Militant students at Warwick

[Beef Oven!]

(My emphasis.)

And that is only Ron Liddle's definition of the Faux-left, of course (that's me emphasising).

[Beef Oven!]

No, because he doesn't exist, and his opinions are therefore of even less consequence than those of his near-namesake.

No, because it's about the Faux left, not Ron Liddle (however it's spelt)

ROD!

[Richard Barrett]

You know what faux-left means. Why are you pretending?

No I don't, I've actually never heard the term except from you. Hence the Humpty reference. If the term has any wider currency it must be in circles I'm not aware of.

And the topic is BBC bias, anyway.

it's about the Faux left, not Ron Liddle

Isn't it about militant students at Warwick?

(I've never heard of Ron or Rod Liddle either. I've heard of Diane Abbott because she used to be my MP. Whatever her merits and faults, she appears to be the subject of a long-running smear campaign in the media.)

[MrGongGong]

Yes, it's a made-up word. But not by me, the Americans coined it (sushiology, I mean).

So pray tell me what it is supposed to mean?

Or maybe your "Faux peoples army" have a dick-tionary ( they certainly have a lot of dicks) that will help us poor folks understand?

[Richard Barrett]

that will help us poor folks understand?

You mean us poor faux.

[Beef Oven!]

Isn't it about militant students at Warwick?

That's the OP of the thread. What was being discussed was the BBC's objectivity - the discussion subject. You're normally a little more on the ball, than this.

[amateur51]

Exactly.

The suppression of free speech and right to demonstrate starts off with a mainstream labour politician having her replies on Any Questions last night interrupted at every second sentance by the "impartial" Dimbleby while Pickles was allowed to spout utter garbage uninterrupted - replicating how Balls and Osbourne respectfully were likewise treated on the Andrew Marr Show last Sunday - and environmental campaigners by police, as was incontrovertibly evidenced in the undercover police agent Mark Kennedy documentary of 2011 "Confessions of an Underground Cop", which taught any doubter everything that needs to be known to understand what freedom of choice and freedom to campaign therefore means in this society. And I'm quite sure our boys in blue are busy learning lessons from their brethren over the Pond on dealing with uppity citizens of the wrong category.

I too was appalled by Dimbleby's treatment of Rachel Reeves MP (for it was she) but I was rather taken with the way in which she declined to be shouted down.

How Pickles managed to make himself understood when his tongue was so clearly far up the fundament of the headteacher and governors of the school from the fee-paying from which the broadcast came is a modern marvel.

I was surprised that Mark Serwotka didn't get much audience support as I thought that several of his replies were rather good.

[amateur51]

More made up words and phrases ?

Vote Kipper get Finnegans Wake

:hootytooty:

[P. G. Tipps]

I'd heard of both Rod Liddle and Diane Abbott but I won't boast about it ...

Richard Barrett claimed (typically unconvincingly) that he didn't know what 'Faux Left' actually means. The clue is actually in the words themselves and that, of course, is where dictionaries come in so useful ... :sigh:

However good an MP she may be otherwise I think DA is a fine and prominent example of one who clearly belongs to it.

Mr Liddle may well be considered 'repulsive' by the intolerant and unsympathetic but, on this occasion at least, he is absolutely right!

[Richard Barrett]

You're normally a little more on the ball, than this.

I was remarking on how you seem when it suits you to have strong feelings about what the discussion topic actually is, but at other times are happy to drag it off somewhere else, that's all.

[Richard Barrett]

Richard Barrett claimed (typically unconvincingly)

Quite - I don't think it would take much less than a Black & Decker to the cranium to convince you of anything, if you don't mind me saying.

[jean]

Mr Liddle may well be considered 'repulsive' by the intolerant and unsympathetic...

I don't think you have to be particularly intolerant and unsympathetic to find Rod Liddle repulsive - I have plenty of sympathy, but it's reserved for the wife he abandoned on their honeymoon to fly back to be with his mistress.

(This reply is especially for PG, who has I believe a deeply tradtitional view of marriage. For everyone else, here is Will Self reviewing Liddle's recent book.)

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[Beef Oven!]

I was remarking on how you seem when it suits you to have strong feelings about what the discussion topic actually is, but at other times are happy to drag it off somewhere else, that's all.

Well say what you mean, then.

[amateur51]

No, because it's about the Faux left, not Ron Liddle (however it's spelt)

ROD!

Ron LIddle is that big bloke who likes to give BO a bear-hug greeting down his local boxing gym.

Rod Liddle is the failed-journalist whose current schtick is to mock politically active lesbians from the 1970s. How they must have made him feel small.

How very dare they?! :titter:

[Serial_Apologist]

It would be interesting to know what the accusers of "faux-leftism" would make of real leftists, if one presumes them to exist in their minds.

That might help clarify things here.

Maybe.