tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25656996.post1249628830196450014..comments2024-03-28T09:36:30.991+00:00Comments on David Lindsay: Face To FacebookDavid Lindsayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06839882674758833524noreply@blogger.comBlogger23125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25656996.post-70590045520729176072009-09-18T18:10:19.701+01:002009-09-18T18:10:19.701+01:00We could all do that if we didn't need to do a...We could all do that if we didn't need to do anything else. Heaven knows, his profile is not based on the *merits* of his better-known book.David Lindsayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06839882674758833524noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25656996.post-38901458825267436302009-09-18T18:02:25.153+01:002009-09-18T18:02:25.153+01:00I've only read articles of his - I haven't...I've only read articles of his - I haven't read his books. Your criticisms may be fair. But the fact that he has published two books may explain why he's a more regular media talking head than you are.Acenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25656996.post-86747128186931922452009-09-18T17:55:59.475+01:002009-09-18T17:55:59.475+01:00I'm very glad to hear it.
I haven't read ...I'm very glad to hear it.<br /><br />I haven't read Murray's biography of Lord Alfred Douglas, but his book on neoconservatism is hilariously bad, and I honestly believe that it couldn't be published now, even a very few years later than it was.<br /><br />The Axis of Evil really existed, Blair's mistake was to tell the public too much rather than too little about the grounds for war with Iraq, all sorts of nonsense like that.<br /><br />A bog standard tabloid right-wing wish list is included as the chapter on a neocon domestic policy for Britain, with no relationship whatever to the rest of the book. The history of the movement is rewritten to exclude mention, not just of Max Shachtman, but to Trotskyism at all.David Lindsayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06839882674758833524noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25656996.post-5419662785044272822009-09-18T17:38:16.864+01:002009-09-18T17:38:16.864+01:00Also, I definitely won't be voting for Cameron...Also, I definitely won't be voting for Cameron.Acenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25656996.post-7256492909226528762009-09-18T17:36:02.824+01:002009-09-18T17:36:02.824+01:00No, he doesn't have an accent when he writes. ...No, he doesn't have an accent when he writes. I was aware of him as a good writer long before I knew what he looked or sounded like.<br /><br />(I don't know what you sound like and, until you started putting your picture up, didn't know what you looked like either. I can only comment on your writing style.)Acenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25656996.post-38417859037242010032009-09-18T17:30:21.616+01:002009-09-18T17:30:21.616+01:00Ace, you're just a sucker for the accent. Peop...Ace, you're just a sucker for the accent. People like you put and kept Blair in, and would put and keep Cameron in. Is it just a posh thing, or is it specifically a posh Scottish thing?David Lindsayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06839882674758833524noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25656996.post-30434111305215659852009-09-18T17:28:19.680+01:002009-09-18T17:28:19.680+01:00No, he dresses like me. I am his senior.No, he dresses like me. I am his senior.David Lindsayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06839882674758833524noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25656996.post-86069116566859802942009-09-18T17:27:29.732+01:002009-09-18T17:27:29.732+01:00As I say, I don't agree with him on almost any...As I say, I don't agree with him on almost anything. But he's an articulate voice for a point of view, and a punchy writer. I wouldn't put you in quite the same league as a communicator, I'm afraid.Acenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25656996.post-55770162860348920042009-09-18T17:27:05.339+01:002009-09-18T17:27:05.339+01:00Murray was on QT before he was famous not the othe...Murray was on QT before he was famous not the other way round. It's like Thought for the Day or The Moral Maze. Not what you know.<br /><br />You dress like him.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25656996.post-42343063437465355352009-09-18T17:23:49.103+01:002009-09-18T17:23:49.103+01:00And what was either Murray (who is younger than I ...And what was either Murray (who is younger than I am) or his "think tank" before he started popping up on the telly? Just someone with no need to work because he was on to inherit that half of Scotland which will not be inherited by David Cameron.David Lindsayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06839882674758833524noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25656996.post-89811602448550832972009-09-18T17:17:46.810+01:002009-09-18T17:17:46.810+01:00Well, I've heard of Douglas Murray - I first c...Well, I've heard of Douglas Murray - I first came across him in (approximately) 2005, and he's popped up regularly in the media since then touting various reports he's published with his pet think tank. I disagree with almost everything he says, but he's an articulate voice for a point of view, and I don't object to him being on the panel. His profile, love him or hate him, is very significantly higher than yours.