It's interesting to see Barbara Rich weighing in on this. She's clocked the Monroe issue too and has some good points to make around it all. She's not my cup of tea, politically speaking, but she is sensible on this stuff. And a barrister lends a certain respectability to a debate that has been dominated on Xitter by anonymous accounts and some serious internet weirdos. (Legal Gengar: looking at you).
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I wonder if she knows what a truly golden goose egg she pissed up the wall. Ironically she could have had the life she craves if she’d just put in 25% effort.
this could be her big comeback opportunity…
Max Gogarty ended up being something quite senior at BBC3 I think. Of course.
Edit: Now at Apple TV. https://appleinsider.com/articles/23/05/26/apple-tv-adds-to-its-london-team-with-bbc-vet-max-gogarty
She's ridiculous.A browse through that thread: guest was posting about making her own bubble bath in the slow cooker and we got this absolutely deranged expression
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Bit of a mixed metaphor there @Geetbo
Max Gogarty!! I was there in real time. It was a glorious uprising of Graun readers, singularly unimpressed by the pathetic sub skins jokes about nurses and the semi racist chat about India being full of dust and snakes (as opposed to, ya know, modern bustling cities and multi billion $ tech companies). That was the best BTL ever, the Graun travel editor turned up ineffectually bleating at people to be kind and promptly got ripped a new one. I think Max’s dad (the Guardian travel writer Paul Gogarty lest we forget) turned up at some point too to tell us how sad widdle Max was feeling as he began his expensive gap yah in India.
Truly a great day. Thank you for the reminder.
I know the travel ed and he still breaks out in a cold sweat at the mere mention of the name. I first met him about 10 years after and it was one of the first things I asked him.
Mr Beacon and I spent an enjoyable New Year's Day systematically going through the kitchen and chucking out anything we didn't use or like, or any food and spices that we'd let go out of date, and then organising all the drawers and cupboards so everything is visible and accessible. We've only been in this house 18 months and it's amazing what has been accumulated and got out of place since we moved in - or was actually in the wrong place all along. Not sure whether he really understood my logic of storing sieves, colanders and graters on the same shelf as "they all have holes in", mind.
ASDA essentials bubble bath is 75p!
@rage naan R U OK hun? U gotta stop torturing urself lik dis babes. 4get bout Fat Scam + her slop gun. Its jus fraus 4eva babe. We got ya back hun. Dat jazzy shoo snek iz bad 4 ur mental elf. xoxoxoxo
She definitely is. She called out Jack specifically last September (ss @Knitonepurlone)
The only reason I remember that is because I had to look up who she was and turns out…
Barbara’s got a better £5 book token poetry prize than Jack too! 
Funnily enough, teen Jack was also “bookish”, rebelling against her strict upbringing of never, ever reading while shouting at the top of one’s lungs at all times.
Funnily enough, teen Jack was also “bookish”, rebelling against her strict upbringing of never, ever reading while shouting at the top of one’s lungs at all times.
It's mad how many of us clocked her instantly way back when. I remember ranting to my then-girlfriend (who, unlike me or Jack, is an actual lesbian who doesn't fall on a dick or three after snorting a line of poppyseeds) about how nobody genuinely poor would leave a near £30k job. I can't believe she's got away with it for this long, taking advantage of well meaning people.
'Bubble bath' in a squash bottle 
Wasn't there a public information film about kids drinking bleach stored in a lemonade bottle?
Of course, she didn't have a child in the house most of the week. Hope the bubble bath got used up before Tuesday mornings.
Wasn't there a public information film about kids drinking bleach stored in a lemonade bottle? Of course, she didn't have a child in the house most of the week. Hope the bubble bath got used up before Tuesday mornings.
I may have had a glass of wine.
Fair 'nuff
Ok but listen I’m sure the travel editor is a nice guy and all but did he not THINK, as he blithely passed the piece for publication, how his readers might receive it? Was he blissfully unaware? Or had he been smoking weed all day?
Is that the "bubble bath in a juice bottle" thing that they tell you NOT to do if you have any children in the house?A browse through that thread: guest was posting about making her own bubble bath in the slow cooker and we got this absolutely deranged expression
It's "charity shop pricing" according to people who don't actually go into charity shops, which is probably a lot of JM's audience so they'd never notice anything off about this claim. They donate to the charity shops, but they don't buy things from them, except possibly some charity Christmas cards from Oxfam once a year so everyone knows that they Care About Things.
Exactly that. I remember reading this and seeing the ridiculous accompanying picture of ol sadface leaning morosely against the wall back in 2013 and thinking then she was a bleeping charlatan and none of it rang true. Anyone who’s grown up in or around genuine poverty could see through her and her “story” instantly.
Jack Monroe: the face of modern poverty | Patrick Butler
Patrick Butler: A mother's blog about feeding herself and her son for £10 a week has led to her becoming a sought-after campaigner
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week after week. Then as I’m not in the UK, (thankfully) lost track of her until here then was gobsmacked by the level of the grift.his story is that it was cheap content at the alter of “reader engagement” and, like most journalists, he’s a lazy hack who takes the easy option.
He did not foresee a backlash
A browse through that thread: guest was posting about making her own bubble bath in the slow cooker and we got this absolutely deranged expression
'Bubble bath' in a squash bottle
Of course, she didn't have a child in the house most of the week. Hope the bubble bath got used up before Tuesday mornings.
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