vandalised Chekhov plays and no-one is listening to them now either.
Quite right, tell it like it Andante!
Forgan was, of course, Benenden educated, so must try even harder to be seen as one of the multicultural crowd!
Dunno, you tend to find these parasites will happily steal your cash with absolutely fuck all intention of using their own. So indolently typical of the charlatans, scrotes and hypocrites that gravitate toward this drivel.
Aren’t they all. There’s something about these socially conscious, public school educated leftys that has me reaching for my trusty machete.
Another part of the grand deception. DC and his trusty coalition have given a high priority to preserving the out of control quango money pit. They are even creating new ones to waste yet more money.
I look forward to the ‘Office of Fair Access’ – a social engineering quango brought to you by your friendly neighbourhood Tory led govt.
BTW put April 6th in your diary – the new anti white, male legislation becomes effective making it legal to take ‘positive action’ in favour of minorities. Still glad you voted Tory?
This would be the Labour led legislation I presume?
Stupid woman should shut her trap and get her tits out.
On second thought, though, best not.
The media is so poor at reporting real events, they create petty battles of their own, which are of nil significance and merely inflate their already overblown egos yet further. This is a battle between nonentities of nil significance, who are unable to come to terms with their complete irrelevance.
If the media wants to be respected, then please can they get it that Britain has been bounced into yet another war against a country that presented nil threat to our citizens or our territory, and which demonstrates that Cameron is as sold out to the Bushes as Blair was, and Obama is. Our media is absolutely pathetic that while we send yet more of our young men to die in increasingly pointless wars, all they can talk about is themselves and their relationship/orientation to bureaucratic ethnic selection procedures.
Send them all off to the bin, and get a fresh load in, if any of their jobs are actually needed, that is, which of course they aren’t. They can take their petty lawyers and their pathetic threats and rot in the unemployment office where they belong.
Another one putting their head above the parapet to tell us how rotten the bbc now is
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1372559/Left-wing-shallow-oh-politically-correct–verdict-BBC-Michael-Buerk.html
Agree completely with comments about lawyers. Too many lefties with fuck all left to do. Bloody over-paid useless shits.
Petty battles, inflated and overblown egos are pretty much our raison d’etre.
And totty….
Maybe Guido, but there are real issues that need to be dealt with, which the media avoid like the plague, such as what the government is really up to going into Libya. I agree the punters are more into the petty battles and the overblown egos, but hell someone’s got try.
Something to do with a UN resloution about enforcing a no-fly zone , But thats justa guess.
..because that’s what they tell you in the media and you swallow it whole. Libya presents no threat to Britain. Yet our Prime Minister rushes off to the United Nations to declare war. A no fly zone is a war, with people killed on the ground. Yet it’s all presented as a neat bureaucratic manoeuvre, a clean and clinical intervention. Didn’t we learn anything from Iraq?
The UN is presented as the city of peace and loving people. It is a totalitarian state, crushing democracy and the independence of nations across the globe. Its Agenda 21 and Habitat 2 define our futures yet most people have never heard of them.
Enforcing a ‘no fly zone’ by arming the insurgents, attacking infrastructure and government ground troops? How many civillians have been killed by our bombs and missiles? The MSM are very coy about that side of the story.
Ok I agree to a point , But Mad Dog threatend to go door to door and murder civillions , should we have done nothing ? At least we got UN backing .
hear what you are saying Tapestry but disagree with your appraisal of the rationale for us being involved. This libyan scenario does not having anything close to a ‘Blairesque’ fingerprint on it.
ooh UN backing i am so very pleased that we are borrowing money to drop bombs on some desert and justified in doing so because a corrupt leviathan has said it is ok.
libya is nothing to do with us whatsoever and UN backing is irrelevant.
Mad dog also funded and armed terrorists who actually did kill British people on British soil. (Unlike Saddam Hussein BTW). The spectre of Irish Nationalist terrorism is rearing its head again and we do not want Gaddafi arming them again.
I hope Gaddafi is killed.
Also, How many British ground troops have been killed in Libya? That would be NONE, because there are no ground troops in Libya.
I agree that we should NOT lose a single soldier in Libya, we should NOT put troops on the ground to invade and occupy. Indeed the UN mandate specifically forbids this and if there was a sniff of a change in that (and there has not been as yet) then I would fully oppose such an action, and Russia and China would most likely veto that anyway.
