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Paul Murray

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flyingrodent@flyingrodent.bsky.social · 22h ago

This is all horrific stuff, and I invite you to go back to 2018/19 and reread her columns, newspaper interviews and podcast appearances talking about it, and then decide who it sounds like it was, that had been doing all this.

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MeidasTouch@meidastouch.com · 22h ago

Gill: All 100 senators last week passed a non-binding resolution condemning any pardon for Ghislaine Maxwell. They're simultaneously considering confirming the guy who met with her and moved her to a low-security facility as the top cop in the United States. That is so insane to me.

Matt Blair@mjmbca.bsky.social · yesterday

After firing his label manager for refusing to release a pro-Israel single written with AI, Boy George uploaded the single to Bandcamp, who apparently removed it and deleted his account. stereogum.com/2507176/band...

Bandcamp Removes Boy George’s AI Pro-Israel Reggae Song

Last week, Boy George released “We Will Dance Again,” a reggae song that he made in support of Israel’s campaign of genocide. The song itself denies the term “genocide,” and Boy George claims that he ...

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Jane@localnotail.bsky.social · 2d ago

Rod Liddle has died. He blazed a trail from international socialist in Labour to the xenophobic "left conservatism" of zombie Social Democratic Party. He wrote for the Guardian until 2003, then increasingly curled out his stale pale male opinions in RW press. He'll mostly be remembered as a nonce.

Guardian Child protection: Should it really be a crime to look at child pornography? Rod Liddle Tue 14 Jan 2003 09.12 GMT I wanted to look at some pictures of child pornography from the internet this week and then tell you all about them, but I couldn't because my stupid modem broke down. I'm not sure how the law or, for that matter, society will view my failure. The intent, clearly, was there. In mitigation I suppose I could say I was planning to do it all on your behalf and would gain no pleasure from the operation myself. That's what I could say. In which case perhaps the policemen should turn up at your house instead. https://web.archive.org/web/20140910132320/https://www.theguardian.com/society/2003/jan/14/childprotection.rodliddleRod LiddleRod Liddle A teenage girl, a maths teacher and a righteous tabloid fury From magazine issue: 29 September 2012 https://archive.ph/GiW8v Rod Liddle article in THE SPECTATOR "I never found out because the one thing stopping me from being a teacher was that I could not remotely conceive of not trying to shag the kids. It seemed to me virtually impossible not to, and I was convinced that I'd be right in there, on day one. We're talking secondary school level here, by the way - and even then I don't think I'd have dabbled much below year ten, as it is now called. I just thought we ought to clear that up early on. At my old comprehensive..." ["I don't think I'd have dabbled much below year ten, as it is now called" = Year Ten is 14 to 15 years old] https://web.archive.org/web/20210316165538/https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/a-teenage-girl-a-maths-teacher-and-a-righteous-tabloid-fury