As you may have seen, I was highly privileged yesterday to briefly attract the attention of the unholy alliance between abusive CyberBrits and the Global Rowling Heavy Mob. As far as I can see, their one and only defence against my suggestion that certain coincidences seem to link J K Rowling's misogynistic Twitter-pal "Brian Spanner" with popular journalist Euan McColm is that all of the apparent evidence was in fact a highly sophisticated form of unionist/boy wizard humour that can't be correctly interpreted by civic nationalists or by fans of inferior children's fantasy fiction such as The Chronicles of Narnia or The Hobbit. In view of that, I wonder if they could help me in deciphering the correct comic connotations of a few other seemingly suspicious (but I'm sure totally innocuous) facts.
1) Out of 320 million possibilities, why was Euan McColm the very first person that "Brian Spanner" followed on Twitter?
2) Why was Think Scotland (a right-wing website to which McColm has contributed many articles) the second Twitter account that Spanner followed?
3) Why were Alex Massie, Iain Martin, John Rentoul and David Torrance (all journalistic chums of McColm) the third, fourth, fifth and sixth accounts that Spanner followed on Twitter?
4) Why does Spanner - an abusive troll who regularly uses the C-word, and who has a relatively modest 4,622 followers on Twitter - boast such a large number of the unionist establishment (especially the journalistic unionist establishment) among his followers? Examples : Blair McDougall, J K Rowling (who STILL follows him!), Alex Massie, John McTernan, Kenny Farquharson, Iain Martin, Chris Deerin, Stephen Daisley, David Torrance, Kevin Schofield, Alan Roden, Iain Harrison, Ruth Davidson MSP, Harry Cole, Nick Cohen, Gemma Doyle, Melanie Ward, Tom Greatrex, Stephen Hammond MP, Paul Martin MSP, Alex Fergusson MSP, Mike Crockart, Charlotte Wace (Scottish Mail on Sunday), Tom Martin (Scottish Daily Express), Lord Lewis Moonie, Maggie Vaughan (Alistair Darling's spouse), Murdo Fraser MSP, Paul Sinclair, Rob Shorthouse, Catherine Stihler MEP, Ben Borland (Scottish Sunday Express), Ian Smart, Ian Murray MP, and yes, Euan McColm. Are they ALL fans of deeply offensive misogynistic trolling and the C-word?
5) On a related point, is it really a total coincidence that Spanner and McColm both love using the C-word? Maybe I'm just careful with who I follow on Twitter, but I can't say I encounter the word very often.
6) Why are McColm and Spanner both so obsessed with the same picture? See HERE, HERE and HERE.
Classic example of innuendo (or in-anyone's-end-oh!) by rhetorical questioning.
ReplyDeleteShould also be filed as exemplar of guilt-by-association — precisely the whoops-oh-nasty device deplored by Janice Rowling.
All summarised by Kenneth Williams (as Julius Caesar): Infamy! Infamy! They've all got it in for me!
And from that same venerable source:
Cleopatra: You do not look like your bust.
Julius Caesar: No, he's not. He's just a bit cracked.
I think you're mixing up strong circumstantial evidence with innuendo, old chap.
Deletewhy did JK say happy birthday euan to spanner then
DeletePull your wagon in closer. Keep the circle tight.
DeleteA Carry On film??? �� What age are you 70????
DeleteThe guilt-by-association, in case you didn't spot it, was to imply that three dozen bods were all somehow implicated. Why else drag in Alistair Darling? Those literate enough to have read Alexander Pope will recognise the technique:
DeleteDamn with faint praise, assent with civil leer,
And without sneering, teach the rest to sneer;
Willing to wound, and yet afraid to strike,
Just hint a fault, and hesitate dislike.
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What age are you 70????
And a bit. Does the ageism come for free, or is it an optional SNP extra?
I didn't drag in Alistair Darling - I dragged in Maggie Vaughan, and simply explained for the unitiated who she is. (I had an exchange with her once and thought she was just some random SNP-basher.)
DeleteIncidentally, I'm not in any way suggesting those dozens of people are "guilty" of anything. I do strongly suspect, however, that at least some of them have a fair idea who Spanner is, and that the fact that they follow him in such huge numbers is a pointer to his identity.
I don't approve of ageism, but as you haven't posted here before it would be useful to know what your interest in this matter is?
as you haven't posted here before it would be useful to know what your interest in this matter is?