That said, I am very glad we helped an international, 100% lawful effort to prevent hundreds of thousands of innocent people from being slaughtered in Bengazi and I am also glad that we have helped destroy hundreds of Gaddafi’s tanks, his entire military air force and and his missile silos and arms dumps.
A madman like Gaddafi (and he is clearly fucking out of his tree, only the most retarded and tin-foil-hatted lunatic would defend Gaddafi as being in any way sane) losing his military capability is a good thing.
I am only saddened that we have not managed to do so faster and with less loss of innocent lives.
None of the military action should have happened, and indeed it would not have been necessary at all, had Gaddafi not decided to send helicopter gunships and columns of tanks and mobile rocket launchers to show no mercy in slaughtering hundreds of thousands of ordinary innocent people.
Can you show us any proof of your claims that this is an illuminati plot, Tapestry?
Additionally, I found it entertaining listening to a left-wing squatter, who up until last week was also fundamentally and totally opposed to this action over Libya as it was “Blairesque!”.
That was until she moved into the Squat inside Gadaffi’s London mansion. After meeting the real Libyan’s who had escaped Gaddafi’s brutal and evil regime and set up that squat, she changed her tune totally and now is completely supportive of the “rebels” in the Eastern Free Libya.
It is not an illuminati plot. It is a genuine, grass roots revolution against an oppressive tyrant.
Even now the FCO have sent diplomats over to see who they might have to deal with if the rebels win and form a Government. There was no “government in waiting” created by foreign hands on behalf of a shadowy elite. Indeed, the “shadowy elite” (if they exist) have little information about who they are actually dealing with.
Here’s a clue ……it appears that Dave is limbering up to commit UK ground troops .now remind what did he say ….. er something like the UK has no plans to commit ground troops in Leeb-ya…oh stupid me these are of course for HUMANITARIAN purposes so they don’t count and he had his fingers crossed when he said it…yet another betrayal it appears by Cast Iron Dave..now what was that about “Mission Creep “again ??
http://www.thisisplymouth.co.uk/news/Task-force-set-Med/article-3404716-detail/article.html
Yeah, because a copy of “thisisplymouth” really has the inside scoop on the protocol for overturning a UN mandate don’t it?
The UN mandate specifically forbids a ground invasion and China and Russia would veto any move to change that.
Oh, and every minister, bureaucrat and military person involved will tell you that media reports of a ground invasion of Libya are 100% total bullshit!
Not just in plymouth newspapers either it was in the Sunday Times yesterday and other media outlets have it….also I would credit This is Plymouth knowing a lot more about it than you as the Commandoes are based there as are the assets involved..but you’ve entirely missed the point it’s not about overturning a UN Mandate as the UNSCR 1973mandate does NOT exclude ground troops for HUMANITARIAN PURPOSES to protect port facilities/aid agencies involved in humanitarian work..Russia and China would have no say as they’ve already agreed the mandate..anyway time will tell but I suspect it’ll be you who’s proven wrong
How many British service personnel have been killed in Libya- none.
Does Gadaffi deserve to be ousted- Yes.
Cost to British taxpayer- minimal in the grand scheme of things.
Training value- huge.
Stop whinging.
+1
This is NOT Iraq and NOTHING like Iraq!
The sole objective of the Libyan war is to put permanent military bases into Libya, and bring Libya under Empire control. Humanitarian war? Don’t make me laugh!!!.
The CIA promoted Irish terrorism, and assassinated British nationalists, as a way to reduce British independence and feed us into the EU, where we are now ”in the system”, and no further threat. Gaddafi did as his CIA masters bid. His oil has been as their disposal all along. Now they’re getting greedy and they want all of Africa in AFRICOM, a single OWG military command structure. Gaddafi refused to join that (the only African nation to do so), as well as Sarkozy’s Mediterranean Union, which he rightly called ”imperialist”.
Don’t be mugs and fall for all the atrocity stuff. They sow stories like that two a penny as they start wars .
Nearly everyone is aware that Gaddafi funded the Provos but fewer are aware of another typically misinformed involvement in the Northern Irish paramilitary underground. The story is bizarre and, as far as I know, relatively little is known about it.
