Talk:Jeremy Hardy

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He was a supporter of the Irish Republican Army (IRA).

Is there a source that can confirm this? Edward 11:29, 26 November 2005 (UTC)

He has forced retractions of claims that he has ever supported the IRA, which were made because he was a notable supporter of Danny McNamee, who was wrongly convicted of involvement in the Hyde Park bombing of 1982. (McNamee's conviction was quashed in 1998.) Jeremy Hardy has always made clear that he supported Danny McNamee (who himself has consistently denied even sympathy for the IRA) as the victim of a miscarriage of justice. Flagboy 10:57, 24 December 2005 (UTC)

Contents 1 photo? 2 edit as of 18/09/2006 3 Jeremy Hardy Speaks to the Nation 4 Upper-class English accent

[edit] photo?

Is there a photo that could be added, please?

There you go - hopefully qualifies as fair use. veghead 18:44, 15 July 2006 (UTC)

Not without a source, rationale, or evidence that it qualifies as a publicity photo. The JPS^{talk to me} 19:30, 19 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] edit as of 18/09/2006

I have requested citation on the claim that Mr Hardy "stated that all BNP members and supporters should be shot in the back of the head". All the citations supplied thus far deal with the controversy surronding the alleged remark but none carry the quote in full, nor in context. I have also removed a citation of the BNP's website which, as well as being a neo-Nazi site and as such not a reliable source of information about anything, is POV to cite as a source for the alleged remark. GideonF 01:55, 18 September 2006 (UTC)

The specific quote comes at the end of a short piece in which Hardy says that the difficulty of being left-wing is that you have to see everyone's point of view. An illustrative speech is then spoken by Rebecca Front, followed by the remark by Hardy (punctuation mine) :

"..and I just think, well that's all well and good but if you just took everyone in the BNP and everyone who votes for them and shot them in the back of the head, there would be a brighter future for us all."

It occurs at 7:38 in the mp3 I referred to, series 6 episode 1, "How to be Afraid".

[edit] Jeremy Hardy Speaks to the Nation

Initially, that link lead to a redirect back to this page. However, I have made a start on the page, so it would be great if any of you good people could help out (I'm still quite a newbie here at Wikipedia)StephenBuxton 12:51, 1 February 2007 (UTC)

Citation for "He used to write a regular column for The Guardian but was fired, allegedly for supporting the Socialist Alliance in his columns.[citation needed]": http://www.guardian.co.uk/Columnists/Column/0,,468272,00.html Someone else can do the business.

[edit] Upper-class English accent

The article says that he delivers in an upper-class English accent. He does sometimes put on an upper-class English accent for comic, often satirical, effect, but that is not his usual way of speaking.--Oxonian2006 (talk) 22:10, 7 March 2008 (UTC)

That struck me as a bit off, so I've removed it. His accent is standard middle-class south-east England, if a bit nasal. Nic Dafis (talk) 12:40, 23 May 2008 (UTC)