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"Georgina, Georgina, Georgina... In the name of all human sanity: please just let it go. They were total scumbags, but its over. O-V-A-H."
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Marina Hyde"You know, almost every time Ive ever written about Richard Branson over the years, he or one of his lackeys has written in to the Guardian to whine about it, and often got the letter printed. This time, Im actively begging him to get in touch. Come on, Richard – write in and tell us why you didnt bother Googling why your friend with the best lawyers out there still got an 18-month prison sentence, and had, at the time of that email, settled many widely reported civil lawsuits brought against him by victims? Ill save you a space on the letters page."
Marina Hyde is an English journalist. She has been a columnist for The Guardian since 2000.
"Georgina, Georgina, Georgina... In the name of all human sanity: please just let it go. They were total scumbags, but its over. O-V-A-H."
"And so to Sweden, a country Assange regarded as so perilously likely to FedEx him to the US that he travelled there frequently until he was accused of rape in it."
"Entitled "My View", it sees the Satanic Slut attempt to gain some sort of purchase on this latest Jonathan Ross "outrage", the details of which I literally cannot be bothered to even look up, let alone confect horror over. The world can now be divided into people who genuinely think caring about this crap is important, and people you might wish to know socially."
"Liz Truss is now eluded by two major types of growth: economic and personal. The past few days have seen the former prime minister break her welcome silence with what her allies call a series of "interventions". The one intervention that doesn’t seem to have happened is the type where they sit you down and give you the hard truths about your behaviour. That treatment oversight has resulted in a spectacle of lavishly preposterous blame-shifting and self-delusion."
"Before we go any further, Im warned that any criticism of Assange will land me in the doghouse with those somehow still able to take him 100% seriously, and may even cause a section of commentators to suspect I am part of some Guardian plot against him. The reality is a thousand times less intriguing, alas, and may even land me in the doghouse with the Guardian."
"I am mortified to see I reacted to this by saying she should stop banging on about the whole thing."