Oi, Young and Delingpole — don’t be so precious

Wow — two pieces in the mag this week from journalists whining about people being beastly to them on social networking sites. The first, from James Delingpole, correctly identifies Twitter as being characterised by “suppurating vileness”. Yes, that would be right. So why do it? James is a good mate and while we have certain intense political differences — him being further to the right than a fish knife — he’s one of the few honest monkeys plying their trade in this vapid and self-centred world. It is frankly beneath him to whine about being attacked. Hell, I’m sure the two of us had a good chortle when the immensely self-regarding idiot Yasmin Alibhai Brown whined about how horrid people were to her a couple of years back.

And then there’s Toby Young, complaining about being “stalked” by a leftie writer. Come on gentlemen; people will say stuff about you and — heaven forfend! — it might not always be true. They will say stuff out of spite or conviction or stupidity or all three. Why not let them? Where’s the problem? We are way too pleased with ourselves, we media slags. Too f**king pleased with ourselves and too f**king precious.