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 Post subject: Patrick Collins
PostPosted: Sun Jul 18, 2010 12:26 am 
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He's good. Who does he talk to at the Mail Christmas Party?

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/footba ... agery.html


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 Post subject: Re: Patrick Collins
PostPosted: Sun Jul 18, 2010 12:59 pm 
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Tubby Isaacs wrote:
He's good. Who does he talk to at the Mail Christmas Party?

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/footba ... agery.html


The cleaners.


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 Post subject: Re: Patrick Collins
PostPosted: Mon Jul 19, 2010 6:26 pm 
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You reckon Rothermere invites them?

It might explain why Mailites think there are lots of black people in Fleet Street.


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 Post subject: Re: Patrick Collins
PostPosted: Mon Jul 19, 2010 6:28 pm 
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 Post subject: Re: Patrick Collins
PostPosted: Mon Jul 19, 2010 7:27 pm 
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That's the first smiley I've ever had on a message board. I'm humbled.

Peter Oborne perhaps? He's a funny one, and can write some sillyd stuff. But he did some excellent stuff on Islamophobia- so good the Mail trailed it with this warning:

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The Mail's Peter Oborne has written a pamphlet arguing this country and its media are Islamophobic. Doubtless, many will disagree with him, but his views can't be ignored.



Amazing, eh? Racist shit doesn't need a warning.


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 Post subject: Re: Patrick Collins
PostPosted: Tue Jul 20, 2010 6:06 pm 
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Although this may not be the time to mention it, but i remember Zac Goldsmith used to cover environmental issues in the Mail. He used to have some good debates with an industry bigwig.

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 Post subject: Re: Patrick Collins
PostPosted: Tue Jul 20, 2010 6:26 pm 
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Although this may not be the time to mention it, but i remember Zac Goldsmith used to cover environmental issues in the Mail. He used to have some good debates with an industry bigwig.


He used to write a lot of sensible stuff in the Ecologist as well, going back about, say 5-10 years ago


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 Post subject: Re: Patrick Collins
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His report with John Gummer isn't supposed to be bad. It did its detoxifying job anyway.


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 Post subject: Re: Patrick Collins
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I did always find it a bit odd that Goldsmith edited the Ecologist, and wrote some pretty decent stuff, given that his own political views seem to be so at odds with most of the environmentalist movement and were often challenged in his own magazine.


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 Post subject: Re: Patrick Collins
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Which is why it was a surprise when he acted such a twat in his interview with Jon Snow...


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 Post subject: Re: Patrick Collins
PostPosted: Tue Jul 20, 2010 7:50 pm 
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Which is why it was a surprise when he acted such a twat in his interview with Jon Snow...


He did?

I never heard about that ;-)


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 Post subject: Re: Patrick Collins
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Trust me, he did.


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 Post subject: Re: Patrick Collins
PostPosted: Tue Jul 20, 2010 8:14 pm 
tc-obo wrote:
I did always find it a bit odd that Goldsmith edited the Ecologist, and wrote some pretty decent stuff, given that his own political views seem to be so at odds with most of the environmentalist movement and were often challenged in his own magazine.


To be fair the editorial line iof the Ecologist was one of localisation, which would fit with the Tories' ideas of less central government control over british society, I can see why he'd be attracted by such an idea.


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 Post subject: Re: Patrick Collins
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Patrick's on good form. Tells an anecdote about a scribe who claimed to have interviewed Joe Kinnear (when manager of Nepal) "in a hotel overlooking Mount Everest".


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 Post subject: Re: Patrick Collins
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he wrote this today as well:

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Harry Redknapp was asked to comment on Manchester City’s transfer spending, which may well surpass £100million this summer.
A man of vivid imagination, Redknapp came up with a gem of an answer. ‘There’s nothing you can do,’ he said. ‘They’re bringing good players into the Premier League.
‘Football fans don’t care. Saddam Hussein could own their football club and, if he’s putting millions into it, then they’ll be quite happy.
'They’ll be singing, “There’s only one Saddam”. I’ve seen it all before. They don’t care if you’re putting the money in.’
He is right, of course. And for ‘Saddam’ you could read Pol Pot, Joseph Stalin or Kim Il Sung. If they could guarantee a top-four placing — with perhaps a Carling Cup thrown in — then their character flaws would be swiftly overlooked by the chaps in the cheap seats.
And something Harry forgot to mention: those blood-stained, tyrannical owners would never run short of football managers ready and willing to work for them.





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