"You may think that it is stupid to spend £billions on building a monorail to the moon. Indeed, the leader of the Opposition has claimed that doing so is a waste of money and that instead we should spend the money on more hospitals. That would not be wise; it would be contrary to the strong advice given to us by our security services and our police, and I am simply not prepared to do it" – Chris Lightfoot
"At least we’re safe from the appalling prospect that the chap with no arms will race up the aisle of a 747 in his wheelchair, bash down the cockpit door (with no arms), overpower the crew (did I mention he’s not got arms?) and crash the jet on Westminster with his toes" – Alex Harrowell
"All those who went to fight on behalf of the [Spanish] Republic in the cause of freedom were completely duped." – Antony Beevor, quoted by Oliver Kamm.
Scarily, one of these is not intended as a parody of loonspeak. I wonder if you can guess which?
Sadly, I think we can all guess which.
Look there is no point in saying "Just one Kamm a day, man, I can handle it". It’s got to be cold turkey or nothing with these things. That’s how I gave up Harry’s Place (almost, but I can handle it). Just Say No.
Jesus, "Europhile leftism" has changed a bit since I were a lad. I especially like this:
Franco set himself on keeping out of the War
…which is an interesting interpretation of the tinpot midget begging Adolf to join the fun. Unfortunately for him, Adolf had no need to supplement his Panzers and Messerschmits with a troop of Bible-toting falangists on bullock carts.
Dan,
You made the same "just say no" point re: me and "Janet Daley". You might have had a point but luckily in my case there were supply problems with the quality of the stuff deterioating dreadfully and I was forced to move onto the weaker "Aaronovitch" .
I can’t see that happening in the case of "Oliver", so perhaps John can wean himself off him by a regime of increasingly mild doses of "Totten"?
Ohhhhhh you don’t want to get into Totten. I tried to wean myself off Marc Cooper that way and it’s a real heavy trip, man. Bummer.
My personal vice is Amity Shlaes in the FT. Her column is the media equivalent of taking heroin by injecting it under your foreskin; it’s pretty much an admission that you’ve reached rock bottom, but it’s also degrading and unpleasant enough that you aren’t tempted to do it too often.
(to be honest Shlaes isn’t that bad, but I couldn’t think of anyone who I still read who merits that analogy).
Ah, just read The Sun.
However, unlike one of those terrorists we’ve been passing special legislation to deal with, I’m not convinced that it’s ‘armless.
I’ll get me coat.
I’m always reminded of Ms Shlaes whenever I hear Eminem’s "Mentally Ill from Amityville".
Beevor seems to be pissing all over his own account of the Spanish Civil War, and purposefully discrediting himself by distorting a number of key facts and ignoring many more. I deduce he too has had too much Oliver Kamm.