In the aftermath of the Ulster Workers’ Council (UWC) strike of May 1974, which brought down the power-sharing Executive established following the Sunningdale Agreement, loyalist paramilitaries got an inkling that perhaps they didn’t need to look towards Unionist politicians any longer. As Hugh Smyth, later of the Progressive Unionist Party, said, the UWC victory “belonged to the workers and not to the politicians who did not declare their hand until it became clear that the workers were going to win.” Of course, this is to romanticise the so-called ‘strike’ by presenting it as some sort of spontaneous expression of working-class consciousness, when in fact it was initially a narrowly-based coup d’etat planned as early as the previous autumn by a self-selecting committee of paramilitary leaders. Nevertheless, it was loyalist trade unionists such as Hugh Petrie and members of the UDA and the UVF which made the ‘strike’ possible, not Ian Paisley or Bill Craig.
I hope Gaddafi is killed.
- I hope war criminal Blair is killed
Also, How many British ground troops have been killed in Libya? That would be NONE, because there are no ground troops in Libya.
– Also, How many British ground troops have been thrown out of Libya?
And would Cast Iron admit to losing clandestine ground troops in Libya?
Look at yourself mrned – you are as barmy as the man you are rubbishing.
It is a civil war that we have nothing to do with. And war has already been declared by bombing a sovereign country.
Just as what you will and wont support cuts no ice, I dont want anything to do with Libya. Its either a bloodbath now or a bloodbath in the future.
As a chap who once arrived in Plymouth from a weekend off to be informed that my ship had moved.
“Because three ships were in to ‘war up’, to go down the Falklands to prevent an invasion” ( Labour, 1970s ).
And again later,,
” Your at an ammunition buoy. The Chinks have invaded Vietnam”
(Conservatives ????) (Don’t remember the date).
Plymouth (Guzz) and Portsmouth (Pompey) Taxi drivers, all work for the N.S.A.
Er. Obama sold out to the Bushes? Explain, please.
An excellent quango to get rid of. Finance itself or fold.
It was an excellent article by Letts. Glad it hit the bullseye.
Can’t the Maily Telegraph and the Mail swap Letts and Bryony The Breasts? It would restore some credibility to the DT.
Only if he writes about his tits.
The DT got rid of Tom Utley and Craig Brown and we end up with Mary fucking Riddell. I can save myself £1 by simply reading my used sheet of toilet paper with me if I want her considered, well-thought-out opinion.
Guido must himself take on Bryony as an occasional relief for his hard-pressed acolyte.
Oooohhhaahhhh! Bryony, she needs a damn good seeing to, lovely breasts and hips and legs, a proper womans figure, bring her to my tent, she’ll see little daylight with a rampant old goat like me. Bet she would still find something to moan about though.
Disgraceful, all these dirty old men going on about such a nice looking and wholesome wench. You can put her straight out of your depraved and debased thoughts. The idea of having her oiled up and chained to a bed for your own evil self-gratification… Eternal shame on you. Quite apart from that, she is mine, ahaaarrgghh!
“The taxpayer-bloated Keynes-founded Arts Council is surely a body devoted to freedom of artistic expression. How does it square that with legalistic bullying of hacks?”
It doesn’t, but it hasn’t stopped them before has it? Fuck, they really hate they’re cosy, featherbedded world being exposed don’t they? Good.
This is the wretch who thought nothing of hiring a cab from Stratford to her pad in London and claiming it on expenses.
The journey from Stratford Upon Avon to London cost over £400, a sum greater than an over night stay, and a train journey home the next morning. Like so many of her ilk she thinks that her lifestyle choices have to be funded by the taxpayers.
Damn these leftie luvvie quango’s – sucking on the life blood of our nation and they cannot come up with either art or comedy of any acceptable quality.
Where is Suzi Leather when you need her?
Hope Dacre and Letts gives it to her with both barrels.
State funded art must be stopped!
Why should I pay.
its simple, put on productions and exhibitions that people want to see at a price they are willing to pay and use any profits to do the diversity crap if needed.
as an American friend of mine who works in the theatrical arena says “honey it aint called show art its called show business”
A pig in knickers, allegedly !!
Give a bag of crisps and then hane em
Hang em even.
Glad to see that someone has something lucid, and indeed legible, to say about this.
Ok , why does taxpayers money go the arts council, Arts depertment at school i can understand , Besides , Art is justa point of view.
Art is what you can get away with.
Better watch what we say. These guys keep their lawyers on a hair trigger, just another way of growing their personal wealth at others expense.
Just tell people that Mark oaton and John Presscott get grants from the Arts council , then most people will support scrapping it.
You are an Arts Council misspelling installation and I claim my £ 5.
