Under Boris The Speccie was a great read, funny, exciting even. I bought it every week.
DAncona made it boring and Fraser Nelsson has not improved it much. I sometimes look at it online, – for Julie Burchill and Graham Roberts – but have bought the paper version only once in years because I needed an article for reference.
But Gove ?
Oh dear
Oh dea
Marius
1 year ago
Nelson is far too liberal for my liking, but he is a very good editor and made a great job of turning a long-running print publication into a proper multimedia business, where the print edition still does well.
It is hard for me to make an objective judgment of Gove as a journalist, because my views are skewed by despising and detesting his personality and politics. The last thing I read of his was an op-ed in the Times. If they printed it again with a Labour cabinet-member’s name on it, no one would bat an eyelid. I reckon Tim is right though.
The Meissen Bison
1 year ago
Five years? Five months should be enough.
Gove was a journalist before he became a politician and then a Covid Gauleiter. Too much (brown) water has flowed under the bridge for him to resume his earlier calling.
rupert
1 year ago
I really can’t imagine Gove making anything better. His determination to do so died a decade ago and since it’s been establishment opinions all the way 🙁
Swannypol
1 year ago
Maybe it already is. It was objectively never worth that.
Except that someone paid that for it, so it WAS worth that to them.
If they try a sale and wont accept less than £100m for it, it will still be worth that to them (and still not to anyone else).
starfish
1 year ago
Haven’t read it since it retreated behind a paywall, including the forums which were very good
Cannot say I have missed it much
Jim
1 year ago
We as a 35 year subscriber my heart sank when I saw that the Slimy Gove had been given the editors job. The man is a utter shit. Sorely tempted to give up the subscription.
Bloke in Germany
1 year ago
That, surely, was the entire point of buying it, wasn’t it?
Pcar
1 year ago
@Marius Nelson is far [far, far] too liberal for my liking, but he is a very good editor and made a great job of turning a long-running print publication into a proper multimedia business, where the print edition still does well
Gove is personally responsible for taking or supporting decisions that wrecked the lives of [economy and] thousands if not hundreds of thousands of people through the imposition of lockdown backed by fear mongering propaganda
Achieved his aim to destroy Conservative party too. Also his destructive green zealotry, his war on landlords destroying the rental market and more. Imo he wanted Brexit, not to free Britain, but to impose measures EU would not permit
I read Speccie most days, not looking forward to future. I imagine Gove will censor, or edit, all anti green, jab, lockdown pieces. Will Clark, Liddle and Murray stay?
Under Boris The Speccie was a great read, funny, exciting even. I bought it every week.
DAncona made it boring and Fraser Nelsson has not improved it much. I sometimes look at it online, – for Julie Burchill and Graham Roberts – but have bought the paper version only once in years because I needed an article for reference.
But Gove ?
Oh dear
Oh dea
Nelson is far too liberal for my liking, but he is a very good editor and made a great job of turning a long-running print publication into a proper multimedia business, where the print edition still does well.
It is hard for me to make an objective judgment of Gove as a journalist, because my views are skewed by despising and detesting his personality and politics. The last thing I read of his was an op-ed in the Times. If they printed it again with a Labour cabinet-member’s name on it, no one would bat an eyelid. I reckon Tim is right though.
Five years? Five months should be enough.
Gove was a journalist before he became a politician and then a Covid Gauleiter. Too much (brown) water has flowed under the bridge for him to resume his earlier calling.
I really can’t imagine Gove making anything better. His determination to do so died a decade ago and since it’s been establishment opinions all the way 🙁
Maybe it already is. It was objectively never worth that.
Except that someone paid that for it, so it WAS worth that to them.
If they try a sale and wont accept less than £100m for it, it will still be worth that to them (and still not to anyone else).
Haven’t read it since it retreated behind a paywall, including the forums which were very good
Cannot say I have missed it much
We as a 35 year subscriber my heart sank when I saw that the Slimy Gove had been given the editors job. The man is a utter shit. Sorely tempted to give up the subscription.
That, surely, was the entire point of buying it, wasn’t it?
@Marius
Nelson is far [far, far] too liberal for my liking, but he is a very good editor and made a great job of turning a long-running print publication into a proper multimedia business, where the print edition still does well
+1
TCW and I agreee: Gove is a destroyer
Michael Gove, the new Spectator editor, is no conservative but a destroyer
Gove is personally responsible for taking or supporting decisions that wrecked the lives of [economy and] thousands if not hundreds of thousands of people through the imposition of lockdown backed by fear mongering propaganda
Achieved his aim to destroy Conservative party too. Also his destructive green zealotry, his war on landlords destroying the rental market and more. Imo he wanted Brexit, not to free Britain, but to impose measures EU would not permit
I read Speccie most days, not looking forward to future. I imagine Gove will censor, or edit, all anti green, jab, lockdown pieces. Will Clark, Liddle and Murray stay?