DeleteWhy?
Will my pseudonym be taken down, and you'll have the Bhoys sent round?
Or is it that "We are the precious chosen few, let all the rest be damned. There's only room for one or two, we can't have Heaven crammed!"?
Simple answer : Because it helps inform our understanding of your points if we know what brought you here. I see from your profile you're in London, so is your main interest in Scottish politics or in Rowling?
DeleteOh, and by-the-by, Margaret Vaughan (who may be addressed by her intimates otherwise) was — in my pre-dotage — a well-known journalist and capable book-reviewer for the Glasgow Herald (as it was). That is to say, a personage in her own right, and not some mere male appendage.
DeleteI see from your profile you're in London
DeleteIn the same way Wings over Scotland is from ... err ... anywhere near Scotland. Fortunately, I am more approximate to Wester Hailes than to Westminster.
Why should I not have an interest — even if it's not my "main" one — in political doings in Scotland? I suspect my knowledge of Scottish history, literature and culture is as rounded as the norm here. If you're setting an admissions exam., I'm up for it.
Jesus, give me strength. Neat way of avoiding an awkward question, by the way.
DeleteMalcolm, there can never be enough books, but there can be too many Labour activists, with no dog in the fight.
Delete@ jimnarlene, 6:22 PM
Deletethere can never be enough books: did you deliberately misquote that off my t-shirt (bought at National Steinbeck Center, Salinas, over a decade ago)?
Or is there really a SNiPper with some pretension to culture?
Euan McColm eh? This won't look good on his CV.His remarks about Margaret Curran and Female Genital Mutilation are reprehensible.His mates don't seem to mind though.They find it all highly amusing.You would have thought they would have begged McColm to tone it down a bit but no,they actually seemed to be cheering him on.
ReplyDeleteWasn't Euan McColm in the Bluebells or was it Deacon Blue?
DeleteI think it's a shame about Joanne Rowling. I get the feeling she used to have principles, standing up for one parent families and so on, but was corrupted by entering the filthy rich set. Maybe I would be the same. I think extreme wealth is generally a bad thing, especially when those afflicted develop a siege mentality between themselves.
ReplyDeleteBeing courted by the morons of the Scottish hackery has gone to Rowling's head. She not only writes fairy tales she believes she's living in one and that she's the Fairy Queen.
DeleteJoanne Rowling? Is that any relation to the better-known Janice? Or are there new villains of the piece?
DeleteI don't know if this is yet another example of unionist humour that exists at a level of such sophistication that only bats can understand it. But her name is definitely Joanne, not Janice.
DeleteLooking at that list of Twitter followers is I imagine what it would be like if I had a wee keek through the keyhole of Room 101.
ReplyDeleteThe clown left it up until Hotherstall told him about.
ReplyDeleteWibble.
ReplyDeleteHi Naebd, I've deleted your duplicate post. Not for the first time, I had to visit your Twitter account to work out what you were driving at. In spite of the fact that you apparently think I'm a "loony", by all means feel free to put your thoughts into the form of an actual sentence - as long as it's not abusive, there's nothing to prevent you posting here. (In fact no-one is banned from posting here.)
DeleteI saw that also. He forgot to switch Twitter accounts
DeleteYeah, Naebd would probably call me a 'loony' and a 'truther' for saying he's the same person as Commentor. But he can't, because he told me so himself.
DeleteOne person, two names. Who'd have thunk it?
So, is she going to sue or not? More britnat bullying. All the defence has to do is refer the judge to yesterdays WOS piece about Rowling's "likes" of Spanner McColm.
ReplyDeleteNot surprised at all.
ReplyDeleteWonder when this troll will be exposed all over the newspapers. Could be waiting a while.
I seem to recall in Rowling's Harry Spanner universe that the gutter, pro-establishment press with their poison pens were portrayed somewhat as the baddies. Brian Potter is of course a work of fiction.
ReplyDeleteAlso, on the off chance that a prominent Scottish journalist was to be proven to be behind the Barry Spanner sockpuppet account, it would be a bit uncomfortable for their employers as much of their work would have been carried out on Johnston Press (or Newsquest) computers and time. And there's probably a JP network drive full of pictures of Eck and Nicola annotated with speech bubbles calling eachother c***.
ReplyDeleteHas McColm denied any involvement ?
