Richard Littlejohn is a columnist for the Daily Mail - arguably the most well known, because of his consistently appalling opinions. A former writer for The Sun, every week he spits bile assaulting the topics that he knows will wind up the people who calls ‘Guardianistas‘. Asylum seekers, gays and political correctness are amongst the favourite topics tackled by the man who is said to be Nick Griffin’s favourite columnist. Littlejohn’s attacks on “poovery”, as he calls homosexuality, have become so well known, that the Guardian have in the past actually run a “Littlejohn audit”, which in 2004 found that in the preceding year, he referenced homosexuality 104 times in 90 columns. Impressive.

Perhaps one of the most infamous Littlejohn columns, that really illustrate what an awful man he is, was his column shortly after the Ipswich murders, in which five prostitutes were killed. Richard, or “Dick”, as he may also be called, in his usual tactful style said that:

“in the scheme of things the deaths of these five women is no great loss.”

“They weren’t going to discover a cure for cancer or embark on missionary work in Darfur.”

Because obviously Littlejohn was writing this just after getting back from Dafur, having set aside a couple of minutes on the flight back to carry out some pioneering research.

When you think about it, being a columnist is really no better than being a prostitute- the only difference is that Littlejohn (thankfully) isn’t selling his body, but is selling his bigotry - and terrifyingly, the Mail are willing to pay upwards of £700,000 a year for this “service”.

One of the most famous Littlejohn moments was during an argument with Will Self on Radio 5 Live, about their respective books. Self admitted to only having read half of Littlejohn’s book, and then they had the following exchange when Self criticised it:

LITTLEJOHN: But you haven’t read the book in its totality and you have to read the book in its totality.

SELF: Why?

LITTLEJOHN: In order to understand it.

SELF: Does it turn into Tolstoy at page 205?

LITTLEJOHN: No it doesn’t turn into Tolstoy. I don’t set out to be Tolstoy. It is a much more complex book than that.

Amazing.

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