Twitter is a playground for spiteful Lefty bullies
Ah diddums. Just because that nasty Stephen Fry handed his arse back to him on a plate over the Paul Chambers affair. Strange how "Daily Mail Reporter" describes Milo Yiannopoulos as a "student", despite his already being established as a hack for the Telegraph and various Catholic titles, and despite Wolfson being a post-grad institution.
Milo also cites the examples of Moir, Delingpole, Hannan and Ed West. By their friends shall ye know them.
Also he was a complete twat on the show - he was actively mean to Tamsin whatserface, so smug I was amazed even the timid David Mitchell was successfully resisting the urge to slap him, and I'm not remotely surprised to learn he's friends with the likes of Delingpole and Moir - frankly, it explains a lot. They deserve one another.
Also, the fact that he can say "the media have always been breathtakingly hostile to the Right" with a straight face makes anything else he says axiomatically wrong, like a clock striking thirteen.
I clicked through with alacrity on your first link, as I have some professional interest -- and observed that the Guardian has printed a correction. Professor Gregg is a welfare expert but he's not a doctor and this is not his area of speciality.
I clicked the fourth link wondering "Is it the one with the remarkably inoffensive ad at the bus stop...?" And yes, it is. The "Above the Influence" campaign is the first anti-drug campaign I've seen that (a) slips a mild anti-drug message into a general statement about independence and self-esteem, and (b) doesn't lie blatantly about drugs in their outreach materials (their website still skews facts some. Last I checked, pot is no more addictive than most allergy medications. But the fliers and posters are pretty soft-sell.)
I wonder if the dip in pot usage will carry through to college. I think (and hope) it won't, and I think I can almost approve of the campaign if it doesn't - in that the central message, "you're too independent to let drugs hijack your life", is one of my baseline values and in adulthood has given me a more positive experience than many people I know with both recreational and medicinal drugs, including the ones people don't even count, like caffeine.
I'd still prefer to be living in the alternate reality where the message is "Use responsibly", no ifs, ands or buts.
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(I already have Virgin Cable and Apple TV, so paying for streaming TV isn't a massive problem for me.)
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Ah diddums. Just because that nasty Stephen Fry handed his arse back to him on a plate over the Paul Chambers affair. Strange how "Daily Mail Reporter" describes Milo Yiannopoulos as a "student", despite his already being established as a hack for the Telegraph and various Catholic titles, and despite Wolfson being a post-grad institution.
Milo also cites the examples of Moir, Delingpole, Hannan and Ed West. By their friends shall ye know them.
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Instead of reading forums, read their problems page, particularly if they ban a lot of users. You'll find all the good stuff that way.
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I wonder if the dip in pot usage will carry through to college. I think (and hope) it won't, and I think I can almost approve of the campaign if it doesn't - in that the central message, "you're too independent to let drugs hijack your life", is one of my baseline values and in adulthood has given me a more positive experience than many people I know with both recreational and medicinal drugs, including the ones people don't even count, like caffeine.
I'd still prefer to be living in the alternate reality where the message is "Use responsibly", no ifs, ands or buts.