“On a side note, the Tories are also left with pie on their faces”

Not the posters on ConHome and Guido, they were baying for Spelman’s blood!

Gilligan is employed by the Islamic Republic of Iran’s propaganda TV station, Press TV.

Press TV publishes Holocaust denial material.

*Is* Andrew Gilligan still taken seriously?

Well, he still writes for the Evening Standard – so that must mean someone does, foolishly.

Richard – don’t think all of them were Tories, especially not on Guido (who will bay for anyone’s blood really)

Is the Evening Standard taken particularly seriously?

Who buys it?

“Is the Evening Standard taken particularly seriously?

Who buys it?”

Your writers apparently.

Isn’t it odd that there’s been a revert-war on Wikipedia about Dave Hill and Adam’s sockpuppeting allegations but not about his employment on Press TV? Which one’s more scandalous, I wonder?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Andrew_Gilligan

The Standard today has a piece correctly pointing out that replacing bendy buses costs more, which directly contradicts something Gilligan wrote a few months back when he was using his position as King Bendy Basher to have a go at me. That in itself is a considerable improvement in journalistic standards.

The Standard today has a piece correctly pointing out that replacing bendy buses costs more, which directly contradicts something Gilligan wrote a few months back when he was using his position as King Bendy Basher to have a go at me. That in itself is a considerable improvement in journalistic standards.

Ooooh! are we likely to see a humiliating climbdown by Gilligan?

Gilligan has no credibility left. The fact that the Standard still keeps him on tells you all you need to know about that Tory rag.

“Why is Andrew Gilligan taken seriously?”

Is he? I dimly recall him having something to do with the WMD/Iraq story in which his personal characteristics didn’t exactly shine, although he did expose some less-than-exemplary behaviour on the part of the government. Since then, I haven’t read a single piece or heard or seen a single broadcast from him. His credibility is very low down the list of things I care about.

Is this a London thing?

He’s being taken seriously by you anyway, otherwise why bother writing about him?!

PS I’m in Chicago and thought you would enjoy the fact that at breakfast just now I overheard some “yuppies” as we would have called them a while back complaining loudly about Obama’s “class war”!

“He’s being taken seriously by you anyway, otherwise why bother writing about him?!”

Nobody gives a flying fig where you are writing from troll or what you have to say.

All you do is repeat your right wing talking points. No doubt your yuppie friends got the message from Fox which is running a big “Obama is a communist line. ”

Class war is always fought by the capitalist brown shirts.

The Evening Standard is changing, subtly but definitely, since the change of ownership. And as London’s only proper daily newspaper (not to mention one which still supports the freesheet London Lite) it has to be taken seriously. It is in every Londoner’s interest that it contains quality journalism and not biased tat. That’s why it’s worth bothering.