Toby Young Toby Young

So I’m supposed to take this online persecution on the chin, am I?

Toby Young suffers from Status Anxiety

issue 27 February 2010

Earlier this week I was seriously tempted to call the National Bullying Helpline. Ever since I wrote a blog for the Daily Telegraph questioning whether Alexander McQueen really was a ‘genius’, I’ve become a whipping boy on Twitter, the social networking site. The strange thing is, my chief tormentors are fellow journalists.

‘Alexander McQueen: a thundering f***ing pr*** has his say,’ tweeted Alexis Petridis, the Guardian’s chief rock critic, on the day the blog appeared. This prompted a reply from Caitlan Moran, a Times columnist: ‘Toby Young hasn’t done ANYTHING other than be a c*** since 1993.’ Janice Turner, another Times columnist, agreed: ‘I’d love my kids to go to that school set up by T Young. Timetable: double Latin, perving & insulting dead gays. V trad.’

Okay, nothing too demented there. Not the sort of remarks that would prompt the head of the Civil Service to issue a verbal warning.

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