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cholulamare

Oh absolutely, was expecting the bile towards them and that is fully deserved. The swipes in many other directions are truly disgusting though. Don't know what I expected, but a focus on the matter at hand would've been nice - it's just a rambling rant attempting to draw flimsy parallels between the many targets of her pre-existing hatred.
 
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Skiddidlydaddle

Yes, I have to say the phrase "nail on the head" springs to mind. But, wow, imagine having the balls to write all that.
 
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depository

I think Burchill's piece summed India's character up well: "For those of you who have not had the pleasure, Knight is very much of the ‘Lady Muck’ school of female columnists. The Cambridge Dictionary defines the type as ‘A woman who thinks she is very important and should be treated better than everyone else’."
 
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Mazerati

I tend to want to disagree with JB, but holy moly it's very nail on head in terms of the hypocrisy and classism that IK is famous for.
 
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Disillusioned

She only got to the actual victims and inadequate sentencing towards the end. If I hadn’t known the case anyway, I wouldn’t have kept going through all that bile about India. I can’t stand IK, but it is disrespectful to the victims to centre IK rather than them. JB is right about the wokebros and the privileged living behind their wokescreens though.
 
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Jade Mitzi

that was part of my favourite paragraph

‘A woman who thinks she is very important and should be treated better than everyone else’. I would elaborate that she is a woman who is convinced she is better than others with no evidence to show for it, no beauty or wit or humanitarian acts. Above all, she will never judge or mock herself, but lives in order to do so to others.'

100% accurate
 
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Disillusioned

The last para is the important bit for me:

“So widespread is this sickness that in 2017, Norfolk’s police chief constable said that those who viewed child-abuse images should not even be prosecuted, because the police were already unable to cope with the volume of cases. It is a national disgrace that men such as Joyce, who drive the market for the rape of infants, are spared jail by the courts of this country. But it is a national scandal that our newspapers – usually so keen to police the morals of our public figures – close ranks to protect one of their own. What a shameful episode in the history of British journalism – the silence of the hacks, shielding the evils which take place behind the Wokescreen.”
 
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Jade Mitzi

If I am completely honest, I think the article was more of a way for JB to have a legitimate kick at IK. The true miscarriage of justice being EJ strolling away without jail time and being pretty much kept out of the press, shielded from criticism was a wee bit lost.
 
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Lovely

Yeah, it was obviously written in anger, which (although justified in relation to EJ/IK) doesn't always lead to the most thoughtful response. I still love JB though.
 
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Pollypops

Any Twitter response to this? Would be interested to see if Suzanne M reacts given her closeness to both of them
 
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Rosie878

I think it’s brilliant. She definitely has the measure of India. I know most of IK’s mates aren’t newsy journalists but I do think if it had been a Tory or Corbynite MP they would have commented on it.
 
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Rosie878 said:
I think it’s brilliant. She definitely has the measure of India. I know most of IK’s mates aren’t newsy journalists but I do think if it had been a Tory or Corbynite MP they would have commented on it.
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It’s so absurd.. I cannot believe I used to like Caitlin Moran , reading this site in the last year Ish has been very educational
 
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cholulamare

Rosie878 said:
I think it’s brilliant. She definitely has the measure of India. I know most of IK’s mates aren’t newsy journalists but I do think if it had been a Tory or Corbynite MP they would have commented on it.
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He's not an MP though (JB makes the same error in her article, wilfully I'm guessing in her case) - and I don't think it would matter if he were a Tory or Corbynite. They're not crucifying him because he's a mate's husband, not because of his political leanings.
 
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Debarkle

Yeah imagine if it was someone like Giles Coren... a lot would be said and no one would hold back
 
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cholulamare

Pollypops said:
Any Twitter response to this? Would be interested to see if Suzanne M reacts given her closeness to both of them
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Dom Joly has tweeted it out:

And JB has retweeted someone's reply, seems to be someone on here/knows about what happened with the Sali Hughes situation:
 
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SharkAttack

I also think it's excellent. Whether JB has a personal axe to grind is of little consequence given what Joyce has done and how it has been hushed up.
 
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cholulamare

I totally missed that on Monday Kerry Jean Lister tweeted about EJ and people not talking about it - she has always seemed like a good egg to me. Some interesting stuff in the thread, including people having requested sentence reviews from the Attorney General.

 
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Everyoldsock

I think some of them aren't crucifying him because they're terrified of losing their gigs at the Times.
 
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