Jolyon Wrote a Book

Yes... but I can't imagine Adrian bludgeoning a fox and then boasting about it. Or being so generally nasty tbh.

can I suggest Ricky Gervais for the lead?

I wonder if the poor fox was bludgeoned to death with an empty champagne bottle but he thought that too much to add in?

Adding colour, or building his own excited glee?

I suspect he wasn't so much hungover as still drunk.

in vino veritas

His intention was so obvious . It was such an obvious attempt to add colour to his writing, to show us what an exciting, original character he is. It failed miserably. What an arrogant prat he is.

I think his need to tell the world about the satin kimono (his wife's satin kimono!) is as significant as the brutal killing of an animal.

Yeah that did it thanks!

Sympathy levels are restored to a minus 47.

Can someone shake me back to reality where i remember he's an arse!

More than an arse, a grotesque architype of an overweening male.

The prominent remain-supporting lawyer Jolyon Maugham QC has announced on Twitter that he clubbed a fox to death on Boxing Day morning, while wearing his wife’s satin kimono and nursing a hangover.

“Already this morning I have killed a fox with a baseball bat,” the barrister tweeted just after 8am. “How’s your Boxing Day going?”

I have to admit, and this is only because I've just spent the last month going through what he's currently going through on a much smaller scale I'm feeling quite sorry for him. (Although obviously our book didn't get slated)

Can someone shake me back to reality where i remember he's an arse!

So the other day on Amazon Thurs he was at 248 in books now he's at 358.

Make of that what you will.

But the mumsnet book was at its highest position in books somewhere around 180, 160? I don't remember off the top of my head on the day we sold 99 copies. After that as we never sold that many in one day again we went down the main book ranking.

So I'd love to see his sales figures. Obviously he presumably has other sales outlets and an actual publisher and an advertising budget. I do hope he's doing better elsewhere.😶

Oh shame - he wasn't expecting someone not to worship at his feet:

I see the Sunday Times shares the enthusiasm of its sister paper for 'Bringing Down Goliath'. What is different is that, this time, I agreed to be interviewed by the Murdoch Press. That was a mistake. I won't make it again.

https://twitter.com/JolyonMaugham/status/1652571542427951104

He just cant help himself. Goliath. How does he fit through any doors with a head that swollen?

I read the article by accident. ie I wasn't concentrating when I started reading and being bad on names I couldn't work out who this self absorbed egotist was.

Comparing himself to Gandi - seriously talk about have no self awareness.

But loved this finishing paragraph:

The Good Law Project now seems to jump from one voguish cause to the next and Maugham’s trans advocacy, driven by having a “person I love” who is trans, has been particularly uncompromising, alienating some of his former allies. “The Good Law Project could have been a really effective organisation — instead it has become the Jolyon Maugham show,” says one legal colleague.

How much of the world, and particularly women's worlds, have been crunched under foot by montrous male egos?

'my natural tribe are the winners'

Flasbacks of Donald Trump explaining why he held contempt for Senator John McCain, despite McCain's having been designated a war hero for surviving 7 years of frequent torture in a Viet Cong prison without revealing any intelligence: "I like people who weren’t captured.”

(In fairness, Trump later denied saying it.)

Does he not realise that Bob Roberts is fictional? And I'm pretty sure a satirical portrayal too, but I've not watched the film in years.
https://twitter.com/Robin_C_Douglas/status/1652327897594470400

Oh yes, Barry Hi-de-Hi would be perfect, especially in a lady kimono.

Is it wrong of me to want some enterprising director to film a biopic? It's a shame Barry from Hi-de-Hi isn't alive to bulk up, stick on some specs and take on that lead role.

😂😂😂 Crack on, Jolly

“Bloviating” 😂Marvellous!

Those quotes are just hilarious. He is a reincarnated Alan Partridge.

thanks for the screen shots beetle. actual lols here

'my natural tribe are the winners'

sure Jolyon, sure

B3ta could do a quiz to see if you can tell which is Jolyon and which is Partridge.

"I gorged on Toblerone and drove to Dundee in my bare feet."

Totally agree.

Thanks so much for the archive link and link to the interview, TheBiologyStupid and Igneococcus. Both are an excellent read! I expect the authors are now on Jolyon's block list if they are on Twitter. I'll need a strong coffee before trying to read the actual book extracts though.