Tag: Piers Morgan

  • Manic Meghan

    Manic Meghan

    The ‘modern day Mrs Simpson,’ the manic Duchess of Sussex’s, behaviour is becoming increasingly erratic; she needs to learn to control herself or she will indeed become a true laughing stock

    As plain old Meghan Markle, she was known for “carefully planning” publicity stunts on Instagram and elsewhere. ‘Murky Mucky’ likes being in charge but in her latest activities, she’s just shown herself to be erratic and ridiculous.

     

    Headlines about the Duchess of Sussex covering her face in porridge as part of her beauty regime – courtesy no doubt planted by her plainly equally bonkers PR advisors – show her not to be a woman of the people, but instead a bit of a fruit loop.

     

    Elsewhere, that this wannabe Mother Teresa – a woman whose husband once remarked: “What Meghan wants, MEGHAN GETS!” – wrote patronising messages on bananas that were to be given to prostitutes illustrate new-found levels of arrogance on her part. She may call such actions “empowering” but even the previously toady to this former actress Piers Morgan has finally now called her out.

     

    In summing up this tiresome woman’s activities with bananas as “meaningless, scorn-inducing guff,” Morgan is entirely right. This American transplant needs to learn to control herself and she needs to develop some dignity.

     

  • Wally of the Week – Richard Madeley

    Richard Madeley once again proves himself a complete prat in remarks about autism on ‘Good Morning Britain’

     

    Richard Madeley isn’t a man, he’s simply a menace. Married to the old soak and famous boob flasher Judy Finnigan and looking more and more like Dorian Gray as each day passes, the former This Morning presenter “has been branded ‘embarrassing’, ‘ignorant’ and ‘an idiot’ after [asking a] shocking question to the mum of a man with autism.”

     

    Standing in for the equally pugnacious Piers Morgan on ITV1’s Good Morning Britain this week, “Richard Went Full Madeley” according to The Mirror when he curtly asked: “The thing with Daniel [Wakeford, a ‘star’ on Channel 4’s Undateables] is, he has autism but is very intelligent and as we can see extremely talented. Has Daniel always been autistic?”

     

    Criticised for his stupid and inappropriate question widely on social media, here is yet again evidence that Madeley really isn’t the sharpest tool in the box. This classmate of Chancellor ‘Spreadsheet Phil’ Philip Hammond previously made a joke about alleged abuser of 1,000 women Harvey Weinstein in October 2017.

     

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  • Wally of the Week – Richard Madeley

    Wally of the Week – Richard Madeley

    Richard Madeley once again proves himself a complete prat in remarks about autism on ‘Good Morning Britain’

     

    Richard Madeley isn’t a man, he’s simply a menace. Married to the old soak and famous boob flasher Judy Finnigan and looking more and more like Dorian Gray as each day passes, the former This Morning presenter “has been branded ‘embarrassing’, ‘ignorant’ and ‘an idiot’ after [asking a] shocking question to the mum of a man with autism.”

     

    Standing in for the equally pugnacious Piers Morgan on ITV1’s Good Morning Britain this week, “Richard Went Full Madeley” according to The Mirror when he curtly asked: “The thing with Daniel [Wakeford, a ‘star’ on Channel 4’s Undateables] is, he has autism but is very intelligent and as we can see extremely talented. Has Daniel always been autistic?”

     

    Criticised for his stupid and inappropriate question widely on social media, here is yet again evidence that Madeley really isn’t the sharpest tool in the box. This classmate of Chancellor ‘Spreadsheet Phil’ Philip Hammond previously made a joke about alleged abuser of 1,000 women Harvey Weinstein in October 2017.

     

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  • Modern Day Foxes and Hedgehogs

    Modern Day Foxes and Hedgehogs

    The Steeple Times examines Archilochus’ concept of ‘foxes’ and ‘hedgehogs and applies such to modern day personalities

     

    According to the Greek poet Archilochus: “The fox knows many things, but a hedgehog one important thing.” Isaiah Berlin explored this premise in greater detail in his 1953 essay The Hedgehog and the Fox and identified ‘hedgehogs’ as those that “view the world through the lens of a single defining idea” and ‘foxes’ as those that “draw on a wide variety of experiences and for whom the world cannot be boiled down to a single idea.”

     

    Berlin’s examples of ‘hedgehogs’ numbered Friedrich Nietzsche, Henrik Ibsen and Marcel Proust whilst for ‘foxes’ he chose such individuals as James Joyce, Aleksandr Pushkin and William Shakespeare.

     

    Here, below, we apply the same analysis and chose fifteen modern day figures that are representative of each characteristic and curiously reveal a ‘third way’ that for once isn’t connected to Tony Blair: ‘The Neither Nors’ that sadly dominate our society.

