Gay Shorts by Iain Dale

Author:Iain Dale [Iain Dale]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781849548830
Publisher: Biteback Publishing
Published: 2015-10-22T16:00:00+00:00

He concludes with this stonker of a question: ‘Did Dusty really have an affair in Mustique with Princess Margaret? If I am sceptical it is only because Hanoverians have small chins.’ No, really.

Katy then reminded me that my company was due to be publishing Mr Lewis’s next book. I replied: ‘Fuck me gently. Are we really publishing him?’ It turned out that contracts had not yet been signed, so I decided to tell Mr Lewis to find someone else to publish his book as I didn’t, and don’t, want to be associated with someone who can write such utter homophobic garbage.

So, I’ve burned bridges with one of The Spectator and the Mail on Sunday’s leading book reviewers. Hey ho. Sometimes commercial considerations have to take a back seat.

Had I not done this, I couldn’t have looked myself in the mirror – let alone Katy and several other members of staff who had expressed similar outrage.

Roger Lewis is a highly respected, well-connected and prolific book reviewer. Indeed, he’s reviewed a great many of our books in the past. The decision that I made and the action that was taken could conceivably come back and bite us. But the company’s not called Biteback for nothing.

We naturally informed Lewis that we were pulling his book. His reaction? ‘I can’t stand political correctness and the denial of freedom of speech that it can (and does) impose. I think Iain Dale sounds an idiot, with no sense of humour. It was a brilliantly written piece, and funny.’ Even if he does say so himself.

I don’t like political correctness either, and I know something funny when I see it. This wasn’t funny, or even remotely amusing. What I do not understand is why The Spectator saw fit to publish it in the first place.

Homophobia needs to be called out whenever and wherever it raises its ugly head, even at some commercial or public relations cost. If we just ignore such things, what kind of people are we?

Writing in that style about Jewish people or ethnic minorities would not be considered acceptable, so how can it be acceptable to write in that manner about lesbians?

By the way, Katy Scholes has a lovely chin. And she thrusts it very well. So she tells me.

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