Talk:Jeremy Hardy

IRA ?

User:195.92.194.12 added:

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)

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 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".

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.

The source is clear, he was told that his column "doesn't have enough jokes". The SA issue was merely about whether he went before or after the election. The source doesn't claim the SA issue contributed to him being fired. 144.32.128.73 (talk) 19:49, 25 February 2012 (UTC)

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)

Alternative comedian?

Perhaps in the past his comedy wasn't mainstream, but is it fair to say that today he is an "alternative comedian"? He's on radio 4 doing some of the most mainstream stuff there is (not to imply that as a negative). Plus some of his recent stuff hardly fits with the "alternative comedy" article. "You'll have had your tea" is pretty much Benny Hill, hardly alternative. Maybe fair to say he was once part of the alternative comedy movement? But is now just a comedian. Making jokes about how posh the Tories are is not longer a shocking new thing. 144.32.128.73 (talk) 11:29, 25 January 2012 (UTC)

Socialist?

What's the source for this? He sounds more like a member of the Liberal Elite to me. I think 'left-wing' would better represent a NPOV. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2.24.141.38 (talk) 20:32, 28 October 2012 (UTC)

Hardy refers to himself as a socialist regularly on radio, but are there any written references that could be used? Seems off to categorise him as an "English socialist" without mentioning that in the main body. U+003F^? 00:34, 16 September 2016 (UTC)

I have heard that he befriended Jeremy Corbyn and they were known as "the two Jeremys". Vorbee (talk) 16:25, 1 February 2019 (UTC)

Corbyn paid this tribute via Twitter, today: [1] Martinevans123 (talk) 16:31, 1 February 2019 (UTC)

I don't think there's too much doubt about his socialist commitment (as long as you resist the temptation to get into a "What is socialism?" debate). But a nice factual sentence or two on it, based on a couple of robust sources, would be helpful. Presumably there will be one or two obituaries and tributes published over the next couple of days that can be invoked. Charles01 (talk) 16:39, 1 February 2019 (UTC)

Adopted daughter, divorce and remarriage

These details seem plausible, but as per Wikipedia:Biographies of living persons#Reliable sources I've removed this information as it is all unsourced ~dom Kaos~ (talk) 13:34, 9 September 2017 (UTC)

Seems to be now fully sourced. Martinevans123 (talk) 10:19, 2 February 2019 (UTC)