..and he’s probably a lot prettier than a pile of bricks…
Its so delightful that the piece has wound the harridan up to such an extent.The reaction reeks of insecurity and seething anger.
I bet the Mail hopes that she sues.It would be a hoot and very bad news for the guardianistas.
Scrap the Arts Council immediately. No ifs or buts.
Most “art” nowadays is complete and utter shite.
So can i apply for a grant to do a “artistic” piece on my view of Edward Milibands “blank sheet of paper”
Confirmed…. BB is a luvvie !!
Only if your application contains phrases such as “post-modernist ironical comment”, “an exploration of the essential disparity in paradigm shifts of the modern human experience” and, “the artist will explore the idea of completeness of a vacuum”.
No, I don’t have a clue what they mean either – but Arts Council publications are full of bullshit like this. I took an interest in arts (and more particularly crafts) a few years ago, and read some of their guff, hoping to learn. I didn’t, so I gave up on them. I gather that most working artists and craftspeople have done the same.
Letts is an unbearable snob. Dismissive of mere ‘workers’ as proles who are spoiling the ‘Midsomerness of England.’
He is a man who would enjoy being on the arts council, promoting 14th century religious paintings as great works of art and condemning ‘new art’ to landfill.
His redeeming feature is that he is quite funny.
his humour is appealing and hes not afraid to tell the truth… he might be well bred Bill and hence the perceived snobbery but in reality I understand he is quite entertaining
He is a terrible snob though. Read his books.
50 people who fucked up Britain.
The Reverend Jackson?
Not someone on many people’s list.
But, I fully agree, he is entertaining. I’d rather an amusing Quentin to a dull Polly any day.
Bill, I 100% agree with your opinion on Letts. The guy’s a odious snob and a prat.
However, even a stopped clock is right twice a day. And on the matter of the crapologists who run the Arts Council, Letts is bang on the money.
I do a huge shit on a monday morning after eating turkey crown
I wonder if i could get a grant for photographing it
I would like to explore the relationship between white sunday rituals, obligation to spouses relatives, intensively farmed animals and a fucking huge steaming pile of shit in my office toliets
As it’s a comment on living as a black man in a white devils’ society your funding for a turd in a toilet has been APPROVED.
Please write this up in menstrual blood on a piece of used bog roll and submit it to us – we will acclaim you and give you the funding you require. You can then have a run-in with the equally squalid/nihilistic Chapman Brothers at some luvvie do over who produces the more revolting examples of over-valued (by the avant-garde) abject conformism.
FACT. All Luvvies are socialists.
Reading this, and Letts article in the Mail, has given me a deep glow of satisfaction.
Thank you.
Cheered me too
…that use right wing tax havens.
Slightly o/T but i was browseing through the Guardian over weekend and came across a piece i thought was intresting , About attacking the Tories over thier polices and not thier background, Tis always a giggle to read the comments of the the lefties ( Equality and all that) , They accuss Dave and co of being a cabnait of millionairs but i never see any critisim from the socailist on the ground that go and enjoy the fruits of captilisim every week when they go and Man City, Man Utd, Liverpool with some of the players earning more in a week than PM in a year, where is the outrage at fottballers using Tax avoidence , I fuckin hate the hypocrsy.
Footballers salary is always quoted ‘after tax.’ To do with working out who gets what across the different world tax rates.
‘Arts and farts’ another state sponsored coven for lefty wankers.
Make a decent War film about our troops in Afghanistan you bastards.
You wont?well fuck your funding.
Brilliant piece by Letts. The other day I got a Press Release from the “Contemporary Glass Society” which complained it had lost all its Arts Council funding (£50k p.a.) and concluded that the current “government seriously fails to provide their arts and heritage with support that they need”. Yes, a political opinion put out in a Press Release and funded by the tax payer. (BTW: this society has a “massive” 700 members. Wow! Amazing value for money. Not.)
If what they make is good enough, people will buy it. If it isn’t, they won’t. The rest of the commercial world can understand that, why can’t the luvvies?
World without contemporary glass, chaos
Contemporary Glass Society will receive
£50,000 in 2008/2009,
£51,350 in 2009/2010,
£52,472 in 2010/2011
and
£48,852 in 2011/2012.
They don’t seem to be robbing the country more than average MP. But can’t they merge with glass blowers society? Or maybe one of these ?
