Guardian Slapped Down Over Oxbridge Hypocrisy
Saturday’s Guardian ran a scathing attack piece criticising Oxford and Cambridge universities as representative of everything that is wrong with society. Although apparently Oxbridge “doesn’t matter“, Lucy Mangan reckons it is still “a tangible symbol of the subtle, pernicious, destructive system we live with and, by and large, accept“. Scroll down and online readers can lay their eyes upon perhaps the best comment in the history of the paper:
Take a bow, Emma…
Bravo!!!
Is Lucy Mangan at that stage in life that ladies seem to have to go through, or is she on something stronger than tea???
She certainly needs to see an optician at least.
Emma Chisset*
*How much is it?
Private Eye would be proud.
You must be one of the new intake.
She wrote then book ” A Yorkshireman’s guide to successful shopping”
Wonderful made up name
The story was told by the wonderful Kenneth Williams who encountered a lady at a booksigning. She asked “how much is it?” and, mishearing, he dedicated one of his books “to Emma Chisit, all the best, Kenneth Williams…….”
(I’m in training for the bbc’s annual pedant of the year competition)
And the risible bint went to Cambridge herself!
Aha, totally exposed as hypocrits!
Was Polly Toynbee too thick to get into Oxbridge? Can’t see her name
YES!!!!
She got in, but didn’t complete her studies there. She read History for a year-and- a-half (Toynbee– history– what are the odds?). It was mostly as a “legacy” that she was even there in the first place, as her scholastic achievements to that point were meagre indeed.
Jackie Ashley ? St Anne’s College, Oxford
Polly Toynbee ? St Anne’s College, Oxford
Heather McRobie ? Keble College, Oxford
What a silly bunt !
Yes but she is there as St Annes. Maybe she has connections.
Our Pol. is too thick to get into a pair of trousers….but I think she’s trying.
Essentially ALL socialists throughout the centuries have been and are hypocrites…
To be fair, the Socialism which they advocate is for the rest of us but not them. Once you understand that subtle point it makes things much clearer.
She cannot take credit for the list , as she cut and pasted it from elsewhere
So what????
Which bit of Mangan’s article attacks Oxbridge? It seems to be going out of its way to avoid doing so.
Shhh. You’ve actually read the article. Just throw loud disparaging comments around like everyone else here does.
Let’s also not forget that other “tangible symbol of the subtle, pernicious, destructive system we live with” – Polly Toynbee. Too thick to pass the 11 plus or gain more than a solitary A level, she still “won” a scholarship to Oxford. Of course she couldn’t hack it a dropped out after 18 months. Being a total failure was evidently no impediment to being employed by the Observer, BBC and Guardian.
Oxford’s a complete dump
I went to Oxford.
Its where I met all my socialist chums.
Another bored Grauniad hack posting on it’s own website.
How long will that comment stay up there?
So far her comment has (477) Recommends.
+1 Recommending comments is for retards.
Your host should reintroduce comment recommends.
Don’t worry i have a copy. This was good as well.
Q.
just wondering what the question marks are meant to symbolise in your list? Are these guesses?
A (Emma)
I don’t know- I didn’t compile the list, just copied it. I’d guess that it doesn’t indicate a guess but has, for some reason been used as puncuation, a hyphen would have been better perhaps.
(I wouldn’t know for sure, not having gone to Oxbridge). : )
Also addresses the faint plagiarism reference above.
Probably a software conflict where some punctuation like a dash was turned into question marks.
Lucy Mangan went to Cambridge…
http://www.whocomments.org/wiki/Lucy_Mangan
Goodness, all those brilliant minds wasted churning out dogmatic drivel to be read only by a a few others just like them.
Clearly a university education isn’t all that it’s cracked up to be.
Did not know that about Laurie Penny (also in the comments on the Guardian site). As Jarvis Cocker put it, “everybody hates a tourist”
..
She studied sculpture at Saint Martin’s College,
that’s where I caught her eye.
She told me that her Dad was loaded
I said in that case I’ll have a rum and coke-cola.
She said fine and in thirty seconds time she said,
I want to live like common people
I want to do whatever common people do,
I want to sleep with common people
I want to sleep with common people,
like you…
East end boys and West end girls.
I’ll drink to that!
Serves you alright for buying the appalling rag. Delete it from your FREE browser it’s wonderfully cathartic. I did abt. 6 months ago and still feel really ‘up.’
Lucky to get away with it – every time I post the Oxbridge/private school lists on Comment is Free I am disappeared.
Here’s part of it:
Editor Alan Rusbridger (Cranleigh); political editor Patrick Wintour (Westminster); leader writer Madeleine Bunting (Queen Mary’s, Yorkshire); policy editor Jonathan Freedland (University College School); columnist Polly Toynbee (Badminton); executive editor Ian Katz (University College School); security affairs editor Richard Norton Taylor (King’s School, Canterbury); arts editor-in-chief Clare Margetson (Marlborough College); literary editor Clare Armitstead (Bedales); public services editor David Brindle (Bablake); city editor Julia Finch (King’s High, Warwick).; environment editor John Vidal (St Bees); fashion editor Jess Cartner-Morley (City of london School for Girls); G3 editor Janine Gibson (Walthamstow Hall); northern editor Martin Wainwright (Shreswbury); and industrial editor David Gow (St Peter’s, York).
In that mini-me Socialist People’s Republic of Poland the socialistic party members introduced a points system for university entrance. As well as baccalaureate marks, points were given for background.
Party appartchicks who had benefited from their background points now found that their offspring were no longer regarded as being of prole or peasant background and could not benefit from the extra points. Their remedy was to buy a small piece of land (peasants could own land, something which the party was unable to close down) somewhere in the country and claim that their offspring were of peasant background.