Academic Richard Taylor successfully sues Steve Coogan (comedian, mangina) over his film’s defamatory portrayal of him as misogynistic in his film about finding the remains of Richard III under a Leicester car park.

/ Mike Buchanan

Our thanks to Philip for this welcome news. The film not only presented Richard Taylor as misogynistic, it greatly overstated a woman’s role in the project. The academic Richard Taylor states:

“… it’s fantastic now, that we have established in court that The Lost King is a misleading, defamatory, untrue portrayal of what happened in Leicester back in 2012.”

Another extract from the BBC article takes up the remainder of this blog piece:

In a statement after the hearing, Mr Taylor – now the chief operating officer at Loughborough University – added: “Whilst it is clear to me that the defendants were misled as to the events of the discovery, they made a deliberate choice to accept those accounts, failing to speak or check basic facts.

“Our work is twisted into a false caricature of university elitism, ivory towers and self-interest.”

Mr Taylor said Ms Langley’s initiation of the project and “driving confidence” had made it possible for Richard III to be found.

He added: “Hers was a remarkable contribution. But it did not extend to leading the archaeological search or scientific analysis, for which she was neither qualified nor experienced to lead.

“I could have dropped Philippa’s approach for help into the waste bin when it arrived in 2011, and there have been days over the last three years when I wished that I had.

“But I didn’t, and my decision to deploy the resources and expertise of the university enabled this search to happen.”

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2 thoughts on “Academic Richard Taylor successfully sues Steve Coogan (comedian, mangina) over his film’s defamatory portrayal of him as misogynistic in his film about finding the remains of Richard III under a Leicester car park.”

  1. In the (otherwise) intensely realistic HBO production ‘Chernobyl’ the main character, a woman, never even existed.

    https://www.businessinsider.com/hbo-chernobyl-series-invented-nuclear-physicist-character-2019-6

    Ulana Khomyuk (played by Emily Watson) was an amalgam of multiple male Soviet scientists, and was introduced by the writer “to act as the audience’s moral compass.”

    These representations of women by male writers as the driving force who ‘get things done’, following an unerring moral compass… it’s pure projection of male qualities.

    Not much of a riposte to the unending parade of weak, indecisive, self-interested male buffoons inflicted upon us when feminist writers (male & female) project female qualities onto a masculinity which they will never, ever understand.

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