Quote of the day

"Read what the devil you like. The only thing I should like to read is the death-notice of a vast number of particular people."

D H Lawrence writing to E M Forster in June 1915.

And don't I know just how he feels. Fuckwits - they're everywhere. Take last night, for instance. The guest on 'This Week' (the politics show that follows 'Question Time') was historian David Starkey. He proceeded in the most odiously pompous way to lecture to Andrew Neill, Michael Portillo and Diane Abbott about the need to abolish the welfare state - his argument ostensibly being that it's unprecedented historically speaking (what kind of a fucking argument is that?!), that America provides a shining example for Britain to follow and that Blair needs to have a "Thatcherite moment of realisation" - before going on to label politics "dead" and all those involved with it (including Neill, Portillo and Abbott) "hollow". And then he sat back with this horrible little smug grin on his lips. It was at this point that I switched off.