Booker Prize-winning author attacks Kate Middleton
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Or does she? Here's what Hilary Mantel actually said: http://www.lrb.co.uk/v35/n04/hilary-mantel/royal-bodies
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<shrugs>
Ah a mantel piece
far too long
nice
Yeah, it was mainly a comment on the media's treatment of Kate Middleton.
I think her point has been proved somewhat by the way the media have reacted and (deliberately?) mis-reported it.
Heard people in the office talking about this, had no idea it was FRONT PAGE NEWS.
Talk about a slow news day. I guess people are bored of horse meat and if they print any more about Pistorious it will be flat out contempt.
Though actually, there was a big item on the Today programme about fuel prices about to shoot up.
I would have thought the Mail would be all over that.
Jesus Christ
How much are they padding out the word count on that front page? It's practically the same three sentences repeated slightly differently.
Dacre thanks you for your custom.
he owns the london review of books does he
95% of people that read the story, won't be reading it in the London Review of Books.
Generous percentages, I'd say.
does he own the Twitter account I got that jpeg from
No, but he'll take the free advertising that person has given him.
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-BERa808ndhQ/TewvlTKgheI/AAAAAAAAAGw/E9pZKsSxIPg/s1600/swing-miss.jpg
that LRB piece is brilliant
I thought it was a brilliant essay, best thing is LRB this week.
Obviously left herself open for the ' it's people like you what killed Diana' - angle though.
*in
K-Mid fights back
http://www.thedailymash.co.uk/news/celebrity/any-time-any-place-duchess-tells-novelist-2013021960222
If you're gonna become a professional scrounge and join the royal family
you gotta let people say what they like about you. Even if it actually wasn't an insult.
Nice to see that David Cameron has waded into this.
Very classy.
it's kind of appropriate that he hasn't even read the piece before criticising
echoes the level of political discourse in this country
It also echoes the level of sycophancy around the Royal family
His response seems pretty much like IDS the other day
Shelf stackers more important than geologists
Royal handmaidens more important than decorated novelists
So Hilary Mantell attacked the press for their treatment and coverage of the Princess
and the media in question managed to twist it so that it looks like she attacked the Princess rather than the coverage?
is that right?
that's right
welcome to Britain
this is some brooker-esque shit right up in here
I love her writing
WOlf hall and bringing up the bodies are both being adapted by the rsc this autumn.
Mods - ban this spambot
:D