Rumbled

A man who has nothing in particular to recommend him discusses all sorts of subjects at random as though he knew everything.

From a list of "hateful things" in The Pillow Book of  Sei Shōnagon

That would make quite a good strapline for my blog. But I think I'll donate it to James Delingpole's blog, where it would look even more at home, after his richly-deserved public humiliation on Horizon.



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To paraphrase his fellow libertarian Chris Mounsey's no-holds-barred attempt to eviscerate the splendid Laurie Penny:

It is about time that people — by which I mean commissioning editors — realised that James Delingpole is not only a pig-ignorant self-serving nutcase, but also a bigoted, shallow lackwit living in a fantasy world in which an understanding of complex issues is not the result of diligent study and hard work, but of his magical ability to divine the unassailable truth, based on a combination of whatever happens to pop into his head, interpretations of interpretations, a complete lack of scientific expertise and not having the time to read peer-reviewed papers. 

Laurie Penny is still standing, dignity intact. The sneering, self-styled libertarians, in contrast are looking like pitiful bullies who like to dish it out, but can't take it. It's time to man up or shut up, boys.