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In the UK, we have a newspaper called The Guardian (or Teh Grauniad for it's multiple spelling mistakes). It is thought to be one of the more left-wing, politically correct newspapers...indeed it would take a very dim view of nepotism.

This week, The Guardian published a truly life-affirming travel blog on Thursday from "Max, 19", who was off to India for a gap-year trip. Max was, in some people's view - let us choose our words with care - a bit of a cunt.

And so, 500 breathtakingly negative comments later, Max is a very much chastened young man and the Internet has a new, and entirely unwilling, star.

The original blog is here, the travel editor's post the next day defending Max from another 500 slavering commenters is here, and the pompous article in Sunday's Observer titled, rather grandly "Hate mail hell of a gap-year blogger" and complete with ludicrously over-the-top quotes from Max's dad Paul Gogarty (an occasional travel writer for the, er, Guardian) is here.
 
For me this comment serves as the best "observation" on daddy's defence of Max's wonderful litany of cliches:

I remember applying for about 17 diffent jobs at the Guardian, from making the tea, to wiping the spittle off Peter Preston's creamy white buttocks and was turned down each and every time for being too white, too petit-bourgeoisie and not anti-american enough.

So regardless of whether young Max was given a leg-up because he was 'connected', why didnt I get the travel-blog gig. I mean I had more artistic flair in my writing at the age of 8, then Max does now. If he writes for 'skins', Im a dutchman.

Yours

J van der Hoegstratten
 
:eek:

Is this true?!?

He is just bright and 19 and middle-class - and that's a crime in Britain.
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:p

The hate-mail link was interesting. Evidently it sucks what the Internet can do to a 19 year old.

And why are they saying it got 500 comments on the blog before it was closed? At first I was like "Holy crap!" because it said it was approaching a million!
 
He is actually credited on the imdb with writing one episode from the first series of Skins and also with appearing in that same episode - I guess if you write parts for yourself, it's still a kind of favouritism, even if not strictly nepotism.
 
No, being white, middle-class and 19 is not a crime in the UK.

Being white, middle-class, 19 and getting a cushy journalism job globe-trotting courtesy of Daddy's friends is not welcomed with open arms.
 
Max's writing skills appear to have been learnt from some robotic word game, which panders to the more melodramatic needs of the "hooray Henry" class of Chardonnay drinkers.
 
I like the quotes from his father: "He is just bright and 19 and middle-class - and that's a crime in Britain." and "You may like or dislike the blog, but the cruelty is shocking, if quintessentially British." I think its quite naive to think that only British people have posted comments on Max's blog.

Though getting a writing job at a popular newspaper (even if it is just a blog) at the age of 19 is very suspicious, they had to have realised this. Especially seeing his father had connection. If they really wanted to do a piece on a young writer taking a trip abroad for the first time couldn't they have found someone people wouldn't have bashed?
 
Nepotism has its way of reminding all of us that being quids in, is equal to being legged up. The pity of it is that The Guardian might well be missing out on another Oscar Wilde, by employing another gap year student to spend his time telling us what we already know about India. Did the British ever leave India?
 
Are there any Indian people still in India?

Or have they been displaced by the hordes of 19 year old boys and girls (daddy's a lawyer, mummy has problems with her nerves, we have two cars, a pony and go ski-ing in the Alps...) who descend on these poor people on an annual basis to "find themselves" - whatever that means.

Why don't they ever go and "find themself" working in Belarus or Ethiopia? Or is that too much like hard work?
 
The Ruperts and Jeremys of this world are more likely to find them self in deep shit if they believe that India will be any different from Southall, Middlesex. On second thoughts, the weather might be a little better.
 
BenF46 said:
Why don't they ever go and "find themself" working in Belarus or Ethiopia? Or is that too much like hard work?
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Don't think the "work" enters into it. People in those countries haven't been taught to speak even semi-proper English.
 
this could prove to be a very entertaining saga to follow
 
hawkia said:
Please tell me he didn't say learnt
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Learnt is a proper word, it is used in the more civilised colonies for the past tense of the verb "to learn".

Only Americans, as far as I can tell, use the bastardised form of "learned".
 
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