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Don't Look Ethel!

Context is everything

We're sure Graeme Archer on ConservativeHome has lots of friends who are black, but this screenshot of latest comments from his latest piece doesn't do his inner city credentials any good at all:… read more…
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Channelling David Icke on CiF

If there's probably one place where you shouldn't mention crackpot Jewish conspiracy theories (even to fisk them) it's Comment is Free, where the commentators can go from the subject of cabbage farming in outer Patagonia to the malign influence of "Israel" on world affairs in one move. With this in… read more…
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Have Your Say is Revolting!

We all knew that the end of days would begin thus: by the arrival of the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, or "Have Your Say" commentators as they are sometimes known. And they're all getting a little over-excited. From the trenches of the BBC moderation department, revolution is brewing, and… read more…
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The Great Norkage Divide

There's an interesting discussion going on chez Finkelstein over whether Theresa May and Jacqui Smith are displaying too much cleavage in the Chamber. Westmonster feels that the sentiments behind this "debate" are best summed up by the commentator known as Jan: I don't agree with Daniel Finkelstein.Cleavage of any sort… read more…
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A rift in the Union

The Oxford Union event on free speech, to which Holocaust denier David Irving and BNP leader Nick Griffin have been invited to start channelling Voltaire, has produced much comment on the blogosphere and beyond. James Forsyth in the Spectator draws the distinction between the freedom of speech which is a… read more…
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Cameron on rape: he's just asking for it

Whilst the Boy David's "rape is bad, mmmkay?" speech has gone down well with most women's groups, such far-left pinko commie, man-hating feminazi stylings did not find support everywhere. And by "everywhere" we mean "amongst the Daily Mail readership." The comments at the bottom of this article provide a salutary lesson that whilst you… read more…
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Do you trust the police to keep you safe?

So queries the Telegraph of its readers. And they? Well, what do you think? The police no longer serve the people but instead are tame servants of lying power-crazed, corrupt political masters in and out of the force who use them to control, not protect, the masses. Why should we… read more…
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Cherie Booth: asking for it on CiF

There's plenty Westmonster likes about Cherie Booth - not least her delightful habit of inducing mild apoplexy in commentators from our more right-wing organs of record who reckon that the job of a woman in public life is to remain silent, be fruity at all times, and not have a… read more…
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Cracker from the Torygraph

Having suffered a brief bout of socialist guilt as to whether pointing and laughing at loons commenting on a Telegraph article (subject: The Gays) was akin to pitching up at Hanwell asylum in the 1890s to taunt the inmates, Westmonster has now moved on and got her prodding stick at the… read more…
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Just say NO! (to free lunches)

A BBC Have Your Say discussion on whether children should be given free school lunches to encourage healthy eating and assist with concentration in class has yielded this gem from Jim Jam: No, I (without children) should not pay for someone else's child to have a 'free' school lunch. If… read more…
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