The furore over Richard Littlejohn has shed light on an important fact.
Not all of those "libertarian" and "contrarian" columnists are doing it from Florida, but for decades they have all worked from home.
Yet the lockdown has caused them all to have somewhere that they desperately needed to be.
And now they want to order everyone else "back to work".
Littlejohn has lived in Florida for 30 years, what the hell qualifies him to pontificate about Britain? He's 66, they should give the chance to someone who as a minimum lives less than four thousand miles away.
ReplyDeleteIn my brief sojourn on Telegraph Blogs, it was very striking indeed how many contributors lived in the United States. That seems to be quite normal in the right-wing media.
DeleteLittlejohn is brilliant and he’s hated by all the right people. He gets paid for a job he loves: triggering the leftie luvvies and associated snowflakes.
ReplyDeleteHe’s of course right. Nobody suggests the Daily Mail’s offices keep the high streets of Britain alive but thousands of retail and hospitality jobs are being lost due to our offices turning into ghost towns. Like the rest of the lockdown, it was an act of economic suicide.
It’s not Littlejohn’s job on the line. It’s millions of people working in our empty high streets.
No one has really read him in 20 years. Today's column is noteworthy only for the hilarious disclaimer at the end. Otherwise no one would have noticed that, either.
DeleteHe did make a very good radio documentary about the protest song tradition a couple of years ago. Based on that, his columns and books are all an act, anyway.