I know. I’ve read it too but the Kipling line is what’s closest to the sentiment of the zombie quote.
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I know. I’ve read it too but the Kipling line is what’s closest to the sentiment of the zombie quote.
The comparison to the Red Guards is wild.
Well, in so far as he quotes the line on patriotism from the Kipling poem. So we should be giving Kipling credit if anyone.
‘Having an attractive successful girlfriend will increase Goodwin’s popularity you complete spanners’ reads exactly like a thought bubble from Matt Goodwin in a Viz strip where he’s the main character.
Only a matter of time before he’s gorging himself on Toblerone.
Yes. The readership is literally dying off.
You should write their press releases.
It definitely reads like one.
More like the less familiar of two evils. I’d say the Mail and Axel Springer are on pretty similar territory.
To my surprise, the campaign also offered lessons in love. I gave a quote to a newspaper about my blossoming relationship with Eilidh Hargreaves, features director at Tatler, and how (unfortunately for her) we spent our first Valentine’s Day canvassing. The quote led to us trending on X thanks to some incel lefties who run an account called ‘Reform UK Exposed’. ‘The “Family, Community, Country” campaigner divorced only last month,’ it raged. Really? Eilidh and I met more than three years after my separation – at The Spectator Parliamentarian of the Year Awards no less. In any case, the attempted hit-job backfired as politicians and journalists rushed to our defence. ‘Ha ha!’ remarked one shrewd commentator. ‘Having an attractive and successful girlfriend will increase Goodwin’s popularity, you complete spanners.’ Indeed. I’ve tried and failed to forget another comment: ‘Goodwin is clearly punching
After reading Matt Goodwin’s diary in The Spectator, I am more convinced than ever that he has a humiliation fetish.
Yep. Sorry!
Sorry!
Max Goldt on Bild could equally apply to the Telegraph:
“[It] is an organ of depravity. It is wrong to read it... It would be wrong to be friendly or even polite to any of its editors. One must be as unfriendly to them as the law just barely allows. They are bad people doing bad things.”
It remains to be seen how new European ownership will be greeted by a largely Eurosceptic readership. “Red-faced Brexiteers all over Surrey having conniptions,” said one source close to the saga. “You would need a heart of stone not to laugh.”
This paragraph from The Guardian’s analysis of the Axel Springer bid is particularly silly. The readership won’t notice and if it does it’ll be delighted that an extremely right-wing company is in control.
Bild has played a big role in promoting the AfD in Germany so you can be damn sure that the Axel Springer owned Telegraph will go even harder for Reform. And it’s taste for demonising refugees and benefits recipients is highly in line with corporate culture.
Oh yeah, another reason that the Telegraph / Axel Springer tie-up makes so much sense is how rapidly ‘Covid sceptic’ Bild and its associated titles were during the pandemic. Its rages against masks and mandatory vaccinations would’ve slipped straight into the pages of the Telegraph.
A good example of how Axel Springer engages in shady political action via its publications is its 2007 campaign against the minimum wage in Germany. Its papers went to war on it because… its private postal service business PIN AG was exploiting thousands of workers earning half the proposed minimum.
Oh, there’ll be some ‘rationalisations’ alright.
Axel Springer — the man — called Bild his “dog on a chain” and used it to ruthlessly attack his enemies, i.e. the Left. Its campaign of harassment towards the left-wing student leader Rudi Dutschke inspired an attempted assassination, the injuries from which ultimately led to his death.
And Bild — Germany’s answer to The Sun — is regularly in the shit with the press regulator over there due to its extremely flexible approach to ethics, privacy, and facts. All of which should work nicely with the prevailing editorial approach at The Telegraph.
Not as big as it was.
The Telegraph titles are a distressed asset. It’s broadly a good thing that Daily Mail Group hasn’t been able to acquire them but Axel Springer is a wildly pro-US company that just *might* have originally been funded by a big pile of CIA money.
*has bid
Excellent news.
Ha! Coincidentally today saw the release of Unappreciated by The Foul - South Queensferry's only one man tribute to The Fall:
Axel Springer has big £600m to buy The Daily Telegraph/Sunday Telegraph. It also bid £600m to buy the titles back in 2004 (it was beaten by the Barclay bros £665m offer). With inflation though, that 2004 bid would equate to about £1.1bn now.
It was a good episode!
Episode 6 2018/19 Episode 6 of 31 John Humphrys presents another heat of the classic quiz with four contenders answering questions on Mark E Smith and The Fall, letters of the New Testament, the history of the Wrens and Sir Isaac Newton. O 28 minutes
Oh amazing. Mine was on YouTube but doesn’t seem to be anymore.
That too.
