Gyles Brandreth On Twitter

[NauticalDisaster]

I saw Gyles Brandreth the other day on Twitter and thought it was good that he was doing a poem a day in silly sweaters. I didn’t know who he was but it seemed an entertaining thing to do.

Today’s poems seem tone deaf, the poems he chose are joking about killing your wife. I don’t think I’m being overly sensitive considering the amount of women killed each year by their partner or husband and that lockdown is exacerbating DV.

Here’s the link to his offerings today:
twitter.com/GylesB1/status/1247780084544487424

Is it just me? All comments on Twitter so far are complimentary to him.

[Melroses]

Do you think he sanitises his twitter thread

It would be very tempting to put the newspaper reports of the wives killed so far in lockdown on it.

Maybe it is mostly like-minded twats who follow him?

[koshkatt]

Good lord. What the fuck is he thinking? And why are people lapping this shit up?

[ThinEndoftheWedge]

Melrose - yes good idea and how about a bit of Jane Fae - cracked skulls is domestic violence ‘gone wrong’

The boxer got panned / suspended (not sure) for being a dick and making light of this too - why not cuddly jumper man?

[ChickenNuggetsChipsAndBeans]

It's OK when a posh bloke says it in a silly jumper.

I think this crisis has made me realise how irritating and useless most celebs are.

The only exceptions are Joe Wicks and David Walliams. We really so live in strange times.

[Datun]

Oh dear. I do think that's rather tone deaf, given how domestic violence is quite prominent in the news during the lockdown.

He thinks it's all whimsical and charming.

It's not.

[koshkatt]

Joe Wicks is bloody brilliant. Walliams - just no.