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 fing pr has his say,” tweeted Alexis Petridis, the Guardian’s chief rock critic, on the day the blog appeared. This prompted a reply from Caitlin 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 that school set up by T Young. Timetable: double Latin, perving & insulting dead gays. V trad.” (To read more, click here.)
