Tag Archives: Littlejohn

Theresa May’s Littlejohn moment

October 4, 2011 – 9:50 pm

So Theresa May repeated the 2009 myth that an immigrant was allowed to stay in the UK because they owned a cat. Worryingly, her speech had – according to Left Foot Forward – been checked by no less than David Cameron, Nick Clegg, George Osborne and Danny Alexander. Oh dear. For the record (in case you [...]

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‘Infantile’

September 26, 2011 – 10:30 pm

Richard Littlejohn has dedicated most of today’s column to the Human Rights Act and why it should be scrapped by David Cameron. Of course, being a Richard Littlejohn he constantly refers to the Human Rights Act as ‘yuman rites act’ and David Cameron as ‘Call Me Dave’. Before then having the cheek to declare that [...]

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Richard Littlejohn and Baha Mousa

September 8, 2011 – 9:13 pm

14th July 2009, the day after an inquiry was launched into alleged abuse meted out to Iraqis held captive by the Queen’s Lancashire Regiment in Basra in September 2003, Richard Littlejohn wrote this two paragraph aside on the matter: Richard Littlejohn was reacting to allegations that prisoners had been: verbally abused, burned, stamped and urinated [...]

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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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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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