NEW OPEN THREAD….
Hi all. Sorry for the lack of posts but I have been across in France for the past several days and came home to power cuts!!! The floors is yours….
Hi all. Sorry for the lack of posts but I have been across in France for the past several days and came home to power cuts!!! The floors is yours….
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CPtStl81Fyk Why is the BBC’s use of a West Indian tune for its Test Match cricket theme not racist? Surely it is mocking Afro-Caribbean culture? Is it not cultural theft and mis-appropriation? Modern day slavery exploiting Black people and their work for white people’s profit and gain. Mike Read has unfortunately caved in to the intimidation and bullyboy tactics of a few race … Continue reading
BBC open to charging subscriptions for premium content, head of Corporation’s trust reveals The BBC would be open to charging subscriptions for premium content, the new head of the BBC Trust has revealed for the first time. Rona Fairhead, who took up her new role two weeks ago, said that subscriptions could be an “intelligent way” to generate extra money for the Corporation. Asked whether “niche” and “premium” programmes could … Continue reading
The BBC brings us a celebration of girl power: Wonder Women: busting stereotypes across the world On 28 October the BBC will host a day of events focusing on the power of women – those who have changed the world around them and inspired others to do the same. Our keynote speakers include Joyce Banda, president of Malawi from 2012 to 2014 and named by Forbes magazine … Continue reading
We know that Labour’s mass immigration policy was a secret scheme to ‘brown Britain’, to rub the Right’s nose in diversity, and that it was to be done without alerting the working classes who would undoubtedly see it for what it was…a policy designed to eliminate them from their place in Britain…to be replaced by a compliant workforce who will work cheaply and come ready educated and trained….something Labour … Continue reading
This morning John Humphrys mentioned that there had been a backlash against Miliband’s ambush on Cameron at PMQs when Miliband tried to exploit the disabled as a political football. Unfortunately there was no sign of the man himself who cobbled together this tissue of lies…Miliband, as ‘Thoughtful‘ said in the comments, has lit the blue touch paper and disappeared like the proverbial Cheshhire Cat, grinning at the chaos that has … Continue reading
Paris has the Eiffel Tower, we have the Matthew Parris, a tower of Piffel. Matthew Parris, the wettest of wet Tories, the great mouldering tower of Piffel that he is, doesn’t like criticism….his critics, all rightwing fanatics….a bilious, bigoted, resentful underworld of fomenting Fascism given voice by the affable Nigel Farage…. Reading the comments on my Ukip columns, I finally understand the Nazis It’s these voters’ opinions about … Continue reading
The BBC broadcast this recently… Rwanda’s Untold Story Twenty years on from the Rwandan genocide, This World reveals evidence that challenges the accepted story of one of the most horrifying events of the late 20th century. The current president of Rwanda, Paul Kagame, has long been portrayed as the man who brought an end to the killing and rescued his country from oblivion. Now there are increasing questions … Continue reading
Rudyard Kipling is described as an imperial racist by the BBC which can prove that contention by quoting to us Kipling’s poem ‘The White Man’s Burden’. This poem supposedly encourages Imperial conquest and obliges White people to go forth and civilize the more brutish and barbaric parts of the world….or you could interpret it as…if you are going to invade and turn a part of the world into a … Continue reading
When you are reading this, I should be in Paris and so beyond the reach of the BBC! Here’s a new thread to see you off into the weekend. I’ll be back Monday night.