Amidst the latest Rod Liddle furore I found this little nuggetArchived Message
Posted by Raskolnikov on December 7, 2021, 6:38 pm
The Liddle stuff is the usual head of Uni (Durham) invites Liddle to speak at their formal, but without telling anyone who the speaker would be. Some students leave when it's revealed to be the Millwall Nonce and then get accused of being snowflakes. Cue culture war frothing but this was a good point:
Anyone ever asked David Baddiel why he still writes regularly for the Spectator despite the Spectator still employing Rod Liddle, Douglas Murray, Julie Burchill and many other far-right journalists?
Concerned about racism but apparently not so much when he's getting paid for appearing with them.
Liddle is horrendous though as a quick glance through all his old garbage that is being recycled on Twitter right now will demonstrate. The "I'm a humourist" excuse fell by the wayside long ago now it's "It's free speech". Yeh maybe the right to say whatever tedious hate-filled bollocks you were going to say should be a right but that doesn't mean you have the right to force people to listen to a #### like you.