To not want this bigot to become editor of the Independent?

[Bananaketchup]

Rod Liddle is front runner to become the new editor of The Independent. Amongst his many pearls of wisdom is the 'fact' that

'The vast majority of women with very small children are useless at their jobs'.

Please come here to email the new owner of the Independent and ask him not to appoint Rod Liddle.

OMG, read that Daily Mail article linked by Rindercella below.

I agree with what others say about the ghastly brand of "liberalism" that prevails today, but Rod Liddle is just not the man to break it.

However, I have my prejudices too, and I sincerely believe that the vast majority of men who work at the Spectator and have shaggy hair and shoot their mouths off are useless at their jobs.

Strangely I don't want a newspaper to have a 'a sense of a true voice and viewpoint'. I have my own viewpoint. I like the fact that the columnists frequently contradict each other.

I enjoyed Rod Liddle's documentary on being an Anglican.

However, I never felt he quite 'got' Christianity.

And larrygrylls - on the Sexist Bingo card I had tattooed on my arm when I subscribed to the Guardian, 'fairer sex' is Full House.

The Indie sends me to sleep.

Liddle is an epic dickweed

Choosyfloozy its double house for the quotation marks as well isn't it?

I believe so Bonjour [holds chin thoughtfully].

I suppose I'm a JS Mill liberal, in that I believe that we are all so interlinked as part of a community that acts that might seem only to harm an individual actually harm the community, and therefore there is more legitimacy in some 'nanny state' interventions than would first appear . Rod(ney?) Liddle must be a different sort of liberal. I remember on the documentary he appeared to argue that because the Church of England did not ban alcohol, it was fine to get regularly arseholed. As I say, I don't think he focused on the key elements of Christianity. I wonder if he still goes to church? Admittedly you should expect to find horrible people in places of worship because sinners are the people who need religion most.

Having said all that, he's a professional journalist and I think he should make a perfectly good job of being editor, why not? It's bloody hard labour being the editor of a daily newspaper though, I wonder if he has the stamina for it?