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Crikey. Are you really that upset by my reply? Of course I know you were not talking about him as a hack in the first post. That's why I separated your post, and then responded with posts that were deliberately in context. The first about hero-worshipping him generally and the second as a...

I beg to differ: And again: You regard him as a genius, the number 2 cultural figure in invention in the UK. Praise indeed. And he has the broadest range of any UK journalist ("hack"). Any UK journalist. That's some testimonial from you. That article is part of his output, it's the subject...

Ah right. So having a pop at a fat mockney TV chef and a group of ludicrous fops is not playing to the gallery with cheap shots? I'm pretty sure there's tumblr sites that beat Self to that gig years ago. I think there is a middle ground here that Bold Seagull appears to have taken that Self is...

Aside from Botton or Liddle who I've already mentioned? Martin Amis, Mark Steyn...off the top of my head. Love him or hate him, Peter Hitchens is an extremely versatile, prize-winning writer - have a look at what Peter Kellner says about him if you're in any doubt. There's plenty of hacks with...

Yes, much better than Parsons whose novels are cliched fluff. And Self is a much better novelist than just 'good' as I first wrote and that's where his satire is at its best, in my opinion. These articles he writes taking pops at various soft targets - not so good.

Ah..will do matey. I do Danny Baker a huge disservice then. Edit - just to add that I do love reading Self in full rant but I struggle to believe that he's that much of a polemicist in real-life. He's paid for these opinions and he's picked a very easy target (see also his views on Jamie...

I rather think that Will Self may have overheard someone describe Self as the sort of writer hipsters aspire to. I think there's a truth in that even if no-one has mentioned it to him: His detachment, the superciliousness, that sneer, the ennui of modern living that Self holds in such contempt...

Oh really? What invention has Will Self? A serious question because as far as I can tell he's a social commentator and author. No more and no less. I know he holds academic seats but there's no invention there, is there? Tony Parsons was doing the same 30, 40-odd years ago when he wrote for...