London (CNN) It was a day in which Brett Kavanaugh did himself few favors. After the US Supreme Court nominee's hearing on Thursday, even commentators on Fox News portrayed him as an aggressor with, as one said, "guns blazing" -- the very opposite characterization the judge had hoped to achieve.

That was not only their assessment as they watched as Kavanaugh's accuser, Christine Blasey Ford, detail her allegations of sexual assault against Kavanaugh in their high school days.

Media around the world has also zoomed in on Kavanaugh's performance, with British news organizations in particular ridiculing Kavanaugh for his repeated denials of having high school drinking habits, and for unconvincingly painting a picture of his past as a conscientious student too consumed with sports to have time for women.

In the Opinion section of the Guardian, Marina Hyde wrote a satirical re-imagination of the hearing, in which she mocked Kavanaugh for his performance, including his moment of crying.

"I cannot stress how absolutely irrelevant things that happened in high school are. They are irrelevant, and meaningless. Do you know how much I worked out at Tobin's house during high school? Do you know what I could bench press in high school?" she wrote, in a caricature of Kavanaugh.