Spectator: Frankie, What's Good?

The Anatomy Of A Catholic Civil War.

If only the chidren of Sodom would tear the church apart...

Reader's Comment Of The Day: The Spectator

"Atheist and gay, Frederick the Great was more radical than most leaders today"

That should read, 'Atheist and homosexual, Frederick the Great was more radical than most leaders today'

Why is The Spectator giving voice for Marxist saboteurs of Western Civilization, who use 'gay' for 'homosexual', knowing that a 'homosexual agenda' would be clearly seen as sabotage of Western Civilization, hence the more pleasant sounding 'gay agenda'. Similar is the term 'marriage equality', a slogan meant to preclude an objection to same sex marriage. But when persons are reminded what marriage is for (including those who are homosexual/lesbian), that being to socialize children into the worlds of men AND women, then we clearly see the (1) imbecility of the slogan 'marriage equality'; and (2) Marxist design to destroy Western Civilization by destroying children's critical parental bi-gender socialization.

Well said Spectator reader Dean Jackson!

High time someone exposed The Spectator's role in the great Marxist/homosexual conspiracy.

PS The clearly sane Mr Jackson is rather fond of leaving comments on his cruelly ignored theory.

Brendan O'Neill Watch: Paedophile Panic

Brendan O'Neill, The Spectator.

Fagburn would like to have quoted something from this, but it's difficult as, like so much that O'Neill writes, it's just a series of non sequiturs.

I can confirm though, that the statement made in the title is correct.

PS There's a more coherent piece by Luke Gittos on Spiked, Harvey Proctor Has Got A Point - It is time to end this witch-hunting of old, often homosexual, men.

Spectator: And On That Bombshell!

Blah blah blah Pride Ukip Miners gay marriage Stonewall Green Party Israel Tatchell Muslims wibble...

The Spectator.

PS For reasons of balance here's an article from the Morning Star Resisting the rise of pink capitalism.

Charles Moore: Or Less?

Now that Ireland has voted Yes to same-sex marriage, it will be widely believed that this trend is unstoppable and those who oppose it will end up looking like people who supported the slave trade. It is possible. But in fact history has many examples of admired ideas which look like the future for a bit and then run out of steam — high-rise housing, nationalisation, asbestos, Esperanto, communism. The obsession with gay rights and identity, and especially with homosexual marriage, seems to be characteristic of societies with low birth rates and declining global importance. Rising societies with growing populations see marriage as the key to the future of humanity, so they think it must be between a man and a woman. Only when countries like India, Nigeria or Egypt introduce same-sex marriage will I retract the above.

Charles Moore's Notes, The Spectator.

Luj el ni ankoraŭ teni kandelon por Esperanto kaj komunismo.*

* [Some of us still hold a candle for Esperanto and communism].

Paedomania: Spectating

Rod Liddle and Matthew Parris in The Spectator on a very British witch hunt.

This is all going to get so ridiculous...

'People can make accusations, can infer guilt by association, can assert grandly. They can draw cartoons of murky establishments and of eyes under lifted stones. They may be right, they may be wrong. But only the evidence can tell you which it is. And in the past fortnight we have entered a zone heavy on claim and light on substance.' David Aaronovitch, The Times.

Sad but true - this bout of paedomania seems to be bringing out a lot of people's inner David Icke.

PS And Stephen Fry speaks out against Operation Yewtree at a Labour party do, in apparent defence of his chum Paul Gambaccini.

Cake Topper Watch: Cameron/Farage

Joint Ukip candidates is Farage's second-best option, The Spectator.

Julie Bindel: Why I've Always Hated...

It was early evening and I had not yet eaten, so I took a glass of wine and a packet of Haribos into the private screening of I Am Divine: the story of Divine. I touched neither, because early on in the film I felt a little sick. I’m unsure as to whether that queasiness was a result of the mention of dog excrement (more anon) or the scale of misogyny contained within its 90 minutes...

Footage from Divine’s one and only appearance on Top of the Pops (he was banned as a result of complaints about obscenity) in 1984 singing ‘You Think You’re a Man’ reminded me why I always hated drag. Feminists at the time of the TOTP atrocity labelled Divine ‘woman hating’.

So by the time, towards the end of the film, we were treated to footage of Divine in Pink Flamingos eating dog excrement, I was pretty sure I wasn’t going to want dinner that evening. The fact that it was alluded to at the beginning of the film (it being the stuff of cinematic legend) made the rest of the film pretty unpalatable.

Julie Bindel - who else! - writes for Britain's best-selling right-wing magazine, The Spectator.

A bizarre lesbore who hates gay men and trans women - so tries to justify it with endless ridiculous bilious articles about how they hate women.

I guess she must practice being dull and sanctimonious.

Anyway, hope that slag-off by the dreadful Bindel's left you gagging to see the film - here's the all-singing all dancing website.

And here's a video interview with the director Jeffrey Schwarz at Flare: The BFI London Lesbian & Gay Film Festival.. 

Gay Marriage: Now Be Good!

As inexorably as night follows day and push comes to shove, so the words ‘Tory’ and ‘scandal’ seem destined to conjoin with ‘Brazilian’ and ‘rent-boy’. Yet the main response to the allegations about Mark Menzies MP last weekend was neither laughter or condemnation, but pity. The tone was similar to that recently adopted by Jeremy Paxman when interviewing the disgraced former Co-op chairman Paul Flowers. How sad, it seemed to sigh, in this day and age. Is there anything we can do?

