Metastasis
If you want to read that Guido Fawkes Guardian article from 1986 it is really easy to find it on Google. I suspect that it will always be pretty easy from now on in to find it on Google as Guido has (perhaps unknowingly) initiated a game of "whack a mole" with whoever keeps posting it on anonymous blogs. I am not posting a link, on the basis that anyone who hasn't got the wit to find the thing themselves is probably best off not getting posession of potentially libellous information, and I daresay that various individual websites posting it will be up and down like a fiddler's elbow, while the general morphological feature that "it is really easy to get that Guido Fawkes article on Google" will remain constant. If you don't know what I am talking about then you are similarly better off not knowing.
"Metastasis", for those who have better things to do than look it up on Wikipedia, can be loosely defined as "the reason that a cancer surgeon's favourite surgical tool is not a fucking baseball bat".
I wonder if he realises that most people's suspicions about what the article might contain are far worse than what the article does contain.
ReplyDeleteYeah. Third entry on Google for a reasonably obvious query.
ReplyDeleteThere are some points of interest in the article, apart from the words that might conceivably be complained of. First: he was at Hull. Even though Larkin was a librarian there, it isn't the centre of conservative thought. It's one thing for a Labour person to have been to a provincial university -- Jack Straw was at Leeds -- but the Conservatives are more stringent. Two: this was twenty plus years ago. I suppose it's conceivable that he's not yet 40. But it's unlikely. It's very hard to be an enfant terrible past forty, particularly a right wing one. One is supposed to have made it by then. Three: the double-barrel was weird even then. Is he still using it?
He's turning 40 this year I believe.
ReplyDeleteHaving listened to the 'Guido and the Monkey' podcasts, I had assumed both Guido and Recess Monkey were about 25. They certainly sounded like people using their Westminster jobs to spin out their student lifestyles for a while longer before commencing life in the real world. I suspect that this is in fact the case, except that the period for which Guido has extended his student career is about 17 years.
ReplyDeletenot so much with respect to Guido; as far as I can tell he was a broker and did some time in Japan.
ReplyDelete"...did some time..."?
ReplyDeleteCareful with that. You'll be getting a writ.
hahaha! disclaimer: not that kind of "done time"!
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