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Jolyon Wrote a Book

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Igneococcus · 22/04/2023 07:34

I'm not sure if he mentions his battles with GC women in it because the review doesn't mention it but I thought some people here would like to read the review. The reviewer doesn't think much of it and that is putting it mildly :)
"Bringing Down Goliath by Jolyon Maugham review — the pompous bloviating of a Twitter KC" (I had to google "bloviating"):

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/dc992f50-dd24-11ed-a0a8-657f9e54fc6a?shareToken=4a9c3689a3318860ea241c733ce5a728

Bringing Down Goliath by Jolyon Maugham review — the pompous bloviating of a Twitter KC

The word “Twitter” appears but once in the index of Jolyon Maugham’s memoir cum social action manifesto Bringing Down Goliath. But the whole book is very much

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/dc992f50-dd24-11ed-a0a8-657f9e54fc6a?shareToken=4a9c3689a3318860ea241c733ce5a728

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ChewtonRoad · 23/04/2023 08:24

Poor Jolyon...he does seem to have splinters in the windmills of his mind.

EmotionalSupportHyena · 23/04/2023 08:18

I was looking at the Amazon listing for the book..

It’s a bit weird that The Guardian is calling it a ‘2023 Highlight’ - we’ve still got 2/3rd of the year to go, how can anyone know what the ‘highlights’ will be?

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Slingshot-How-Good-Protect-Powerful/dp/0753559781

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Clymene · 23/04/2023 07:01

I'm loving all the other stuff about him coming out - the refusal to help a colleague's kid without payment, him wanting his name all over a woman's charity in return for a regular small donation.

He really is a nasty piece of work.

WarriorN · 23/04/2023 06:55

NatashaDancing · 22/04/2023 23:54

The Twitter spat led me to this.

Cultural appropriation
https://twitter.com/FixationAural/status/1649781182182326273?s=20

The analogies that I've seen of white men colonising womanhood do ring rather true

dunBle · 23/04/2023 03:00

GailBlancheViola · 22/04/2023 19:35

I think we need to do some medical research into why people like JM and OJ and all their and the TRA allies have such an incredibly thin skin.

I'd guess the obvious reason for the thin skin thing is it being stretched a long way to accommodate their outsize ego. Another example it'd probably be worth including is Matthew Stadlen, who responded to Sonia Sodha sharing the review by calling it "a vile attack piece" and when she responded casting doubt on his sense of humour he got the right hump: https://twitter.com/MatthewStadlen/status/1649714484523462656

https://twitter.com/MatthewStadlen/status/1649713771735072768

Agrona · 22/04/2023 23:50

He doesn’t take criticism well.

The review is wonderful and the comments here are great.

IwantToRetire · 22/04/2023 23:43

I'm sometimes asked how to handle bad reviews and usually answer along the lines of, 'we've all had them and it's never fun. Sometimes you can learn from them. I find it helps to remember even Moby Dick got some stinkers.'

In future, I'll just say 'never go full Jolyon.'

JK Rowling in trans row with Left-wing lawyer over ‘stinker’ book review (yahoo.com)

JK Rowling in trans row with Left-wing lawyer over ‘stinker’ book review

JK Rowling became embroiled in a trans row after mocking a Left-wing activist lawyer who took umbrage at a “stinker” review of his book.

https://uk.style.yahoo.com/jk-rowling-trans-row-left-172950546.html

IcakethereforeIam · 22/04/2023 23:11

Sorry, just catching up with the thread. So.....did the road bring him there, or didn't it? That line's not clear....Schroadinger?

QueenBitch666 · 22/04/2023 23:09

Kimono donning, woman hating, fox killer can jog on

Shelefttheweb · 22/04/2023 22:45

Mollyollydolly · 22/04/2023 20:48

Kathleen Stock is bloody funny.
https://twitter.com/Docstockk/status/1649789594752237570

I saw she mentioned trying to fit words to ‘A mouse in a windmill in old Amsterdam’. We took me to this David Bowie number:

David Bowie - A Windmill in Old Amsterdam

David Bowie - A Windmill in Old AmsterdamRecorded by Bowie in 2005 for his 5 year old Daughter Alexandria .www.stevieriks.net

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wv1ANNakp_g

SidewaysOtter · 22/04/2023 21:48

Also, he lives in a windmill.

Ironic really, since he spends so much time tilting at them.

WarningToTheCurious · 22/04/2023 21:22

This is most amusing.

https://twitter.com/stueymaco/status/1649814044361080834?s=46&t=fMjCB4vFfh_N6mYE72mhHw

Screenshot for non Twitterers (apparently it was a Jolyon tweet up to the Gingerbread … after that, not so much).

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GailBlancheViola · 22/04/2023 19:35

I think we need to do some medical research into why people like JM and OJ and all their and the TRA allies have such an incredibly thin skin.

SinnerBoy · 22/04/2023 17:25

Brave Sir Jolyon fails to strike again!

RoyalCorgi · 22/04/2023 17:20

nauticant - so he's exposed as a liar on top of everything else. What a fool that man is.

nauticant · 22/04/2023 17:16

There do seem to be quite a number of women out there on the gender critical side who he's refused to engage with:

https://twitter.com/salltweets/status/1446969416659320832

PronounssheRa · 22/04/2023 16:04

I'm glad Jolyon wrote a book it really has brought out the best of twitter 🤣

EpicChaos · 22/04/2023 15:41

teawamutu · 22/04/2023 14:20

Given he's blocked every woman on Twitter whose opinion deviates one iota from his, how would we even KNOW?

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That tweet of JK's just creased me up when I read it. :-D
He's the sort of bloke, that has to go through double doors sideways, just so that his ego can enter the room! So that, along with her other burn ( and blocking of him ) will have upset him greatly, I should imagine. How dare women not fall into line! How very dare we?!
Ugly, fox killing creep!

JolyGoodBloviator · 22/04/2023 15:27

xabia · 22/04/2023 15:18

Think that 'bloviating' should be used more often on MN. Word of the year?

New name 😆

xabia · 22/04/2023 15:18

Think that 'bloviating' should be used more often on MN. Word of the year?

SinnerBoy · 22/04/2023 15:12

ValancyRedfern · Today 14:29

The reviewer is great. Worth a follow!

Operation Fox Hunt raised a wry smile, I must admit!

AutumnCrow · 22/04/2023 15:07

Some wag's tweeted that obviously Jolyon wrote the Harry Potter books Grin

Shelefttheweb · 22/04/2023 14:35

WarningToTheCurious · 22/04/2023 12:01

And here’s Jolyon admitting that he has used GLP funds for paying half the fees for employing a lawyer to fact check his vanity project.

So GLP will be doing book promotion events for this book too?