Society news

John MacLeod

Please make this stop - I don't doubt Ms Hilton is a very fine woman, and a very able one (were she herself), but I don't visit the pre-eminent political blog for this sort of thing, and two doses of inconsequential, affected commonplaces in one evening strains my tolerance.

Verity

Dear God! So many words! So many commas!

The density! The moronic assumptions!

Kevyn Bodman

I have commented on other threads that I suspect you sometimes play an internal office game of who can put up the silliest post.

This takes the joke too far.

Ms. Hilton might be a good writer, she might be writing stuff that some readers of other magazines and websites want to read.
And she puts her name to her pieces.
I think this is important; I think one of the problems we have in the UK, particularly in the public sector, is that decisions are made by anonymous people who avoid accountability.

So, I would like the person in your office who has so misjudged your readership and who thinks this kind of piece is appropriate for CoffeeHouse to come on here and say 'Yes, I authorised this.'

It's a misjudgement that needs to be corrected.

Then pay Ms. Hilton, give her a good reference and let her go somewhere else.

skooch

What?

TPR

Isn't there a financial crisis on somewhere? At least I thought so.

Kev G

Inflicting this young lady on the coffeehousers is about as sensible as cold-mailing free Girls Aloud CDs to the clientele of Bayreuth.

Can you encourage her to showcase her talents somewhere else, please.

Austin Barry

This illiterate arch nonsense is surely a joke.

Chris

I have nothing to add. Neither does Ms Hilton. That's why you don't need her witterings. Neither do your readers.

idle

I second Kevyn Bodman -

'the person in your office who has so misjudged your readership and who thinks this kind of piece is appropriate for CoffeeHouse to come on here and say 'Yes, I authorised this.'

Michal Boneswill

Thank Heavens somebody's focussing on the stories what count, eh?

Marbury

This post is a somewhat desultory sneer. Still it was worth publishing if only to provoke the retired officers and stockbrokers who seem to constitute the CH readership into such entertaining explosions of pomposity. Keep it up, Lisa! And you too old chaps!

John Page

I have no idea what this post is about. Is that good or bad? Has someone sneaked into your office and put this up while your backs were turned?

GS London

Comma ridden, like the face of a pubescent teenager it is, but it is not grammatically incorrect. And actually, it makes a fair point - that the snobbishness involved with the class system has now largely reversed, promoted by its erstwhile antagonist.

As Wilde said, "we are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars."

Anthony Gibson

Yes, the Guardian should stop carrying class and Tatler obsessed articles. Take this one for example:

"After a party held by Tatler magazine at which I seduced an old Etonian, I definitely felt a chip fall from my shoulder, while at the other end of the social shagging scale, any man who actually works with his hands, and, God, gets dirty doing it, can carry a huge, ahem, allure."

http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2007/jul/08/familyandrelationships6

Obviously that must have been written by a different Lisa Hilton.

Andrew Zalotocky

Is this a political blog or a showbiz gossip column? Get Lisa Hilton to write about serious issues or get rid of her.

RK

Please can someone have a word with Matthew d'Ancona and say 'please, no more of this'.

Marian C

The whole article is total drivel.

Fergus Pickering

If you don't like it then don't read it. I've had enough of letters and percentages to last me a lifetime and it doesn't do to get TOO hung up on politics.Other thinhgs do matter, or if they don't matter they are of interest. Prime Minister Balfour: 'Nothing matters much. Most things don't matter at all.' There is a place for trivia. Too much macho stomping and huffing and puffing and bloody SUMS is not good for the soul.

CS

Please get rid of this society drivel.

MJ

skooch is right, but I go further.

Who?

Why?

William Norton

I'm enjoying this run of Lisa Hilton articles tremendously, and I want it to continue. This is post-modern irony at its finest. Isn't it?

Kev G

Will, you old contrarian, you! Ever the sucker for posh totty.

Victoria

TO ALL:

Agreed. Society news, better left to Tatler and well, Heat Mag (HEAT MAGAZINE Pron: Hat. Mag. Def: 21st Century publication providing neo-social commentary relating to somewhat celebrity status and images of about town 'celebrities' showing perhaps too much flesh. Reputed for enthusiasm with one too many a Greek tragedy in middle-class urchins, Jordan and Kerry Katona being names mentioned in previous issues. See contacts for further information) - but why the reaction that likens Ms. Hilton to a sardonic feminist?

Yes we know we're all short of a few pounds at the moment, whether in cash or conviction. Lets hope we're not short of a sense of humour; it's hardly a cover story.

Trammer Swinny

Amusing that this has got by far the most comments of any of today's CH posts. Hats off to Lisa.

Austin Barry

If this is the Speccies new direction then let's all discuss the celebs in the jungle. I mean, that Martina, phew, grrrr....

Verity

Is it post-ironic?

skooch

Or post-finest, in its most modern irony?

To quote Waldorf, and then Astoria:

'Who knows ....?'

'Who cares ....?'

The Dandiprat

More of this please to alleviate the Westminster drivel.

And take no notice of the sideswipes: commas is fab.

Puncheon

Lisa, darling, I didn't understand a word of your article, but you seemed to be making a reasonable if obvious point about the inverted snobbery of the liberal trendy lefties. More amusingly you have flushed out the latent pomposity and self-importance of the Coffee House readership. If people don't like this sort of thing then don't read it, but don't try to impose censorship on others because your prejudices are offended. That is very authoritarian/lefty behaviour, in my view.

Chris

Excuse me. My pomposity and self-importance are NOT latent! They're proudly displayed for all to see and admire. And it's not a question of censorship; if the Speccie wants to pay good money for this cr*p, let it. Then we'll exercise our right as free-born Britons to gather round and go 'ner-ner-ner-ner-ner' at it.