That Jeremy Clarkson can write things like that, and publish them unashamed, tells us all we need to know about the way Rupert Murdoch has poisoned and rotted our public life.
Philip Pullman
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Philip Pullman
@PhilipPullman
Writer (His Dark Materials, etc). Read like a butterfly, write like a bee. 'Strangely wholesome' - Millie Hoskins, United Agents. Rejoiner.
Joined November 2013
- Of course Meghan Markle is attacked by the British press because she's black, and of course Prince Harry is right to defend her. What a foul country this is.
- Every day this country gets a little worse, and every day there's a little less we can do about it.
- To ban conversion therapy, so-called, is good. To make a deliberate exception for trans people is pure, cold-eyed evil. No justification, no reason, no excuse: just to appease the transphobes. Evil.
- Are we obliged to accept Boris Johnson as our prime minister if we play no part in the process of electing him? I don't recognise his right or his fitness to hold that office. Not my prime minister, thanks.
- In himself, Jeremy Clarkson is nothing: a brief loud noise and a brief bad smell. The arse that emitted him, as I said yesterday, is Rupert Murdoch.
- There comes a point in the history of a nation where stupidity is indistinguishable from wickedness. That's where we are now.
- Why is it that if you know someone's position on climate change, you also know their views about Brexit, teaching with phonics, ending the lockdown, and (in all probability) capital punishment?
- That pin-striped snake Jacob Rees-Mogg explaining how requiring voter ID at polling stations will prevent a problem that hasn't yet arisen made me choke on my lunch. It's a blatant attempt to stop poor people voting, and nothing else.
- Johnson ought to announce his plans to Parliament, not commandeer the TV in order to speak to the nation as if he was the supreme leader in a tinpot tyranny. Away with him.
- The 'prime minister' has finally come out as a dictator. I've had enough of being outraged. We must get rid of him and his loathsome gang as soon and as finally as possible.
- I can't find the words to express my profound admiration for the courage of women and girls in Iran who defy the oppressive hijab laws.
- Rees-Mogg is behaving like the sort of odious prep school creep whose dearest wish is to be Head Boy, and to stand beside the Master looking sanctimonious when other boys are being punished. This is what our system has produced.
- What Elon Musk means, when he talks about freedom of speech, is the freedom to lie without consequences.