Any news on the memorial threads that I am meant to have trashed yet?

crags 11 Dec 16 12:24
Any news on the memorial threads that I am meant to have trashed yet?

There's the AA Gill one for starters.

I can read at least 10 comments of you having a ruck with various people on this thread.... mind you now you've got me at it!

Talking of baboons:
Twenty five years ago, Gill was a hack working for Rupert Murdoch. Sunday Times sent him to do a hatchet job on Berlin (yes, the anti EU propaganda was at work then). His article - anti Berlin, anti Europe - was prefaced on the Sunday Times magazine cover with a picture of Gill in a "square head" German army helmet. But the worst aspect was his leering countenance, bloodshot eyes staring back at the reader like a crazed lab-monkey working the button connected to the electrical current of a rectal-implant.

But he turned our all right in the end, a passionate Remainer.
Good man.

It is sad to lose anyone especially before their time, but I was never a fan of his writing.

I read his article in the sunday times today and even in terminal illness he was not an easy read.  I have been in tears reading the last writings of most famous people but not him.  His style is tediously pompous, i.e. turgid.  It seems because of his background that he had to use three long words when one short one would do just as well.  I think he did this to try to emulate his oxford and cambridge chums.

I also did not like it when he said of mary beardsley that 'she should be kept away from the cameras' and also that she belonged on the program 'the undateables', for people of physical, mental or facial problems.  He was not clever enough to go to university, even a poor one, but felt able to criticise her about her program, when she is a professor of classics at cambridge university.

I think this is the first critical rip that I have ever wrote but I am a quite flabbergasted at the press reports  saying how wonderful he was as a writer and a person.  A nice person would not have wrote about mary beardsley's looks.  Fair enough about her program, but to inflict unnecessary hurt about her looks was beyond the pale.  He was a pr@t.

It is a good post by annie.

Thanks, kenny and Makybe Diva.

I wrote it and then considered deleting it as it seemed ungracious but his remarks about mary beardsley and claire balding still rankles.

But then again it is not his fault that he is a man and I have learnt from chit chat that the majority of men think like that

Mary Beard

I always found him a difficult read as well

I also did not like it when he said of [i]mary beardsley that 'she should be kept away from the cameras' and also that she belonged on the program 'the undateables', for people of physical, mental or facial problems.  He was not clever enough to go to university, even a poor one, but felt able to criticise her about her program, when she is a professor of classics at cambridge university.
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Mary Beard is her name. Quite comical to listen to people moralising about him commenting on her and the same people can't even get her name right

I thought the guy was a troll - he made his name insulting people and places, and was paid a nice wedge for doing so. Dining for free at nice restaurants and watching telly -- what a gig, eh?