is there anyone more repellent than andrew neil?

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surely even those of his own political bent loathe him deeply?

― mark s (mark s), Wednesday, 20 November 2002 00:05 (twenty-three years ago)

Michael Douglas?

― RickyT (RickyT), Wednesday, 20 November 2002 00:06 (twenty-three years ago)

You watching Despatch Box too?

― Dave B (daveb), Wednesday, 20 November 2002 00:07 (twenty-three years ago)

no dave but it's on in the other room, and that's bad enuff!!

rickyt that is a feeble effort

― mark s (mark s), Wednesday, 20 November 2002 00:09 (twenty-three years ago)

Rory Bremner any better?

― RickyT (RickyT), Wednesday, 20 November 2002 00:23 (twenty-three years ago)

Boris Johnson?

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Wednesday, 20 November 2002 01:24 (twenty-three years ago)

dirk bogarde?

― dan (dan), Wednesday, 20 November 2002 01:44 (twenty-three years ago)

Andrew WK?

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 20 November 2002 05:41 (twenty-three years ago)

NO!!!!

Please God don't let the Barclay Bros. buy the Herald papers.

Pretty please.

― alext (alext), Wednesday, 20 November 2002 17:48 (twenty-three years ago)

just thank god he didn't get the newsnight job.

― Ed (dali), Wednesday, 20 November 2002 19:09 (twenty-three years ago)

John Witherow is the next most repellent person in Britain, obv

― robin carmody (robin carmody), Thursday, 21 November 2002 03:26 (twenty-three years ago)

the answer is no.

― Alan (Alan), Thursday, 21 November 2002 10:21 (twenty-three years ago)

I've got a friend who says the most unpleasant person she's ever met is...

John Cale.

― James Ball (James Ball), Thursday, 21 November 2002 11:14 (twenty-three years ago)

crikey

― RickyT (RickyT), Thursday, 21 November 2002 11:15 (twenty-three years ago)

I've got it: Connie from the AOL ads!

― RickyT (RickyT), Thursday, 21 November 2002 11:16 (twenty-three years ago)

repellent? she's one hot momma!

― Alan (Alan), Thursday, 21 November 2002 11:19 (twenty-three years ago)

PERVERTALIST!

― RickyT (RickyT), Thursday, 21 November 2002 11:22 (twenty-three years ago)

where's my wife list...

― Alan (Alan), Thursday, 21 November 2002 11:29 (twenty-three years ago)

bbbbbut she's a terrifying witch-creature! Ewwwww! Ewwwwww! And looks like a startled gopher that's about to go for your throat with a Bic ladies razor. And has the most INCREDIBLY annoying voice ever to stride the face of the earth. Aaaaaaaaaaargh.

Phew.

― Liz :x (Liz :x), Thursday, 21 November 2002 11:34 (twenty-three years ago)

p.s. she must be killed and her helmet hair incinerated with due ceremony.

― Liz :x (Liz :x), Thursday, 21 November 2002 11:34 (twenty-three years ago)

Why the unpopularity?

AN was an innovative and extremely successful editor. Is it because he is still associated with the Thatcherite '80s: an ambitious and affluent grammar school boy on the make, lacking in tiresome British ‘modesty’ and deference (anyone beating Sir Peregrine Worsthorne in court has to have something going for him).

Hostile chattering-class response to his failed bid for the Newsnight job seemed fixated on his open Conservative sympathies rather than his suitability for the job. A sad indictment of the one-party-state mentality steadily eroding the BBC’s independence (+ he’s a better presenter than Jeremy Vine). Sure he can be pompous and over-confident but I’d prefer a night on the town with him than Andrew 'over earnest'Marr.

― Eddie Burke, Thursday, 21 November 2002 11:46 (twenty-three years ago)

haha when paul foot reviewed AN's autobiog in the LRB and poked much fun at the editor of the ST claiming to be "anti-establishment", AN was v.riled and cancelled his subscription

it was then pointed out to him that he got his copy free

― mark s (mark s), Thursday, 21 November 2002 12:10 (twenty-three years ago)

AN would benefit by losing the petulant streak. Being mocked by an SWP apologist should always be worn as a badge of honour.

As a rare example of that exotic and endangered species, a high-profile Scottish Conservative, AN’s ‘anti-establishment’ credentials are thoroughly impeccable. As publisher of The Scotsman he even opposes devolution for Gods sake. That really is swimming against the tide.

― Eddie Burke, Thursday, 21 November 2002 13:03 (twenty-three years ago)

But there's nothing inherently good about swimming against the tide is there?

― alext (alext), Thursday, 21 November 2002 13:45 (twenty-three years ago)

No alext, but is there anything inherently good about being 'anti-establishment' either?

― Eddie Burke, Thursday, 21 November 2002 14:16 (twenty-three years ago)

"Why the unpopularity?

...Is it because he is still associated with the Thatcherite '80s: an ambitious and affluent grammar school boy on the make, lacking in tiresome British ‘modesty’ and deference"

No, he just gives me the boak. Physiology doesn't lie.

― ArfArf, Thursday, 21 November 2002 14:32 (twenty-three years ago)

PF writes in Private Eye => he IS the establishment too

― alext (alext), Thursday, 21 November 2002 14:55 (twenty-three years ago)

he went to shrewsbury school!! he wz caned by anthony chenevix-trench!!

(also to be fair, i don't think PF wz saying he PF wasn't, he wz just saying that the editor of the sunday times can't really get away with claiming he's an outsider the whole entire time) (actually his main complaint i seem to recall wz that AN never spilled the inner beans on his bust-up with R.Murdoch, where he might actually have worked up a bit of Speaking-The-Truth-To-Power cred)

― mark s (mark s), Thursday, 21 November 2002 15:10 (twenty-three years ago)

I would argue that Neil's obnoxiousness is a factor in the decline of Scottish Conservatism, though!

― robin carmody (robin carmody), Thursday, 21 November 2002 18:14 (twenty-three years ago)

eight years pass...

Apparently there's a recording of him drunk at an event earlier in the week making some disgusting jokes about rape.

Private Eye ought to have a blast with it.

― James Mitchell, Wednesday, 9 November 2011 07:31 (fourteen years ago)

Dear Sir,

I wonder if there are any photos available to illustrate a story of a drunken Andrew Neil making a fool of himself at a party?

Yours, etc...

― Ned Trifle X, Wednesday, 9 November 2011 08:57 (fourteen years ago)

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