This week I found hell by returning to my left-wing former workplace. It’s a progressive kind of hell, I’ll give it that, but hell nonetheless. What I figured out in hell is that right-wing media types are, at times, much more fun than left-wing media types. Read more »
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Part-time Bastard: Medical beauty
This week, the writer trapped between her old left wing paper, and her new fascist one is being forced to think about how bloody imperfect women are.
This week there’s been a proper hoo-ha at the left-wing paper. The hoo-ha, started by a columnist, was over “the media’s general approach to journalism”. My left-wing paper likes to write in tongues. By “media” they actually meant my right-wing paper and by “general approach” they meant female confessional journalism. They reckon that this style of journalism is degrading and misogynistic – which it is. But although in previous lives I’ve been 100 per cent with my colleague on the left-wing paper, I still felt pretty torn. I mean, the right-wing paper has always been so encouraging to me. I also feel I’ve earned a little me-time. So, this week I had a bash at degrading myself and my gender. Read more »
Part time bastard: Writing for the enemy
I recently lost half my job at a left-wing paper. I wasn’t bitter. I just started writing for a right-wing newspaper in my spare time. At first I was like, Ha, fuck you, irony. I’m like a double agent or one of the C-Five who snuck into Cambridge University and rose to high levels in various parts of the civil service. Except I’m not doing PPE, I’m writing about why motherhood is more important than feet and sunlight. I thought perhaps I could subvert capitalism from the inside, introduce readers to a little tacit left-wing chutzpah. That was bullshit though. Read more »
The top 20 things to do this summer
Every year, at around this time, lists of what to do in the summer are drawn up all over Fleet Street (like this one, this one, a couple of them here and here, this puppy, this bad boy and this doozy.) Unlike bears, who come out of hibernation and do some shit in the spring, our broadsheet pals settle in for a snooze, safe in the knowledge that last year’s summer list can be safely recycled and distributed in the form of six heavy supplements, one of which will include some advice on “green” summer activities. None of these activities will include foregoing the purchase of bulky newspapers. The Times actually put out a list called 45 things to do in France this Summer, whose mighty bourgeois satisfaction puts this list to shame…
