Comments on: Melanie Phillips explains Gramsci

By: | bella gerens | Phillips v. Osler: battle of the Gramscians |

| bella gerens | Phillips v. Osler: battle of the Gramscians | — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 15:59:19 +0000

[...] actually get around to reading her article until today, however, when I happened across David Osler’s reaction to it on Liberal Conspiracy. Presented with an argument by somebody I tend to disagree with, and a refutation by somebody I [...]

By: Cheesy Monkey

Cheesy Monkey — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 22:07:14 +0000

Clearly Hell’s Mel doesn’t understand Critical Theory.

Anyway, here’s my, um critical theory: I think she’s not got long left as clearly Dacre’s mutant spunk is dissolving her septic brains…

By: Bearded Socialist

Bearded Socialist — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 18:34:13 +0000

Torture for her – that’s the point.
Also the fact she’d have to come into contact with facts

By: KB Player

KB Player — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 17:30:41 +0000

Mad Mel in a library, now that would be torture

Torture for her, everyone going Ssssh, Ssssh at her.

By: Bearded Socialist

Bearded Socialist — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 12:20:29 +0000

30. Kojak
I thank you.

31
Mad Mel in a library, now that would be torture

By: FlyingRodent

FlyingRodent — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 11:39:59 +0000

Do you have a particular Gulag in mind where she can recieve treatment until she agrees with you?

I think a few years in a library might do her more good, preferably researching logic and critical thinking.

By: Kojak

Kojak — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 11:31:32 +0000

Bearded Socialist re: Comment 29,

To you sir, I doff my bowler hat.
You truely are a comrade with a sense of humour.

By: Bearded Socialist

Bearded Socialist — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 11:24:48 +0000

Having looked up on google what a Lada is, i think it only right she’s put on bendy buses to get there

By: Bearded Socialist

Bearded Socialist — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 11:23:42 +0000

she’s a wind-up merchant. Part of her success is that she riles the likes of us, so we can have a little pop back at her for winding us up. She certainly does that well, she makes steam come out of my ears.
As long as it’s light hearted and not too serious, there’s little wrong with it. It’s not serious, but shouldn’t be taken as serious.

By: Kojak

Kojak — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 11:22:24 +0000

Bearded Socialist re: Comment 24,

Any idea how big your carbon footprint will be if you use your Lada to take her there?

By: Kojak

Kojak — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 11:19:30 +0000

Frollix22 re: Comment 25,

Me, a troll?

Would that make Bearded Socialist’s comment 24 a ‘Counter-troll statement’?

Don’t be daft bandying around the word troll just because I show some discomfort at how people on this board delight in having a go at Melanie Phillips.

You might not think she reaches the right conclusions but let’s not bury our heads in the sand and pretend some of the issues she discusses are of no concern.

By: frolix22

frolix22 — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 10:59:57 +0000

Oh dear, Kojak. Are you deteriorating into an outright troll? Comment 23 suggests so, sadly.

By: Bearded Socialist

Bearded Socialist — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 10:59:14 +0000

Thanks.
You forgot you put ‘treatment’ between two apostrophes.
The Bearded Socialist Gulag for the Criminally Right Wing should do

By: Kojak

Kojak — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 10:48:47 +0000

Bearded Socialist re: Comment 22,

Said like a true socialist.
Do you have a particular Gulag in mind where she can recieve treatment until she agrees with you?

By: Bearded Socialist

Bearded Socialist — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 10:44:47 +0000

I’ll admit that her possible influence worries me.
But anyone that mental worries me, she should be getting the treatment she needs rather than more people agreeing with her, they only encourage her

By: Kojak

Kojak — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 10:37:34 +0000

Boys and Girls,

It does amuse me how all of you are so frightened of Melanie Phillips.

You all seem to think she is Ellsworth Toohey.

Oh, the irony – you couldn’t make it any funnier.

By: Jonathan Bygraves

Jonathan Bygraves — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 03:43:55 +0000

Haha! Gramsci explained for Daily Mail readers… I've seen it all now RT @libcon Melanie Phillips explains Gramsci http://bit.ly/4FI8JV

By: Nicholas Stewart

Nicholas Stewart — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 03:29:07 +0000

#LiberalConspiracy Melanie Phillips explains Gramsci http://tinyurl.com/ylq7fyd #dailyfail

By: Chris C

Chris C — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 02:43:29 +0000

What this is, right…

…after spending four years studying Gramsci in detail, Melanie Phillips comes along and tries to summarise it in a newspaper column and gets it drastically wrong. I still rock up, read it and think, “hey, maybe she’s read stuff I haven’t read?”

I think she has. I think she’s read something that doesn’t exist. I think Mel’s turned so bulletheaded that she can’t really read anything except what she wants to read in things.

She’s so popular because she can say the stupid things that people think in a very eloquent manner. People often mistake eloquence in the proposition for actual substance.

By: Mike Ward

Mike Ward — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 02:17:41 +0000

Discussion of Mad Mel on Gramsci: http://bit.ly/3kqePb – absolutely splendid article

By: Bearded Socialist

Bearded Socialist — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 16:53:34 +0000

Dagenham?
Mad Mel is Southend Central

By: Bearded Socialist

Bearded Socialist — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 16:50:37 +0000

She’d be funny if she wasn’t
a) mental
b) read by so many people.

Ah, those liberal fascists they’re always going on about. How everyone has to be a liberal, and those that aren’t are, well, you’re right, not carried off in the middle of the night. They are tolerated! Shock horror.
Besides, Phillips and her like only believe in free speech for themselves and being bloody great wind-up merchants

By: Martin Coxall

Martin Coxall — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 16:33:12 +0000

If our revolutionary fervour is strict, we have no need of fun.

By: Shatterface

Shatterface — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 16:17:12 +0000

I seam to remember Gramsci was a bit of a prude and a killjoy because free love and having a good time was sapping revolutionary fervour.

Perhaps he and Flip aren’t so far apart after all.

By: Shatterface

Shatterface — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 16:09:08 +0000

We’ve got a Slag Lane.

Just saying.