Category Archives: Richard Littlejohn

Littlejohn’s ‘Silly Season’

August 23, 2011 – 8:43 pm

The standards expected of a Daily Mail columnist are so low that Richard Littlejohn can freely admit that he is an utterly lazy and repetitive writer – in fact he spends a substantial number of words just pointing this out. I can’t help but find it odd that Littlejohn’s readers don’t get just a little [...]

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What about the real news?

July 15, 2011 – 10:06 am

Today’s Daily Mail editorial condenses all of the basic arguments that have been trotted out by their ever-so-compliant columnists in the past week as to why we should all forget about hacking and move onto something else: ‘Never mind phone hacking, what about the real issues facing Britain?‘ [istyosty.com link]. In the real world, bleak [...]

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Littlejohn on trusting ‘sources’

May 24, 2011 – 11:58 pm

Richard Littlejohn – fresh from rescuing the rape debate last week – has now decided to discuss the perils of trusting unreliable sources of information. The problems with sites like Twitter, Richard argues, is that: everything which appears on so-called social networking sites is either wrong or motivated by malice. So I take any information [...]

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Richard Littlejohn on rape

May 20, 2011 – 10:23 am

I’ve been observing – with some disgust – the arguments about rape this week and I was wondering if the level of debate could get any worse. Then I realised that Richard Littlejohn had decided to make this topic the focus of his column this morning. Yes, Richard Littlejohn, the man who insisted that the [...]

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Predictable Dick

May 13, 2011 – 12:46 am

Richard Littlejohn was never going to shy away from another easy column this week going over MPs expenses in light of David Law’s suspension and ‘elf ‘n’ safety’ over the guy that got sacked for a serious breach of safety regulations by South West Trains. Firstly, let’s turn to the judges comments on Laws’ suspension: [...]

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