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I have written a blog about The Spectator for the Media Guardian website. It's always cool to be invited on there, even though doing so risks drawing abusive comments from the mob (because "comment is free" - unlike this blog, where it has to be nice). Actually, the response has been pretty reasonable thus far.
posted by Andrew Collins @ 12:26 PM
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You are very brave.
CiF scares me to death.
Nice work - no major attack... but usually the attacks on CiF are pretty much enticed in the first place - your article's reasonable so there's not much to fear.
I notice the Kooks are on the cover of film and music. But no commentary enabled in the online version. Oh how I wonder why.
I can see how daunting this was for you. You look petrified in the profile pic on there!
Brave? Not hugely (but I know you weren't trying to be). You seem to be saying "the other side are quite clever, as well". Well they didn't get to where they are by being dumb.
Well done for giving them respect for their intellectual ability; their views may be abhorrent, but we risk taking our eye off the ball if we just dismiss them as right-wing idiots.
Hey, they've used a picture of Mark Steel under your name!
I gave up on NS the best part of 10years ago because it had become so dull, having been a regular purchaser for years. If I'm going on a long journey the chances of me buying The Spectator as opposed to NS are odds on. The politics can wind me up and have me gnashing my teeth, but The Spectator is nothing if not interesting. With NS I'll start an article and be asleep before I'm halfway through.
I started reading The New Statesman roughly the same time they pulled the plug on The Listener, as something to fill the gap, and have followed it through many of it's appalling changes, and indeed name changes, it became, albeit briefly, The New Statesman and Society after they "merged" a merger similar to the one when BSB "merged" with Sky.
I also remember the period when it came with a Scottish insert, possibly in an attempt to placate the small n nationalists.
I just wish it would become a bit more exciting. Why are the Left saddled with unexciting and worthy publications, speaking of which, I think I may still have every edition of the News On Sunday in my loft. Very good insulation.
Actually, for a good intelligent, serious look at current affairs, with high-brow wit and humour, I can seriously recommend Viz.
ok ok, perhaps the humour isn't quite as sophisticated as you might like, but Viz is piss funny and well worth a couple of quid every month! This month's "Modern Parents" strip is one of my favourites in a very long time:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Modern_Parents
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