ReplyDeleteGreat opportunity for investigative journalism in unmasking Spanner, that is assuming they don't already know who he/she really is !!
Has Paco McSheepie denied any involvement yet?
ReplyDeleteMedia were all over identifying Paco. But Spanner? They seem strangely uninterested...
Deletejames---when brian spanner attacked curran,did the MSM or herself use that tweet as evidence of vile cybernats?
ReplyDeleteI did wonder how the Paco Mcsheepie account became public knowledge. It suggests that tracing an anonymous twitter account can't be that difficult. It was the Scotsman, as I recall, that revealed Neil Hay as Paco Mcsheepie, but I certainly wouldn't hold my breath waiting for any of our glorious MSM telling who's responsible for the almost pathological abusive filth of Spanner.
ReplyDeleteWe know who it is. It is Euan McColm. Why do you think Rowling jumped into stardrive to try (uselessly) to prevent further comment on Twitter about herself and Spanner. The circumstantial evidence is just too good for him to deny it.
DeletePresumably deep within their servers they also have the identity of one Fifi le Bon Bon and Toryboy...
DeleteI know who Fifi is (Kezia) but would "Toryboy" be her unionist partner in sin, Ruthie?
DeleteToryboy, who claimed on the Scotsman forum that, "concentration camps for the English would be the first order of business under any SNP 'executive.'", worked for Gouldie... His name escapes me...
DeleteWhen Tom Daley Olympic diver,received vile abuse from a troll,police had the person under caution within 3 days
ReplyDeleteBut Tom Daley is a unionist diver
DeleteHis name Spanner appears to be very apt.
ReplyDeleteJudging by the comments on here he's done a splendid job of loosening a few nationalist nuts.
Wonder if McColm will keep his job(s) if he is shown to be Spanner?
DeleteWhat will the effect be on the reputations of Rowling and all the other Unionist/Journalistic luminaries who are his personal/FB Friends?
What a wee Unionist Mess!
You almost feel sorry for them.
Not.
So you think it's funny do you? Too bad you or some female close to you wasn't a recipient of one of McColm's appalling 'jokes'.
DeleteIf it is McColm then there are no get out clauses or excuses for JKR.
ReplyDeleteOf course all those definitively stating that Brian 'Warwick Hunt' Spanner isn't Euan McColm must therefore know who it is. Surely they could clear all this up in an instant? Perhaps someone should adopt the genius tactics of McColm himself when searching for the identity of Wings over Scotland ('psst Euan, it's Rev Stuart Campbell just like it says on the site') and offer up a free curry to anyone willing to grass him up.
ReplyDeletewhy has no-one reported this guy to the police?
ReplyDeleteBe that person seize the day my friend
DeleteJust saw this posted on Wings twitter. Very illuminating, Hardly what you might call an occasional acquaintance.
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Alan
So, Anonymous @ 1:52 pm, is Muriel Gray now also on the hit-list?
DeleteEh? Muriel Gray isn't dishing out vile misogynystic abuse, or, as the Unionists call it, "hilarious banter". (I'm not the original poster, BTW)
DeleteShe might be on Rowling's great Unionist chum Brian Spanner's hit-list though.
DeleteThat person has a problem with women in general.
But Rowling thinks he's a "poodle-fondling Yoda".
Foolish Rowling's been, yes. Demanding money for menaces Rowling is, yes. Rich bullying hypocrite attended by thoughtless adoring sycophants Rowling is, yes.
@Anonymous, 6:12 PM
DeleteHold on! Your link dragged the sainted Muriel into this thread, without apology.
What brought me on board for this thread was the original post, signed by James Kelly. This provided a check-list of names, many of which I recognise as decent, (small-l )liberal souls. Providing such a hit-list in blog-posts is too often an invitation to one's followers to undertake hue-and-cry.
Which is precisely what ensued.
The massed ranks here present were loud: these were "right-wing" deviants, sympathetic to foul abuse and female genital mutilation (use the full term, chaps, don't hide the horror behind an acronym), and the gem (by another Anonymous, perchance?):
"a bunch of servile, political media type friendships in [Rowling's] inner circle ... a handy way to keep her name in the news or co-ordinate the next cybernat victimhood rant."
There is an argument about what is acceptable in blogs and chat-rooms. Whoever "Brian Spanner QC" is, I certainly wouldn't want to share a bar-room table with him. That's enough. Don't drag in every petty dislike you can entertain.
