To think AA Gill must be the most joyless journalist on the planet.

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He just moans and drones about everything. His restaurant reviews are almost unreadable and he seems to make a point of despising the kind of television programmes that the Hoi Polloi love. Why doesn't he just go and live on top of a tree someplace where he can look down on the rest of us, lip curled with total disdain.

AA Gill's travel and features writing can be enjoyable and I do like how he champions the USA. I bought his first collection of writing and one chapter stuck in my mind when he, his partner and their guides were stuck on a rocky outcrop in the middle of the Kalahari (think that's where it was) during a monumental thunder storm. The terror of that long night was very well captured.

AA Gill is a terrific writer. I enjoy his meandering style.

Gill doesn't write. He dictates over the phone to a select coterie of posh girls. I have had the misfortune of seeing his copy totally raw. Revolting misogyny. I once had the pleasure of pointing out a factual inaccuracy to him. He doesn't like to be wrong!

You say "meandering" -I say "under edited"!

And everyone is ignoring the baboon. How can anyone even contemplate reading anything he writes after than?

I would love to see the copy of all of these writers before the subbing process.

Gill is severely dyslexic isn't he so would be more likely to dictate copy. However he is part of the Tatler-arti and they are most definitely the fluffy-muffy girls all working Tuesday to Friday lunchtime weeks before going back to the land for the weekend.

And yes of course he is a misogynist. Anybody who judges a woman on the basis of her looks over what she says and does is one. Of course his male friends (and Gill himself) are all breathtaking examples of Mother Natures greatest work and somehow exempt from the same aesthetic benchmarking.

southeastdweller Yes,a brilliant article let down by - some of his own words - an explosion of vomitus attacks on person. Elsewhere, most of what he said is true,to some extent.

from the article -..."
"Kate Moss with her brutish pout and lobotomy eyes"
..rabbit faced Jagger girl
Daisy Lowe, Pixie, Pixie, Suki ...all dressed like bag ladies..........
All of them, all these idiots .................."

I particularly hated 'rabbit faced Jagger girl'. Awful, awful.

Which of the gorgeous hunks of lust meat wrote that little bundle of bile, Gill or Coren?

Does anyone know if it's possible to read the G. Coren article on London Fashion Week online??? I don't subscribe but want to read it (being, as I am, caught exactly halfway between a Vogue subscription/fascination with thesartorialist.com and revulsion of the whole rotten trade!)

imitedperiodonly the gorgeousnessness Giles Coren

RunFatGirlRu I can't find it on line.

love the (being, as I am, caught exactly halfway between a Vogue subscription/fascination with thesartorialist.com and revulsion of the whole rotten trade!)

Rabbit faced jagger girl? How can a man with eyes like a mole say that?

He is a short arse, probably the root of all his problems. And not as clever as his father. That must smart a bit.

I really like Zoe Williams. I like reading her articles and she seems wise and kind.

Ages ago Ghastly Camilla Long dressed up in a Roland Mouret dress for the ST magazine and wrote how it was working in a newspaper office dressed as a siren. She evidently thought she looked like a cross between Sofia Vergara and Joan from Mad Men. The accompanying photos did make me laugh! I must say. Doesn't lack self Esteem, that one.

another

"...middle -aged writers ....who should know better than to team biker boots with a miniskirt and show off their ancient knees....

he doesn't like the word 'team' he says -hateful new verb of the fashion kakistoracy (his word)

How lucky for him that none of them is ever likely to pester him for sex, unless he had one of their loved ones hostage.

I love Marina Hyde. thank God fir her amongst all the Guardian pseudo- worthiness.

Toby Young, the man who had the coke stroke, now lecturing us about our children's education - I mean latin FFS.

And this makes me truly thankful i am no longer s sub editor here's the lovely Giles

" I have written 350 restaurant reviews for The Times and i have never ended on an unstressed syllable. Fuck. fuck, fuck, fuck."

But marina Hyde slept with Piers Morgan. Can you imagine?

How lucky for him that none of them is ever likely to pester him for sex, unless he had one of their loved ones hostage.

It would have to be someone you loved very, very much, though. And you'd need a blindfold. And a gag. And large amounts of strong drink.

I can imagine taking one for the team under those circumstances, but even so I might reserve the right to change my mind.

I never tire of reading that email. It has white powder sprinkled all over it.

MI!

But marina Hyde slept with Piers Morgan. Can you imagine?

Yes. And then I wake up sweating more than he does.

I can imagine taking one for the team under those circumstances

Or general anaesthetic

I suppose the one good thing is that you'd get out of absolutely any requirement to behave well ever at all again. Discharging (ahem) your duties at one, er, blow.

Oh dear.

I actually read Piers' book - the one where he keeps banging on about Tony Blair constantly asking him to number 10 and how Cherie hated fancied him.