I was reading Julie Burchill's column about her leaving the Guardian. It's a good article, go ahead and read it if you haven't already done so.
As you might have heard, I'm leaving the Guardian next year for the Times, having finally been convinced that my evil populist philistinism has no place in a publication read by so many all-round, top-drawer plaster saints. (emphasis mine.)
...if there is one issue that has made me feel less loyal to my newspaper over the past year, it has been what I, as a non-Jew, perceive to be a quite striking bias against the state of Israel.
An I the only one who thinks this is an ironic choice of words? (Hint: Palestine is the Greek form of the word Philistine.)
There may be is philistinism at the Guardian, but it wasn't coming from her.