I don’t know if you’ve ever heard the phrase ‘French flu’ but it was coined in the 1950s by an Eastern European intellectual who found sanctuary from Soviet tanks in London and then became incredulous at the way English brain-boxes ceaselessly put down their own country in comparison with France.
Really love the last sentence..spot on. Thanks again for filleting so eloquently and acidly the hypocrisy of the moralistic pile on on Hancock. As you say, nobody routinely recites the same line against Corbyn….. Isn’t it interesting that when male MPs walk out on their wives and children to start a new life with a male partner, they get congratulated and celebrated, despite “I’ve been living a lie all these years” being exactly what a legion of male heterosexual cheaters say about walking out on the marriages and children they’ve spent years telling us they’re so devoted to. Also applied to the former Labour leader Kezia Dugdale, who left her fiancee who she’d been living with for nine years and was about to marry to shack up with a young SNP MP she’d been on a USA extended jolly, I mean fact finding tour, for a few weeks with. “So love conquers all,” gushed Nicola Sturgeon. Someone should ask her if she’s going to send the same message to Hancock……..
It’s interesting that you highlight hypocrisy. Biblically Jesus’s biggest hate was hypocrisy. He raged against it in the temple. He doesn’t go on about homosexuality, he forgives adulterers, says, “Let he who is without sin cast the first stone”. He doesn’t like hypocrisy. We probably all do it but Hancock has been quite spectacular.
"It’s such a prissy, reductive view of life; faithful husbands often make rotten leaders - Nixon, Cameron - while bounders can be great ones - Lloyd George, Kennedy. Once in a while you get a great leader who’s also faithful - Churchill - but that’s probably because he was too depressed to be interested in sex."
There haven't been enough female PMs to put this theory to the test for women. Margaret Thatcher was a great PM and Theresa May an abysmal one. Both, as far as anyone knows, were faithful wives. I suspect any infidelities by a female PM would not be tolerated as those of male PMs have been.
Labour, of course, hasn't had a female leader yet, partly because they haven't been in power very often, but mainly because of the sexism Julie Burchill rightly identifies. Lefty men don't like uppity women.
When Islam became trendy and a good source of postal votes, lefty men rejoiced, seeing Islam as an opportunity to put the genie of women's uppitiness back in the bottle. And Islam's savage misogyny was beyond criticism because its adherents are mainly BAME. But when BAME dames started appearing in the Tory cabinet and refused to toe the lefty line - think Priti Patel and Munira Mirza - Trans became the new Islam. Rape victims are now compelled to say they were raped by a "woman", who can be a big hairy, musclebound weightlifter, who doesn't even have to wear a frock.
Some of this is off key. Are 'transies', as a group, really woman-haters? To group 'transies' with Isis seems crass.
Also, JB implies that John Major and Edwina Currie were conducting their affair while he was prime minister or perhaps while they were both in the Cabinet. That's not so.
I don't think your generalisations about all trans people are fair, Natasha, any more than JB's are. Debbie Hayton, for example, didn't sound like a woman-hater when she spoke on R4's Moral Maze last week. As for my knowledge of this topic against JB's, how would you know, Natasha, since we've never met?
It remains a pity that JB's articles, like this one, contain factual errors as well as numerous typos because these detract from what she has to say. On the Sunday Telegraph, I expect they'd have been subbed out. Here, they are exposed because nobody seems to be checking her stuff. If it doesn't matter to you or her, feel free not to care.
Natasha, there's nothing insulting to JB or you in anything I've written on this site. Feel free to go through my handful of posts and check. If you think I've 'repeatedly insulted' you or her, you are being hyper sensitive, which is something JB has criticised 'snowflakes' for in her columns elsewhere. As for suggesting I 'need therapy' because I disagree with you or JB, would that be insulting to me, I wonder? Must all comments on JB's writing shower her with praise? I don't know JB but I very much doubt she'd want this space to be an Amen corner.
Blimey but Julie Burchill knows how to wield the pen, bravo.
You are brilliant. Thank you for continuing to go against the grain.
