Friday 20 January 2023

You See That David Baddiel?

David Baddiel has been giving the benefit of his wisdom to the Welsh Deputy Minister for Social Services, Julie Morgan, who has organised a Holocaust Memorial Day event to commemorate Gypsy, Roma and Traveller victims. According to Baddiel, this is "softcore Holocaust denial", on the authority of Professor Deborah Lipstadt, who disapproves of his mixed marriage.

Baddiel has been in two comedy partnerships, and in both cases the other bloke has been the funny one. For many years, he hardly appeared at all except as a guest on one of Frank Skinner's shows. Baddiel never did like it softcore. Yet in his late fifties, he wants to reinvent himself as a public intellectual and a moral authority, by taking up a cause that places him beyond criticism.

I told you in the Corbyn years that they would come for you eventually; that anti-Semitism was the unanswerable, catchall charge for shutting down any dissent from elite liberal-capitalist opinion. Now have a word with Andrew Bridgen. And it is not that I have an anti-vaxxer bone in my body. Try sharing a cell with an anti-vaxxer. But the point stands.

2 comments:

  1. The Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Act is viciously anti-GRT.

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    1. And Labour, which abstained on, has no policy to repeal it.

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