Tag Archives: Littlejohn

The Talented Mr Littlejohn

March 23, 2013 – 10:40 am

Tweet We didn’t need a 2,000 page report by Leveson to demonstrate that something is rotten in the state of journalism, we just need to remind ourselves of the glittering career of Richard Littlejohn. Here is a man who has worked in journalism since 1971 and in his most recent form – twice-weekly ‘satirical’ columns [...]

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Theresa May’s Littlejohn moment

October 4, 2011 – 9:50 pm

Tweet 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 [...]

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‘Infantile’

September 26, 2011 – 10:30 pm

Tweet 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 [...]

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Richard Littlejohn and Baha Mousa

September 8, 2011 – 9:13 pm

Tweet 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 [...]

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What about the real news?

July 15, 2011 – 10:06 am

Tweet 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, [...]

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