Really love the last sentence..spot on. Thanks again for filleting so eloquently and acidly the hypocrisy of the moralistic pile on on Hancock. As you say, nobody routinely recites the same line against Corbyn….. Isn’t it interesting that when male MPs walk out on their wives and children to start a new life with a male partner, they get congratulated and celebrated, despite “I’ve been living a lie all these years” being exactly what a legion of male heterosexual cheaters say about walking out on the marriages and children they’ve spent years telling us they’re so devoted to. Also applied to the former Labour leader Kezia Dugdale, who left her fiancee who she’d been living with for nine years and was about to marry to shack up with a young SNP MP she’d been on a USA extended jolly, I mean fact finding tour, for a few weeks with. “So love conquers all,” gushed Nicola Sturgeon. Someone should ask her if she’s going to send the same message to Hancock……..
Hancock had to go. But boy are we surrounded by hypocrisy. That is why I like your articles Julie, you expose the hypocrisy and say it like it is.
Fabulous writing, Julie. keep it up 'em!
Matt Handsandcock, as you very nearly said, Julie. Another lesson for the faint-hearted - keep them coming!
I hope you’re negotiating a deal with publishers for a volume of your collected writings, or are they all too feart?
Thank you, Elayjay, I have THREE collections going very cheap on Amazon and my new book WELCOME TO THE WOKE TRIALS will be published later this year.
Thanks for that, Julie - I’ll get onto it right away🥰
Great to read your uncensored thoughts.
Another belter.
So funny and so right. Had Hancock been French he would now have been considered as a future presidential candidate. Love your writing
That was a wonderful read, and right on the button.
It’s interesting that you highlight hypocrisy. Biblically Jesus’s biggest hate was hypocrisy. He raged against it in the temple. He doesn’t go on about homosexuality, he forgives adulterers, says, “Let he who is without sin cast the first stone”. He doesn’t like hypocrisy. We probably all do it but Hancock has been quite spectacular.
We called it “WHT” - wandering hand(s) TROUBLE! Syndrome wasn’t a word in vogue back then!
"It’s such a prissy, reductive view of life; faithful husbands often make rotten leaders - Nixon, Cameron - while bounders can be great ones - Lloyd George, Kennedy. Once in a while you get a great leader who’s also faithful - Churchill - but that’s probably because he was too depressed to be interested in sex."
There haven't been enough female PMs to put this theory to the test for women. Margaret Thatcher was a great PM and Theresa May an abysmal one. Both, as far as anyone knows, were faithful wives. I suspect any infidelities by a female PM would not be tolerated as those of male PMs have been.
Labour, of course, hasn't had a female leader yet, partly because they haven't been in power very often, but mainly because of the sexism Julie Burchill rightly identifies. Lefty men don't like uppity women.
When Islam became trendy and a good source of postal votes, lefty men rejoiced, seeing Islam as an opportunity to put the genie of women's uppitiness back in the bottle. And Islam's savage misogyny was beyond criticism because its adherents are mainly BAME. But when BAME dames started appearing in the Tory cabinet and refused to toe the lefty line - think Priti Patel and Munira Mirza - Trans became the new Islam. Rape victims are now compelled to say they were raped by a "woman", who can be a big hairy, musclebound weightlifter, who doesn't even have to wear a frock.
Some of this is off key. Are 'transies', as a group, really woman-haters? To group 'transies' with Isis seems crass.
Also, JB implies that John Major and Edwina Currie were conducting their affair while he was prime minister or perhaps while they were both in the Cabinet. That's not so.
I don't think your generalisations about all trans people are fair, Natasha, any more than JB's are. Debbie Hayton, for example, didn't sound like a woman-hater when she spoke on R4's Moral Maze last week. As for my knowledge of this topic against JB's, how would you know, Natasha, since we've never met?
It remains a pity that JB's articles, like this one, contain factual errors as well as numerous typos because these detract from what she has to say. On the Sunday Telegraph, I expect they'd have been subbed out. Here, they are exposed because nobody seems to be checking her stuff. If it doesn't matter to you or her, feel free not to care.
Natasha, there's nothing insulting to JB or you in anything I've written on this site. Feel free to go through my handful of posts and check. If you think I've 'repeatedly insulted' you or her, you are being hyper sensitive, which is something JB has criticised 'snowflakes' for in her columns elsewhere. As for suggesting I 'need therapy' because I disagree with you or JB, would that be insulting to me, I wonder? Must all comments on JB's writing shower her with praise? I don't know JB but I very much doubt she'd want this space to be an Amen corner.
Ha ha! Great stuff, keep it coming 👍
Thank you both!