Well yes, in fact: it has just been done — and among other things it is likely to prove this sighing a phase. Because although there certainly was a time when gay people could be the objects of pity, viewed as tragic individuals weighed down by society’s unjust attitudes, all this has changed. The most recent change is that since last weekend gay men and women are now allowed the right to full and equal civil marriage in Britain...

Douglas Murray, The Spectator.

Britain's leading right-wing magazine tells The Gays to keep it in their overpriced underpants.

The Spectator: Putin's Secret Plan

Now, after two decades in the economic basket, Russia is decisively back as an ideological force in the world — this time as a champion of conservative values. In his annual state of the nation speech to Russia’s parliament in December, Vladimir Putin assured conservatives around the world that Russia was ready and willing to stand up for ‘family values’ against a tide of liberal, western, pro-gay propaganda ‘that asks us to accept without question the equality of good and evil’. Russia, he promised, will ‘defend traditional values that have made up the spiritual and moral foundation of civilisation in every nation for thousands of years’. Crucially, Putin made it clear that his message was directed not only at Russians — who have already been protected from ‘promotion of non-traditional relationships’ by recent legislation — but for ‘more and more people across the world who support our position’.

He's on to something...

A pot pourri of conspiracy theory, conjecture, nonsense and non sequiturs in that noted champion of gay rights, The Spectator.
Luckily there are no right-wing New Cold Warriors in the West that ab/use the LGBT community as a soft power play.
Like by cherry-picking which countries to criticise and demonise over how they treat gay people, for example. 

This issue also contains an unwittingly hilarious article by Julie Burchill about 'intersectionality' and being accused of transphobia, which after spewing bile and insults in all directions like Regan in The Exorcist, concludes...

Here’s hoping that the in-fighting in-crowd of intersectionality disappear up their own intersection really soon, so the rest of us can resume creating a tolerant and united socialism.

Err...

Update: Paris Lees replies to La Burchill. 

Putin: Skating On Thin Ice

The Economist on why someone waving a silly rainbow flag or not drinking Coke for a fortnight is the least of Putin's problems.

Great cover.

And here's America's most right-wing gay commentator James "Rainbow Suspenders" Kirchick writing for Britain's biggest right-wing magazine, The Spectator, about you-know-what. Zzz...

Update: Fans of reasoned, informed political debate, not hysterical right-wing posturing, may enjoy Gevorg Mirzayan; Sochi 2014 Boycott Would Have Been Counterproductive - who points out how no political leader is 'snubbing' the games, and besides there's a whole raft of serious differences and tensions between Russia and the West right now.
There's little things like Syria and Ukraine and that.

It's not all about The Gays, you know, The Gays!

Matthew Parris: Now Then!

It was a writer I admire tremendously (I think The Spectator’s Paul Johnson has often been touched by genius) who stung me into the rudest piece I’ve ever written: aimed at him, as it happens, and the first of a series for this magazine which has this week continued for exactly 18 years. In his And Another Thing column on 6 January 1996, Mr Johnson had written this: ‘[John] Major is constantly being praised, most recently in this journal, by Matthew Parris, a self-outed protagonist of queerdom whom I think of as the Times Sodom Correspondent (they have a stringer in Gomorrah too, but mum’s the word about him). So the homosexuals like Major.’

This was not Mr Johnson’s first foray into such territory. Two years earlier he had opened an essay headlined ‘From children to rent boys in one parliamentary vote’ by remarking, ‘Nothing is more disagreeable than having to write about male homosexuality….’ but had in fact put himself dutifully through the ordeal with surprising regularity, writing a year later that ‘the theft of this word [‘gay’] by Californian sodomites … and cravenly acquiesced in by lazy sub-editors … who should know better, means that many fine old songs are now completely unperformable.’ Mr Johnson’s defence of linguistic standards has never been extended to protect that good old-fashioned word ‘queer’ in its original meaning, and some fine old sayings like ‘there’s nowt so queer as folk’ still await rescue. So does ‘faggot’.

Matthew Parris in The Spectator re-igniting an 18 year-old feud.

No, me neither.

Please also note illustration of some gayers pictured recently in modern Athens.

The Spectator's just so with it!

Paul Flowers: Spectator Sport

The cover of this week's Spectator starring a feature about Paul Flowers by... Melanie Phillips!
It's not out yet, but apparently Mad Mel doesn't mention his sexuality.
We shall see...

PS And here it is - and it does - but you only need to read the title really, the rest is filler.

The Revd Paul Flowers ticked all the right 'progressive' boxes — that's why he could get away with anything

The Spectator: Homophobes Of The Year

News reaches No. 22 that rising star of the right Milo Yiannopoulos, of Catholic Herald and tech-world fame, is to be nominated for Stonewall’s ‘Homophobe of the Year’. The news has come as a surprise to the flamboyant Yiannopoulos, who, despite arguing forcefully against gay marriage on Channel 4′s risible 10 O’Clock Live, has never made a secret of his own sexuality.
Then again, headlines such as ‘The lingering stench of gay marriage’, published after an appearance on Newsnight earlier in the year, may have contributed to the nomination. But the waspish columnist, recently dubbed the ‘pit bull of tech media’ by the Observer, need not worry about winning: Mr Steerpike understands that he’s up against Ken Livingstone.

Steerpike, The Spectator blogs.

After the "flamboyant" (!) Milo Yiannopoulos bemoaned his fate, Stonewall's Ben Summerskill took to Twitter to explain;
"Sadly both the Milo Yiannopoulos and Ken Livingstone fictions in this report were completely invented and unchecked by The Spectator."
But apart from that - great story!

PS Milo is a right-wing posh spaz, though. May this blogpost be the result of a queeny Tory spat of which we lesser mortals know nothing? Who can say?