Nick Robinson reports on Harriet Harman’s new National Equality Panel :
She spoke instead of “investigating how “people’s life chances” are impacted by “where they were born, what kind of family they were born into, where they live and their wealth” as well as their gender, race, disability and age.
It does seem so wrong that a child’s life chances are so dependent on who their dad is :
James Naughtie was out covering the Republican National Convention in Minnesota for the Today programme last week.
Meanwhile, I couldn’t help but notice that the name of a certain Andrew Naughtie appeared at the end credits of Newsnight’s coverage of the same event.
Was this a coincidence, I wondered, or could they by any chance be related?
“Ah yes, that is Jim’s son,” says a BBC spokesman when I call.
“He’s one of a number of students we’ve got on work experience at the moment.
“They are all helping out with our election coverage – though I’m not certain how many of them were actually sent to the convention.”
(The Indie piece is by Henry Deedes, grandson of the late William Deedes, former Telegraph editor and newspaper veteran. Can’t say the BBC aren’t conforming to generally accepted industry standards.)
Hat-tip – Peter in the comments.
UPDATE – via DB in the comments, young Master Naughtie reviews the film ‘Rendition’ in the Bristol University paper :
Rendition is a major foreign policy issue for the US since the extent and implications of its use were uncovered in 2002; the torture and human rights abuses that rendition involves have severely tainted the USA’s international reputation …
In these dark times, we need mainstream Hollywood films that will tackle uncomfortable subjects like this head-on and dare to show us that those acting in American interests may not be good people … the shocking truth of Rendition just isn’t enough.
Actually Harmen and her like open their mouths the conservatives gain another percentage point.
“There used to be a, ‘lower class’, in this country; powerless, exploited, bled dry, kicked around and despised.
Now they are called, ‘English’.
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With the Scottish Nationalists gaining ground in Scotland. Labour will have to rely on English voters (so not much chance there).
Isn’t it funny how leftists care not a jot for the smallest, most downtrodden, threatened and oppressed class of all….the individual?
How old is wee Master Naughtie? An angst-ridden 17 year old who has the secret of the universe in his hands, if only someone would listen?
I wonder why the Beeb imagined that adult license-extortion victims would be interested in geo-politics from the point of view of an adolescent.
There must be something about having wealthy important parents. Their offspring standard rebellion against parents is invariably by espousing socialism. They then get the best of both worlds. Parental influence up the greasy pole of work and no guilt as they worry a lot about the poor (but are not one of them)
Sounds to me like the young tyke should stick to harry potter and masturbation , instead of working with daddy at my expense. Another new labour seed at the bbc .
Harriet Harman isn’t a real person; she’s actually a character in a famous American short story. Just google “Harrison Bergeron” and it will all become clear.
With the Scottish Nationalists gaining ground in Scotland. Labour will have to rely on English voters (so not much chance there).
That’s why they are importing millions of Muslims into your country. . .no need to worry about the dreaded uncooperative Anglo-Saxons when you can import a whole huge voting bloc of hostile foreigners to make them irrelevant.