tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2215553202978284468.post8978285285613067719..comments2024-02-06T16:17:25.826+00:00Comments on THE GRØNMARK BLOG: The real hero of Private Eye’s first 50 years is Christopher BookerScott Gronmarkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15118026157459333174noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2215553202978284468.post-88689722377765281582011-11-09T18:17:12.766+00:002011-11-09T18:17:12.766+00:00I agree with everything you say about Booker. He a...I agree with everything you say about Booker. He and his collaborator Dr. Richard North are both fine investigative writers. North's book "Ministry of Defeat" made me vow never to read another book or article about the MoD again because of hypertension problems. What a bloody shower these people are.<br /><br />The Daily Telegraph is beginning to have the same effect. Over the last couple of years the paper has been gradually infiltrated by the "sisterhood" [the educational system similarly]. 50% of the content seems to be fashion and celebrity profiles. Bryony Gordon is given a huge amount of space [mind you, she sure needs it]. A snap-shot from last Monday's edition: Louise Mensch MP about her 58-year old husband " My palms still sweat with adreline whenever he walks into a room" [by Rowena Mason, Political Commentator]. I am currently giving the Daily Mail a trial run - yes, it's that bad.SDGnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2215553202978284468.post-41524493201068115992011-11-07T18:17:05.378+00:002011-11-07T18:17:05.378+00:00The only reason we don't give up the Telegraph...The only reason we don't give up the Telegraph is that my wife does the crossword: it is a sad, shivering, palsied, dimished version of what it used to be in the days of Charles Moore. Now they've even got rid of Simon Heffer for the crime of not being a keen Cameron supporter. Almost all of its best writers are confined to its online edition, particularly the blogs - it's the only thing about the Telegraph I'd genuinely miss.Scott Gronmarkhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15118026157459333174noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2215553202978284468.post-34080380965275929102011-11-05T14:11:50.263+00:002011-11-05T14:11:50.263+00:00Booker is one of those journalists who ends up bei...Booker is one of those journalists who ends up being right about 90% of the major issues on which he writes and until the rest of the commentariat catches up a few years later, he is invariably dismissed as a Little Englander or bonkers. I had no idea of his connection with Peter Simple, for my money the most consistently funny column in post -War British journalism whose discontinuation made me give up on the Telegraph. Rather like Michael Wharton, Booker gives the impression of some one who if not able to ridicule the great and the good would be driven mad by them.ex-KCSnoreply@blogger.com