Melanie Phillips Watch: Stephen Fry Must Die!!!

"The actor and comic Stephen Fry is considered by some to be a national treasure who adds greatly to the gaiety of the nation," The Daily Mail's fruitcake fumes in her column today.
Obviously Mr Fry's real offence is his "gaiety", but do go on Melanie...
"It’s a role to which he self-consciously plays up as raconteur, wit and genial host for any TV occasion. But why, then, does he feel compelled so egregiously to abuse this privileged position?
"At the weekend, a preview was published of a self-regarding interview to be transmitted on TV in June in which Fry talks about the fact that he was addicted to cocaine for a period of 15 years.
"Did he express any concern or remorse about this addiction, any insight into the harm it may have done to his health or career — or indeed, to anyone else in his life? No, there was not one syllable of regret..."
Not so much as a "Soz"? What a bastard!
Phillips continues seemingly without pausing for breath - or indeed thought;
"If this is what Fry thinks passes for wit, then the drugs he has taken have clearly affected more of his brain than might be thought."
Phillips is on very shaky ground here, as the column dutifully turns into one of her hilariously incoherent rants that then goes on to take badly aimed swipes at Kate Moss, John Galliano, Charlie Sheen and Oliver Stone.
What on earth could Melanie Phillips be on?

Galliarseholegate: With Friends Like These

Today's front page of The Guardian tests the limits of censorship by featuring a photograph of a giant prick.
"A man outside the Rodin museum in Paris disagrees with the departure of John Galliano, fired by Dior for alleged [sic] antisemitic remarks..."
Oh do fuck off.

Karl Lagerfeld: A Horrible Image For Fashion

Now I don't care about you, but me and the rest of the entire world have been waiting with bad breath to find out what Karl Lagerfeld has to say about John Galliarsehole's racist outburst.
Good news! M. Lagerfeld is quoted on WWD.com;
“I’m furious, if you want to know. I’m furious that it could happen, because the question is no longer even whether he really said it. The image has gone around the world. It’s a horrible image for fashion, because they think that every designer and everything in fashion is like this. This is what makes me crazy in that story..."
Thanks for clearing that up.
Fashion fact! Karl Lagerfeld is the only man in the world who dresses even worse than John Galliarsehole.

Julie Burchill: Change The Record, Love

Julie Burchill's weekly column really has become a stuck record.
Today we get her two centimes on racist scumbag John Galliano;
"If John Galliano had confined himself to insulting the Jews, he could probably have got away with it after a period of contrition. Mel Gibson, after all, had his defenders when he said that Jews start all the wars in the world, such as the writer Andrew O'Hagan. But then Gibson had to throw the N-word into the mix, as Galliano did with Asians; their gooses were cooked when they contravened the PCP rules on who it's ok to hate these days."
This is errant nonsense. Galliano's goose was cooked when that video emerged of his anti-semitic tirade. And he was already good and stuffed.
As she's got another few hundred words to file she then moves briskly onto gay marriage (a week or so late, natch);
"So the Archbishop of Canterbury has drawn a line in the sand, and sworn that Adam and Steve will never become husband and husband in one of "his" buildings. Still sucking up to Islam, are we, Ro-Wi?"
To which the only possible response is... Eh?
Both these choices of subject today are of course mere springboards to enable Ms Burchill to bellyflop into two of her favourite subjects; Israel is wonderful, Islam is evil.
Two subjects that she returns to in The Independent week after week after week ad nauseum.
Pass the sickbag, Julie.

Know Your Enemy 4: John Galliano

"The flamboyant designer was briefly arrested after allegedly accosting a couple at La Perle bar, near his home. The couple, a Jewish woman and her Asian boyfriend, told French radio Europe 1 he had said to them: "Dirty Jewish face, you should be dead" and "Fucking Asian bastard, I will kill you". He allegedly repeatedly called the woman "ugly" and a "slag". A police official said that Galliano also exchanged slaps with the couple. The row began at around 9pm at the bar known for its hip fashion clientele..."

From The Guardian - and all papers.
Yup, a gay man called J Galliano in being a total arsehole shock!
The only good thing that may come out of this disgusting - alleged - incident is that Mr Galliano may become a pariah.
But the fa-fa fashion world is so dumb dumb dumb I bet it'll all be forgiven and forgotten by next week.
And further, Fagburn has never understood how a top fashion designer could constantly dress like a total prick.

Update: Dior sacked the cunt on March 1st after footage emerged showing Galliano saying all Jews should be "fucking gassed". It appears this was far from being an isolated episode.
Anyone?