<br /><br />As for the point about plummy fundraisers: well, as I say, I don't watch every week. But I've never seen anyone there I'd never heard of.Acenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25656996.post-80248957098426544022009-09-18T17:11:41.996+01:002009-09-18T17:11:41.996+01:00Esther Rantzen has been on both Question Time and ...Esther Rantzen has been on both Question Time and Any Questions this year, both times specifically billed as Independent candidate for Watford. Are all Independent candidates entitled to this coverage? If not why not?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25656996.post-9359974012359806122009-09-18T17:03:54.010+01:002009-09-18T17:03:54.010+01:00Anonymous, believe it when you see it. There'l...Anonymous, believe it when you see it. There'll be trouble, and plenty of it.<br /><br />Ace, well, that rather proves my point. Nothing about them stuck in the mind except that nothing about them stuck in the mind. Plummy ladies billed as charity fundraisers or whatever, their apparent daughters whose very billing escapes me, Douglas Murray, that sort of thing.<br /><br />Say what you like about me, but I'd stick in the mind.David Lindsayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06839882674758833524noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25656996.post-58640944921929046102009-09-18T16:55:29.972+01:002009-09-18T16:55:29.972+01:00The Labour Party has indicated that either John De...The Labour Party has indicated that either John Denham or Jack Straw will be put up against Griffin. I think the other main parties have agreed to appear alongside him, but I don't know if they've named particular spokespeople.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25656996.post-90339728196009213092009-09-18T16:53:55.791+01:002009-09-18T16:53:55.791+01:00Who are you thinking of? I've never seen anyon...Who are you thinking of? I've never seen anyone I'd never heard of on a QT panel, but I don't watch every week.Acenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25656996.post-84110155847010660062009-09-18T16:53:20.834+01:002009-09-18T16:53:20.834+01:00But they are all going to say no. People more obsc...But they are all going to say no. People more obscure than I have been on it in recent years, apparently picked at random from David Dimbleby's high society address book.<br /><br />Compared to several of them, my Telegraph and American Conservative blogs, and my articles on Comment Is Free, in The First Post, in The Brussels Journal and elsewhere, compare quite well. But that's not about how well-known I am. It's how well-known they're not. Still, though, they have been on.David Lindsayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06839882674758833524noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25656996.post-66586273507783562862009-09-18T16:46:57.034+01:002009-09-18T16:46:57.034+01:00Much as I have confidence that you'd be capabl...Much as I have confidence that you'd be capable of holding your own in an argument with Nick Griffin, shouldn't Question Time panellists be either national politicians or people with some sort of public profile?<br /><br />You should see if you can be in the audience and ask a question.Acenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25656996.post-92039952953955968642009-09-18T16:36:34.071+01:002009-09-18T16:36:34.071+01:00Oh, I've already made one new Friend through i...Oh, I've already made one new Friend through it. And this is really still the first day.David Lindsayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06839882674758833524noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25656996.post-87564230913554935532009-09-18T16:21:44.944+01:002009-09-18T16:21:44.944+01:00That doesn't surprise me - I'd expect ther...That doesn't surprise me - I'd expect there to be significant crossover. After all, "Everyone else will have said no".Dwainenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25656996.post-36436178373341253432009-09-18T16:20:28.064+01:002009-09-18T16:20:28.064+01:00Still, as I say, so many members of the other two ...Still, as I say, so many members of the other two (which I did not create) have joined it, that they both now appear as Related Groups.David Lindsayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06839882674758833524noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25656996.post-63010138371554951572009-09-18T16:15:53.855+01:002009-09-18T16:15:53.855+01:00You had to set it up yourself? I'm shocked, sh...You had to set it up yourself? I'm shocked, shocked.Dwainenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25656996.post-12893772279322332892009-09-18T14:10:07.568+01:002009-09-18T14:10:07.568+01:00I can vouch for the sincerity of numerous people i...I can vouch for the sincerity of numerous people in this one. The sobriety, on the other hand...David Lindsayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06839882674758833524noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25656996.post-72446111480531235822009-09-18T13:54:11.347+01:002009-09-18T13:54:11.347+01:00I would caution you that most people who join Face...I would caution you that most people who join Facebook groups do not do so in a spirit of sober sincerity.T-shirtnoreply@blogger.com