Richard Littlejohn

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<choose><option>{{cquote|''[[Melanie Phillips]], but with boobs.''|||Ben Summerskill, reviewing ''Littlejohn's Britain''<ref>http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2007/jun/10/society.politics</ref>}}</option><option>{{cquote|''PS. I hate women, obviously, and I'm glad when they die. Yours, Richard Littlejohn, Cunt.''|||Stewart Lee, on "political correctness gone mad" <ref>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hmkHLiZMJeU</ref>}}</option><option>{{cquote|''I would like to describe Richard Littlejohn as like the film ‘The Shining’ - a dangerous psychopath, sat at a typewriter, going demented, typing the same crap over and over again.|||Andy Parsons, ''Mock the Week''<ref>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WuwbpDjQ2HY</ref>}}</option></choose>

'''Richard Littlejohn''' {{lived|18 January 1954}} is a British [[tabloid]] columnist, commentator and author best [[Proll|known for]] his [[reactionary]] stances and obsession with homosexuality. He is currently a twice-weekly columnist for the infamous ''[[Daily Mail]]''.  He was previously a columnist for ''[[The Sun]]'' and has also written for ''The Spectator'' and London's ''Evening Standard''.  One of his biggest accolades is the title of "the stupid person's Jeremy Clarkson" in a [[The Guardian|''Guardian'']] review of ''Littlejohn's Britain''.<ref>[http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2007/may/15/digestedread.johncrace ''The Guardian - Littlejohn's Britain by Richard Littlejohn]</ref>

==Quotes and views==

For some evidence of his quite twisted view of the world, look no further than his comments on the serial killing of five women who worked as prostitutes in 2005:

{{quotebox|It might not be fashionable, or even acceptable in some quarters, to say so, but in their chosen field of "work," death by strangulation is an occupational hazard.<ref>[http://thedailymailtendency.blogspot.com/2006/12/richard-littlejohn-deserves-shooting.html some blog]</ref>}}

While working for radio station {{wpl|LBC}} in the early 1990s, he was once censured for suggesting that the police should have "turned flamethrowers on" a group of "militant homosexuals" protesting outside the Houses of Parliament.<ref>http://www.bjr.org.uk/data/2002/no3_littlejohn</ref>

In 2010, just two days after he died, Littlejohn opined that the late [[Labour Party]] leader Michael Foot was a hypocrite, because he failed to fight in the Second World War - this attack being written in the full knowledge that Foot had weak lungs,<ref>[http://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-1255529/Michael-Foot-good-Old-Footy-No-dangerous-deluded-hypocrite.html "Others say it was ill-health, a combination of asthma and a skin complaint - though plenty of asthmatic boys with acne were at the front of the queue to sign up for the fight against the Nazis." "His alleged asthma never prevented him delivering lungbursting speeches to CND rallies."]</ref> causing him to be ruled ineligible for military service despite volunteering.<ref>[http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1255092/Former-Labour-leader-Michael-Foot-dies-aged-96.html#ixzz1AVvveaIl "On the outbreak of World War Two in 1939, Foot immediately volunteered to serve but was turned down because he had weak lungs." ]</ref>

He has been repeatedly accused of being a racist and a homophobe, something that journalist [[Johann Hari]] has described as "a demonstrable, provable fact".<ref>[http://www.johannhari.com/2005/06/12/richard-littlejohn-racist-and-homophobe Johann Hari - Richard Littlejohn: Racist and Homophobe]</ref> Hari has been one of Littlejohn's more outspoken critics, challenging Littlejohn on several of his "facts" regarding immigration and asylum seekers, something that Littlejohn has shown himself to be unable to effectively respond to.<ref>[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cxmlaur5UsA YouTube -Richard Littlejohn and Johann Hari]</ref>

Following his obsessive homophobia, Littlejohn may quite possibly be a [[Haggard's Law|repressed homosexual]]. To quote Marina Hyde's charting of his obsession in 2004:
{{quotebox|"In the past year's Sun columns, Richard has referred 42 times to gays, 16 times to lesbians, 15 to homosexuals, eight to bisexuals, twice to 'homophobia' and six to being 'homophobic' (note his scornful inverted commas), five times to cottaging, four to 'gay sex in public toilets', three to poofs, twice to lesbianism, and once each to buggery, dykery, and poovery. This amounts to 104 references in 90-odd columns — an impressive increase on his 2003 total of 82 mentions. There is, alas, no space for us to revisit the scientific study which found obsessive [[Haggard's Law|homophobes more responsive to gay porn]]. But Richard, we're begging you: talk to someone." <ref>[http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2004/nov/10/1  Marina Hyde - Diary (''The Guardian'')]</ref>}}

Littlejohn moans about aspects of Britain that are in decline due to immigrants and lefties, writing as though he is reporting from the streets of London, but he gets away with it because his loyal readers are unaware that he lives quite comfortably in an upmarket community in Vero Beach, Florida and thus is not exactly an on-the-spot source.

Possibly his most painful output is when he "imagines" an event that didn't happen, using his encyclopaedic knowledge of ''The Sweeney'' and ''Only Fools and Horses'' to create a clunking, lumbering script where individuals he dislikes (left wing politicians, "luvvies", activists etc.) play the part of a weak, dishonest, scheming or laughing stock character. This allows Littlejohn to create an entirely false reality that supports his worldview.

==Books and novels==

Richard Littlejohn's quickly-remaindered novel ''To Hell in a Handbasket'' was once described by David Aaronovitch as "a 400-page recruiting pamphlet for the [[BNP]]".<ref>[http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/1390395.stm BBC News - Self v Littlejohn]</ref> His 2010 book, ''Littlejohn's House of Fun: Thirteen Years of (Labour) Madness'', picked up many supportive reviews on Amazon.co.uk. from the usual "send 'em all back" crowd,<ref>[http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/0091931681/ref=cm_rdp_product/278-3003221-2062567 Amazon.co.uk - Littlejohn's House of Fun: Thirteen Years of (Labour) Madness (Hardcover)]</ref> but others appreciated his work in a different way:

{{Cquote|It is very rare that you can say that a book is truly groundbreaking. Littlejohn's H.O.F does nothing to buck this trend, though to be fair to it there is a picture of our hero on the front cover which should be enough for anyone. This can be best described a 'toilet book', and as a previous reviewer pointed out, the pages are very absorbent.|20px|20px|A. Smith}}

== External links ==
*Littlejohn getting summarily [http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/1390395.stm pwned] by Will Self.
*Littlejohn [http://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-1269918/ELECTION-2010-Gordon-Brown-hates-everybody--Labour-voters-included.html#comments reinvents himself as a psychiatrist], seemingly unaware of the irony of calling anybody [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cxmlaur5UsA a liar], [http://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-1250332/Binyam-Mohamed-torture-case-How-grill-terror-suspects.html glib], [http://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/columnists/article-423549/Littlejohn-Spare-Peoples-Prostitute-routine-.html callous] or [http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/1390395.stm narcissistic].
*Littlejohn gets [http://www.angrymob.uponnothing.co.uk/home/95-richard-littlejohn/998-richard-littlejohn-stupider-than-you-thought bitchslapped]. Again.
*[http://youtu.be/bmsV1TuESrc?t=4m50s Stand-up comedian Stewart Lee on Littlejohn.]
*[http://action.sumofus.org/a/daily-mail-littlejohn-lucy-meadows/?sub=fb Littlejohn bravely uses the freedom of the press to drive a transgender woman to suicide]

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