For about three years the press has hounded "cybernats" tracking them down and fearlessly exposing them to the world. Often to a chorus of approval by rich bullying hypocrites like Rowling and Blair "Joe McCarthy" Mcdougall.
DeleteThis is not a "hit-list"; a clique of Unionist journalists and bubble-headed luvvies retweet and converse with this abusive simpleton on a very, very frequent basis. They know him, go for coffee with him. There are tweets where people like Daisley make plans to meet up and hob-nob.
Now go back and read these hypocrites opinions about "abusive internet trolls" and witness the utter sanctimony of these precious little sleazebags and their money-with-menaces friend Rowling.
Spanner is a frequent tweeter, they are either know the stuff he is tweeting and think that is all right because he is a Unionist (in which case, "feminist" Rowling gives it tacit approval) or they are thick as mince.
Very interesting this sudden attack of the Arsene Wengers from Scotland's fearless press where internet trolls are concerned. It couldn't be anything to do with them all being friends with this person, would it?
Because of the obvious social connections between this person and Better Together's inner circle it is in the public interest to find out who this abusive misogynist is.
Not to worry though, I hear someone is about to get a short, nasty little expose followed by a termination of employment.
Spanner is about to get thrown under the bus.
Arsene Wenger is Brian Spanner? I'm confused
DeleteThe allusion is to Arsene Wenger who is renowned for "not seeing" things that are detrimental to his own side.
DeleteSometimes he wouldn't see these things when match day cameras showed him looking directly at these things.
The recent behaviour re Haggerty and Speirs over at Newsquest Paper Emporia Scottish Branch HQ, when linked and contrasted to the Herald's protective, promotional, and incestuous reportage of all things Rowling; serves as a timeous reminder of how ethically bankrupt and ideologically motivated Scotland's traditional print media has become. Far more concerning than the one-party state these hack freaks like to pump on about, is their own dominant messaging hierarchy. The treatment of a fine, fine woman like Phillipa Whitford being a case in point. In any other country with a balanced media, for every front page attack piece, there would be multplie columns and editorials going in to bat for her. NIT in Scotland where ideological bigotry transcend principle, self-awareness, empathy, decency, and integrity (see more Gardham LIES about SNP MPs again today). The lesson from this week is cleae: all of non-bloggers and writers are DEPENDING on SGP, Wings, Bateman, Bella, Commonspace, WGD, Ponsonby et all to find a place and position where a degree of unity prevails. Because from the Record to the Mail, the Herald to the Hootsmon, the Courier to Telegraph; we have NEVER needed an independent media sector more than we do now. Frankly, these largely non-Scottish owned wastes of tree pulp have gone off the deep-end since last May!!
ReplyDeleteWell said I for one will not rest until every msm Scottish journalist is unemployed. Its time to shut the papers down then we can create a free and fair media.
DeleteTotally agree with you but without The Herald, The Sunday Herald and The National how is a man supposed to keep up with what is going on in the Sporting World and my daily crossword?
DeleteI see a large void in my daily routine!
Online?
DeleteWell said I for one will not rest until every msm Scottish journalist is unemployed. Its time to shut the papers down then we can create a free and fair media.
DeleteBecause nothing says 'free and fair' like government mandated firings and newspaper shutdowns.
Point 4 above.
ReplyDeleteIt's also interesting how many of the same crowd of political journalist/columnist/editor types JK Rowling befriends on twitter, looking at the relatively small group of individuals she follows.
Times editor Farquarson, Israeli nationalist supporter and STV journo Daisley, Salmond obsessive Torrance, Record editor Torcuil Crichton,Jamie Ross,Sarah Smith,Iain Martin,Chris Deerin,Kuenssberg,Massie etc etc etc.
Cultivating a bunch of servile, political media type friendships in her inner circle must be a handy way to keep her name in the news or co-ordinate the next cybernat victimhood rant.
More of a politician these days than a kids writer it seems.
It's amusing how she still has to follow the abusive Spanner account, in order to maintain her stance in any court case - when she is obviously supportive of the individual behind it !
I suppose we won't be seeing any more sanctimonious cybernat abuse rants for a while though ..
JK PLagiarist is certainly friendly with a number of extreme Zionists. See her pathetic excuses for not supporting the boycott of Israel over their genocidal campaign against Palestinians.