     

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     Modern Day Foxes and Hedgehogs – Archilochus and Isaiah Berlin – The Steeple Times examines Archilochus’ concept of ‘foxes’ and ‘hedgehogs and applies such to modern day personalities – Michael Bloomberg, Madonna, Martin Sorrell, Justin Timberlake, Rupert Murdoch, Taylor Swift, Stephen Fry, Leonardo DiCaprio, Bill Gates, Vladimir Putin, Oprah Winfrey, Bill Clinton, HM The Queen, Victoria Beckham, JK Rowling, Jeremy Corbyn, Bono, Richard Branson, George Clooney, Bernie Ecclestone, Theresa May, Jeremy Clarkson, Vince Cable, Arnold Schwarzenegger, David Cameron, Alexa Chung, Barrack Obama, Prince Charles, Duchess of York, Anthea Turner, Donald Trump, David Blaine, Charles Saatchi, Mark Zuckerberg, Robert Mugabe, Russell Brand, Piers Morgan, Paul Dacre, Warren Buffett, Boris Johnson, Katie Hopkins, Hillary Clinton, Nigel Farage, David Beckham, Katie Price

  • P**s Off Piers

    P**s Off Piers

    Piers Morgan withdraws from presenting an awards ceremony after an online campaign to oust him went viral; next he needs to leave Britain for good

     

    On Sunday, Piers Morgan, undoubtedly one of the most loathed men in Britain, took to social media to explain why he has opted to pull out of hosting the Royal Television Society Programme Awards after an online campaign to have him ousted went viral. Amongst those to have supported it were the spin doctor turned journalist Alastair Campbell, the actor Adrian Lester, OBE and the playwright and novelist Bonnie Greer, OBE.

     

    In the statement, Morgan – a man best known for publishing fake pictures of British soldiers abusing Iraqi prisoners in 2004 and for his feuds with everyone from Jeremy Clarkson to J. K. Rowling – remarked:

     

    I was recently invited to host the Royal Television Society Programme Awards.


    As someone who has worked in British and American television for most of this Millennium, on a variety of shows, I thought it might be fun and agreed to do it without any fee.


    After my role was announced, a campaign was started to have me banned.


    It suggested that I lack the ‘creative excellence’ criteria required for presenting such an event and therefore my presence would be ‘damaging’ and ‘inappropriate’.


    Further, I have ‘failed to understand a social movement that values equality and diversity of voice’.


    Apparently, this movement does not extend to tolerating my own diverse voice.


    I have no wish to serve as an unnecessary distraction from award winners whose hard work and skill should be celebrated without any of the silly noise this campaign has generated.


    So, I am now withdrawing from hosting the evening. Good luck to everyone who has been nominated.

     

    Morgan (who was born Piers O’Meara and whose full name is Piers Pughe-Morgan), for the first time in his life, has understood the public mood and reacted appropriately. Given how much he is hated in Britain and given his love for his friend Donald Trump, we urge him to continue on the path of sensible moves and emigrate. He should permanently move to America and he should never come back.

     

    #GetHimGone

     

    P**s Off Piers – Piers Morgan withdraws from presenting an awards ceremony after an online campaign to oust him went viral; next he needs to leave Britain for good P**s Off Piers – Piers Morgan withdraws from presenting an awards ceremony after an online campaign to oust him went viral; next he needs to leave Britain for good P**s Off Piers – Piers Morgan withdraws from presenting an awards ceremony after an online campaign to oust him went viral; next he needs to leave Britain for good

  • Wally of the Week – Piers Morgan

    Wally of the Week – Piers Morgan

    Piers Morgan toadying up to Donald Trump over the terror attacks in Brussels can only be described as utterly repugnant (more…)

  • The surprising rise of Alexa Chung

    The surprising rise of Alexa Chung

    Why does Alexa Chung generate so many column inches? The answer remains shrouded in mystery suggests Matthew Steeples (more…)

  • Video of the Week: #PleaseNotThem

    Video of the Week: #PleaseNotThem

    National Lottery make a cringeworthy advert featuring Piers Morgan as part of their #PleaseNotThem promotion (more…)

  • The class of Cleese

    The class of Cleese

    In taking on the repugnant journalist Piers Morgan on Twitter, funnyman John Cleese spoke for the nation
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  • The madness of Murdoch

    The madness of Murdoch

    Has Rupert Murdoch lost the plot?

     

    Rupert Murdoch has done a lot of strange things lately: This octogenarian met with Nigel Farage last week, is allegedly going to have his papers back Scottish independence and might also get rid of ‘Page 3 Girls’ at The Sun. (more…)