Association for the History of Glass http://www.historyofglass.org.uk/
British Society of Master Glass Painters (BSMGP) http://www.bsmgp.org.uk/
British Society of Scientific Glassblowers http://www.bssg.co.uk
Cohesion Glass Network http://www.cohesionglassnetwork.org
Contemporary Glass Society http://www.cgs.org.uk
Glassbeadmakers UK http://www.gbuk.org
Glass Society of Ireland http://glasssocietyofireland.blogspot.com/
Glass Worldwide http://www.glassworldwide.co.uk
International Festival of Glass http://www.ifg.org.uk
Paperweight Collectors Circle http://www.paperweightcollectorscircle.org.uk/
Scottish Glass – Makers, Craftsmen & Artists http://www.scotlandsglass.com
Society of Glass Technology (SGT) http://www.sgt.org
The Glass Association http://www.glassassociation.org.uk/
The Glass Circle http://www.glasscircle.org/
The Guild of Glass Engravers http://www.gge.org.uk
No they are hideously white.
OK , Arts is not my strong subject( what is i hear the shouts back) But, how many of the great artists in our history needed grants to produce thier masterpices? did Van Gough and co?
Yes.
‘ear ‘ear
Many of the so-called ‘Great Masters’ had rich patrons, who kept them in bread and paints so that they could show off to other rich people – “My artist is better than your artist”. The rich people used their own money, so imposed their own tastes.
The original idea of using public money was to give support across a broader range of arts activities. Unfortunately, the academics took control and now encourage only their own tastes, to the exclusion of all others. So we’re exactly where we were two hundred years ago, except the taxpayer now pays.
Thanks for that
Don’t forget that the only rich patron before the Reformation was the church – the only church – the Roman Catholic church.
Mass funding for the few.
Now that really takes the biscuit. Stop wining…
“no fly zone” Billy can Gaddafis tanks fly now & if they can’t & you attack them aint that really like going to war ….again
Let me get this straight. Positive-discriminators implicitly hire people by racial selection but you can’t point out that they’ve done it? How strange.
I see the Ed Miliband backed BBC Roadshow has just been on BBC News 24.
Don’t you just like license fee payers backed socialism.
Crap programmes, repeat upon repeat, yet plenty of airtime for Red Ed.
The Miliband family motto : Do as I say not as I do.
Left Wing = Fascist.
“multicultural nomenklatura”.
Now how does this break the editors’ code that the ethnicity of any individual should not be identified? No ethnicity or any other city was named.
I’ld love to see them in court trying to prove that the coeterie of stammering wasters weren’t token appointments when the open competition limited the applicants to an ethnic group to ensure a balanced board.
There’s an opera in this:
Liz Forgan (sop) Daniela Dessi
Polly Tonbee (mezzo) Cecilia Bartoli
Quentin Letts (ten) Alfie Boe
Jeremy Hunt (bar) Bryn Terfel
Nick Clegg (counter-tenor) Mark Chambers
Guido Fawkes (basso buffo) David ward
Poor Guido’s personal vendetta against the Guardian is very tiresome……YAWN
No it’s not, it’s very fucking funny
( Unless you are some tit of a socialist )
I never get tired of seeing the Guardian and it’s deluded anti-Britain readers getting the hammering they so richly deserve.
I’ve only ever met one person who bought The Guardian religiously, and he really did wear fucking sandals all the time !
“…demands that Dacre and Letts issue ‘sincere and personal apologies’ to the entire Arts Council board and senior management team for suggesting that they might have been token appointments who won their jobs on anything but open competition.”
Yet the Arts Council and its protégés openly celebrate taxpayer-funded racial favouritism.
the terrible battle Forgan fought to try to stop the ex-Evening Standard editor Veronica Wadley becoming an Arts Council member.
Funny that, given Forgan had a couple of innings on the Standard (tho not when Wadley was editor), and both went to Benenden. More relevant, Forgan was responsible for the shite that is DAB digital radio in this country.
The Arts Council is a fooking parasite and should be made to earn its own money from selling all its various arts to the public. And if nobody wants to buy then it should fold-up like any other business. Arty farty bunch of fooking scroungers!
Forgan on Sarah Palin :
http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/visual_arts/article6163398.ece
“I have been a card-carrying feminist for 40 years and this woman has found somewhere in me a little kernel of sexism. She causes me to make a failure of sisterhood. Sorry Charlie but I cannot stand her candy coated philistinism, I hate her crass creationism, I loath her parading of her family about the place*, God forgive me I even hate her teenage hair …”
* Forgan is childless.