does anyone give a flying toss about anything featured in the evening standard's ES magazine?

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continuing today's trend of in-depth media analysis, this publication has always struck me as being in a league of its own when it comes to head-up-arse, nepotistic, utterly banal, irrelevant and turgidly elitist journalism. i mean, decca aitkenhead and toby young even write for it. reading it sends me into paroxysms of working-class rage. discuss...

― Dave Stelfox (Dave Stelfox), Friday, 5 September 2003 10:33 (twenty-two years ago)

suzy, is a disturbingly regular reader, I have no idea why.

― Ed (dali), Friday, 5 September 2003 10:58 (twenty-two years ago)

The Evening Bastard is my least favourite of of Lord Rothermere's organs.

― Ed (dali), Friday, 5 September 2003 11:04 (twenty-two years ago)

I used to find it a strangely fun tube read. I am close to trotting out the 'enjoyable rubbish' line.

― N. (nickdastoor), Friday, 5 September 2003 11:05 (twenty-two years ago)

It doesn't have one single redeeming feature, but sometimes it's nice to pick up a free copy on the tube and quietly seethe to onesself. Does Suzy see her friends in the society pages, maybe that's why?

― chris (chris), Friday, 5 September 2003 11:06 (twenty-two years ago)

hell no the ES magazine doesn't acknowledge the existence of London on our side of the great divide (regents street).

― Ed (dali), Friday, 5 September 2003 11:10 (twenty-two years ago)

caption from today's: "Princess Tomara de Borbon and milliner Cosmo Jenks"

also: "I didn't have Salman Rushdie down as a devotee of P Diddy and the like, so it is intriguing to hear the Booker Prize-winning novelist can be seen at Knightsbridge's Wellington Club, a habitue for 'Bling-Bling' types." Byline? Sebastian Shakespeare!!!

― Dave Stelfox (Dave Stelfox), Friday, 5 September 2003 11:31 (twenty-two years ago)

Why even waste time reading/looking at it then?

― Marcello Carlin, Friday, 5 September 2003 11:33 (twenty-two years ago)

(Confession time) I rather like ES, although it has gone downhill in the last year or so. It used to be shallow and know it was shallow and send itself up a bit, be a bit younger, a bit more street. Now I get very hacked off with the swathes of colt-legged socialites. But I still read it. I like the fashion pages and secretly want to grill all of my friends with the Your London questions.

― Anna (Anna), Friday, 5 September 2003 11:35 (twenty-two years ago)

Well I hope they provide more interesting and original answers than one generally finds (last CD bought: "uh, like, Tyrese"; last book read: "uh, The Road Well, like, Travelled"; last film seen "City Of Like God Wicked!" etc.).

― Marcello Carlin, Friday, 5 September 2003 11:37 (twenty-two years ago)

totally classic!!! in a piece about "bright young things", ES includes Richard Russell As co-founder if XL records - the label responsible for bringing you, and i quote: "the prodigy, basement jaxx, the phenomenally successful lemon jelly, plus dizzee rascal (19-year-old soloist from so solid crew)"!!! hahahahahahaha!

― Dave Stelfox (Dave Stelfox), Friday, 5 September 2003 11:38 (twenty-two years ago)

''Why even waste time reading/looking at it then?''

that applies to the evening standard as well.

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Friday, 5 September 2003 11:42 (twenty-two years ago)

motherfuck - i know a few of the bright young things... see y'all in the met bar, suckaz!

― Dave Stelfox (Dave Stelfox), Friday, 5 September 2003 11:49 (twenty-two years ago)

Clearly none of us was "bright," "young" or "thing" enough to merit inclusion in this doubtless prestigious (stifles cackle/yawn) list. Thomas Ades, that's really pushing the envelope. Surprised they don't have Damon Albarn in there, or perhaps Michael Redgrave.

― Marcello Carlin, Friday, 5 September 2003 11:51 (twenty-two years ago)

mick jagger!

― Dave Stelfox (Dave Stelfox), Friday, 5 September 2003 11:59 (twenty-two years ago)

meanwhile i am leaving you all behind and going to bask in the reflected glory of acquaintances i don't particularly like...

― Dave Stelfox (Dave Stelfox), Friday, 5 September 2003 12:00 (twenty-two years ago)

TS: Bright Young Things vs Dull Old Bastards...

(finding myself siding with the DOB camp)

― Dave Stelfox (Dave Stelfox), Friday, 5 September 2003 12:07 (twenty-two years ago)

The Evening Bastard is my least favourite of of Lord Rothermere's organs.

You are not, I take it, Lord Rothermere's fan? Which, in your opinion, is worse, his pancreas, his Farfisa, or his spleen?

― Momus (Momus), Friday, 5 September 2003 12:36 (twenty-two years ago)

My sister is friends with Princess Tomara de Bourbon (I think, she is certainmly friends with a minor spanish royal of a similar name)

― Ed (dali), Friday, 5 September 2003 12:39 (twenty-two years ago)

dammit, we're like the ilx glitterati ed!

― Dave Stelfox (Dave Stelfox), Friday, 5 September 2003 12:41 (twenty-two years ago)

Does she get free biscuits?

― Ricardo (RickyT), Friday, 5 September 2003 12:42 (twenty-two years ago)

i'll settle for chips...

― Dave Stelfox (Dave Stelfox), Friday, 5 September 2003 12:43 (twenty-two years ago)

what's wrong with those ones on your shoulder?

< / OPEN GOAL I CAN'T HELP MYSELF >

― mark s (mark s), Friday, 5 September 2003 12:52 (twenty-two years ago)

I'll kettle for chips.

― Erik Estrada, Friday, 5 September 2003 12:56 (twenty-two years ago)

Fridayest thread ever.

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Friday, 5 September 2003 13:00 (twenty-two years ago)

three years pass...

you must be pretty sour to enjoy the standard.

today's front page: photo of extremely pretty and by all accounts intelligent and successful girl, smiling; with headline WAR ON SIZE ZERO MODELS.

― EARLY-90S MAN (Enrique), Friday, 15 September 2006 12:31 (nineteen years ago)

With Mischa Barton on the front cover of ES, no less.

― Hello Sunshine (Hello Sunshine), Friday, 15 September 2006 12:59 (nineteen years ago)

mmmm, lily cole and mischa barton...

― EARLY-90S MAN (Enrique), Friday, 15 September 2006 13:03 (nineteen years ago)

suzy, is a disturbingly regular reader, I have no idea why.

Hmm..I wonder why - when it covers the latest meetings of celebs in a tatler-lite sytle. My favourite suzy posting (about Tom Parker Bowles)

His sister is nice, but at a party I once told him that something he was saying was the most smug thing I'd heard in a month of Sundays, although I can't remember what it was now (I posted about this party at the time). This is probably because immediately to our right I was spooked by my friend Dan arriving to same party in a group comprising some artphags and David Furnish.

― Bob Six (bobbysix), Friday, 15 September 2006 13:35 (nineteen years ago)

i'm sure even suzy would have to recognize that as a thing of wonder.

― EARLY-90S MAN (Enrique), Friday, 15 September 2006 13:36 (nineteen years ago)

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― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Friday, 15 September 2006 13:49 (nineteen years ago)

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