p22 of yesterday's comic for low-iq grown-ups...Simon Heffer...what a right wing tool.
I love my mum but WTF does she have to support these evil journalists? 😡
Crap rant. Be more specific.
Amusingly, Heffer's blurb on the Telegraph website reads
He has written biographies of Thomas Carlyle, Enoch Powell and Ralph Vaughan Williams, a political biography of King Edward VII and the polemic Nor Shall My Sword: The Reinvention of England[b],[/b] about England's relations with Scotland
[b]. [/b]In 2010 he published Strictly English, a guide to writing and speaking correct English, and in May 2010 will publish A Short History of Power.
...which is pretty poorly-written and outdated copy.
TBF though a bloke on p23 has laid into Clarkson.
can't wait to use that right of way/violate his rights when I'm in IoM in Sept 😎
He was slagging off Zadie Smith's piece on libraries on Today, making a few fair points but then making broad and unsubstantiated swipes...exactly what he criticised her for.
That good enough?
Yes, now we can understand what the topic of your rant is!
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/columnists/simonheffer/8421773/Lefties-not-Etonians-are-closing-libraries.html
Giving a page reference to hard copy probably not the most useful citation on the internet! 😛 Nor the wrong day (libraries article appeared on Friday 01 April)...
He writes:
I’m all for Michael Gove’s plan to teach classic literature in schools...Why don’t we have some less obvious novels, like...the most magnificent unknown novel of the 19th century, The Way of All Flesh, by Samuel Butler?
without quite considering why an unknown (which he doesn't mean literally) piece of work can't be considered a classic.
But he's a columnist - it's just filling space and to give people a sense of self-righteousness because they're smart enough to disagree or agree with him.
The bit by James Cracknell was good, does he come on here? He mentioned fatbikes, Surly, singlespeed and niche all in one article. He'll have a beard next...