In a blog post linking to Scrapbook’s viral story from yesterday, the Daily Telegraph’s James Delingpole has waded into the “pretend disabled” debate – siding with, erm, Rod Liddle and adding an attack on charities for good measure. Despite his admission that he “recently suffered from an ME-like illness”, Delingpole agrees with Liddle’s sickening rant, singling out [...]
Is Rod Liddle’s column in today’s Sun the most disgusting attack on disabled people yet? Here are some choice quotes: “My New Year’s resolution for 2012 was to become disabled. Nothing too serious, maybe just a bit of a bad back or one of those newly invented illnesses which make you a bit peaky for decades [...]
Should someone who writes the following sentence be: (a) run out of the mainstream media having first been tarred and feathered? (b) appointed as the editor of a quality centre-left newspaper? Join the Facebook group here to stop Alexander Lebedev appointing Rod Liddle as the editor of the Independent. 2,123 members and growing fast. Hat-tip: Left [...]
