At last! Something to make me smile at the end of a grim week.

[non sociopath skin]

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2013/apr/05/kelvin-mackenzie-dropped-daily-telegraph

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[T_i_B]

1. Well, for one thing he's not a good enough writer

I know I won't agree with most of what gets parrotted in the Telegraph but most of their colummists are much much better writers then Kelvin Mackenzie.

James Delingpole being the obvious exception.

[muriel_volestrangler]

2. And something to make you smile at the beginning of a new one:

Kelvin MacKenzie's Daily Mail column sparks £200,000 libel claim

Kelvin MacKenzie faces more woes after being dropped by the Telegraph as it emerged that his column in the Daily Mail has become the subject of a £200,000 libel case.

Dr Antonio Serrano, an NHS doctor in Sussex, has claimed that his reputation was smeared by Mackenzie's column in April 2012 that described the "living hell" of one of his patients.

The column, headlined "A whole year of hell, thanks to a foreign doctor", suggested that Serrano was seriously incompetent and had an "inadequate grasp of the English language", according to a claim form filed at the high court in London.

Mackenzie's typically provocative Daily Mail column was published on 21 April last year and began: "Last week, I raised the uncomfortable issue of foreign doctors working in this country, and targeted the offensive behaviour of a Spanish consultant. I have since received, and investigated to my satisfaction, an even more shocking case."

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2013/apr/08/kelvin-mackenzie-libel-claim-daily-mail

[non sociopath skin]

3. Indeed it is. Thanks Muriel.

I've been trying to ward off unseemly schadenfreude in the face of the Iron Lady's popped clogs all day so a good giggle did me good.

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