Terence Blacker

 

FROM THE INDEPENDENT

Cruel jokes are just a symptom

  At least we now know how, if you are a comedian whose career is becalmed, you can make yourself the centre of attention. You deploy one of the new swearwords. “Spaz” and “retard” are favourites and, as this week has, shown, “mong” can do the trick pretty well, too. Soon everyone will be talking... Read full article

BLACKER BLOG

Come off it, Blacker! A reply to some of my friends on the message-boards

It is an extraordinary fact that there are newspaper columnists who not only read everything which is written on the message-boards below their columns online, as all good columnists should, but sometimes actually dive into the shark-pool and splash about there for a while. They reply to criticism, put counter-arguments, soon to be followed by... Read full article