India Knight - Hypocrite - Sunday Times

[Riviera]

This is a poor thread because I can't directly quote the Sunday Times.
(You need a subscription to get it online.)

Anyway, I just wanted to get it off my chest because I feel so angry.

In this week's edition India Knight, who I've trusted as a journalist for years, addressed the jailing of Charlie Gilmour, the son of Pink Floyd's Dave Gilmour.

Because she's a friend of the family she trotted out one of the most sickening defences I've ever seen in my life ......... she used every clichéd excuse you could imagine for why this 'sensitive boy' shouldn't have been locked up.

"Yes he was on LSD, slaughtered and had taken other drugs but so had other people."

"Yes he had swung from the Union flag on the Cenotaph war memorial, thrown missiles and sat on a car in the Royal convoy but is that so bad?"

What a vomit inducing hypocrite.

If this had been some benefit scrounging tosser she'd have crucified him but because he was a 'sensitive child' from an incredibly privileged background the authorities had 'cruelly made an example of him'.

I won't bother reading her column again which is a shame as I've always trusted her.

[chunkylover53]

Murdoch press = gutter press. You are a disgrace for reading it

[Medulla]

Oh well.

That's that then.

[Riviera]

Originally Posted by chunkylover53

Murdoch press = gutter press. You are a disgrace for reading it

I've always read it mate ........ if I boycoutted everything I have a problem with I'd be sat in a bare room staring out of the window

Originally Posted by Medulla

Oh well.

That's that then.

'Tis for me

[Harry Angstrom]

Originally Posted by chunkylover53

Murdoch press = gutter press. You are a disgrace for reading it

Sunday times is the only paper i buy now.

It's a cracking read.

[Fulwell Ender]

Got no truck with over priviledged tosspots, but got to say I thought 16 months a bit harsh when pissed morons who cowardly attack and hospitalise innocent people regularly get far less.

[chunkylover53]

Originally Posted by Fulwell Ender

Got no truck with over priviledged tosspots, but got to say I thought 16 months a bit harsh when pissed morons who cowardly attack and hospitalise innocent people regularly get far less.

you spelt Fullwell wrong mate

[Riviera]

Originally Posted by Fulwell Ender

Got no truck with over priviledged tosspots, but got to say I thought 16 months a bit harsh when pissed morons who cowardly attack and hospitalise innocent people regularly get far less.

Me anarl, but she was saying he shouldn't be locked up at all 'cos he's sensitive.

Does that mean you should be locked up if you're insensitive

[zinedine]

Originally Posted by Fulwell Ender

Got no truck with over priviledged tosspots, but got to say I thought 16 months a bit harsh when pissed morons who cowardly attack and hospitalise innocent people regularly get far less.

Yes, 16 months was harsh but they wanted to make an example of a high profile protester & he got it.
You call him over privileged & he probably is. In all honesty though I'd rather be from a poorer background & not have a life that is so dull that I have to use illegal drugs to brighten it up.

[GTG]

Didn't she drag out that old William Rees-Mogg quote from The Times in the 60s when Jagger and Richards were jailed "Who breaks a butterfly on a wheel?"

Actually, there are possible similarities in the situation:

The editorial, highly critical of the court's decision, is thought to have contributed to the success of Jagger's and Richards' appeal against the sentences.[8] It concluded "If we are going to make any case a symbol of the conflict between the sound traditional values of Britain and the new hedonism, then we must be sure that the sound traditional values include those of tolerance and equity. It should be the particular quality of British justice to ensure that Mr. Jagger is treated exactly the same as anyone else, no better and no worse. There must remain a suspicion in this case that Mr. Jagger received a more severe sentence than would have been thought proper for any purely anonymous young man."