DeleteAnd should the fragrant (smells of dead fish) JKP read this. How can Hogwarts be in Scotland when the village 2 miles down the road is called Hogsmeade? That's an English name, not found anywhere in my country.
How can Hogwarts be in Scotland when the village 2 miles down the road is called Hogsmeade? That's an English name, not found anywhere in my country.
DeleteYes, I can see your point. If there was a book with a secret village full of Wizards and talking snakes, I certainly wouldn't want to feel like it might not be realistic. Typical pro-Unionist media spin.
WHAT!!! Hogwarts isn't real GET OUT OF HERE!!!
DeleteIf it is him there will be a bit of sphincter twitching going on right now!
ReplyDeleteMore evidence:
ReplyDeleteBoth Euan and “Brian” have more than a passing interest in Disco music. Must be a coincidence.
https://twitter.com/search?q=from%3A%40euanmccolm%20disco&src=typd
https://twitter.com/search?q=from%3A%40brianspanner1%20disco&src=typd
And then there's this:
https://twitter.com/kevverage/status/693169652218904577
I think that Euan McColm is a bit creepy,what with all that stuff about female genital mutilation.His fellow journalists seem to think it's all ok though.
ReplyDeleteAll a big joke at their common enemy. Scottish people, poor people, women, men, children, non-londoners and anybody who isn't The Queen.
DeleteInteresting factlet. IfJKTrolling dropped dead tomorrow then the number of children in poverty in Scotland would decrease by several thousand. Maybe she'll take the hint? ;^) ( only Bantz like)
Chortle.
DeleteWhy are people even buying Harry Potter books when people are starving. Its food banks we need not book banks
DeleteDelighted to see Euan McColm and his alter ego be drawn through their own man made mire.
ReplyDeleteMcColm, was the chap who started the attack on the Cybernats (aka folk on the internet who didn't support the Union) back in 2009, ably assisted by his coterie of delightful chums, Peterkin, Gordon, Maddox and the deranged John MacLeod, when his esteemed journal the News of the World, threatened, cajoled and bullied bloggers, all the while demanding their employers sack them or companies and local authorities forego using their companies services.
A nasty vindictive chap, it's a delight to see him squirm it all away as an elaborate unfunny unlikely joke.
The one major flaw in the Rowling defence, is that she knows exactly who Brian Spanner is, because he donated some £548.50 to her Lumos charity. A charity that is registered and regulated in England where anonymous donations, although not encouraged are allowed, providing trustees look out for suspicious circumstances and put adequate safeguards in place. The fact that Spanner's charity donation was based on selling off ripped off Scottish Resistance t-shirts to a gang of similarly jovial right wing chums and is subject to some dispute over design, should allow some chap or chapess with the right kind of investigatory prowess or crowdfunded resources to ask questions of the Charity regulators, just which bank account the £548.50 which was deposited in the Lumos bank account originated from...
https://www.tboom.co.uk/the-scottish-resistance---kelloggs-bran-flakes-pact-fundraiser
Regards @DialMforMurdo
JK Plagiarist is still indulging in the bantz with her old mate. She and the rest of them really don't care. They are safe as long as we are under english rule and our tame media do exactly what they are told.
DeleteA woman who watched as blair's bombs turned Iraqi children into dogfood and though, " I really want these people to run the country. I'll give them £1,000,000 to help them get re-elected," is one who the World could well do without.
Jk is a rich woman who writes kiddies books. She is to political science,as David Beckham is to the Hedron Collider.
ReplyDeleteIn other words they are both ignorant but at least one of them sticks to something they are good at.
David Beckham works at the Large Hadron Collider? I was wondering what he was doing now he's retired from football.
DeleteAnon : Comment deleted. There's no point saying "so much for free speech" - I have made clear for SEVEN YEARS that extreme swearing of that sort is not allowed here.
ReplyDeleteAny chance of a breakdown by newspaper title on the journalists and commentators who follow BS1. That could give an useful insight into how interconnected these journos are?
ReplyDeleteRegarding the FGM tweet aimed at a unionist politician, perhaps McColm was toying with the idea of using Spanner as a false-flag troll?
ReplyDeletehttps://www.rt.com/uk/256213-general-election-snp-fix/
i hope it is him as me and euan will be having a wee chat
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