Digested week: Labour politicians’ loose talk part of longstanding tradition | Emma Brockes
Awkward WhatsApp revelations, binned bitcoin, musical heart, Godfather nostalgia and the happy over-50sCareer death via “offensive WhatsApp group” is a modern iteration of a longstanding tradition of public figures being felled by loose talk. Where once it was Jane Austen being busted – albeit posthumously – for making bitchy remarks in a letter about her neighbour’s miscarriage, now we enjoy the spectacle of two Labour MPs and 11 Labour councillors being suspended for comments made in the WhatsApp group Trigger Me Timbers. Continue reading...
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Awkward WhatsApp revelations, binned bitcoin, musical heart, Godfather nostalgia and the happy over-50s
Career death via “offensive WhatsApp group” is a modern iteration of a longstanding tradition of public figures being felled by loose talk. Where once it was Jane Austen being busted – albeit posthumously – for making bitchy remarks in a letter about her neighbour’s miscarriage, now we enjoy the spectacle of two Labour MPs and 11 Labour councillors being suspended for comments made in the WhatsApp group Trigger Me Timbers. Continue reading...
