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Post by stu77 on Jul 19, 2021 8:42:33 GMT
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Post by doug61 on Jul 19, 2021 9:50:08 GMT
Yeah, the only way they can survive is to give up any pretense at level handedness and just go full out for the far right audience. On the occasions I have tuned in it seems to be just full on "magazine" style programmes and they don't have to be even handed so I expect after Farage they will go full gammon.
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Post by stu77 on Jul 19, 2021 11:09:36 GMT
Yes it'll be interesting to see if they sink as low as they'd like to.
Quiz shows with the the chance to slaughter Palestinians by drone.
Naked newsreaders (female of course with post feminist disclaimers telling anyone who doesn't like it to go fuck themselves)
Climate change denying 'science' documentaries.
Fuck Islam Hour with Tommy Robinson.
Pot the Reds. Nominate your local lefty do gooder / envy grievancemonger for exposure, character assassination and ridicule.
Possibilities are endless!
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Post by stu77 on Jul 22, 2021 13:02:40 GMT
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Post by Lord Emsworth on Jul 22, 2021 15:02:45 GMT
Tommy Robinson loses libel case brought by Syrian schoolboyAnti-Islam activist could face hefty legal bill after false claims led to Jamal Hijazi receiving death threats
The anti-Islam activist Tommy Robinson has lost a libel case brought against him by a Syrian schoolboy who was filmed being attacked at school.
The teenager received death threats after becoming a target for the far right.
Hijazi’s lawyers said they were delighted he had been “entirely vindicated”
The judgment leaves Robinson, who has previously been financially supported by right-leaning groups in the US, facing a heavy monetary penalty at a time when he claims to be bankrupt.
Robinson said he was “gobsmacked” by the costs Hijazi’s lawyers were claiming, which he said included £70,000 for taking witness statements. He added: “I’ve not got any money. I’m bankrupt. I’ve struggled hugely with my own issues these last 12 months ... I ain’t got it.”
Nicklin acknowledged “there are limits on what can be enforced against him” as a result of Robinson’s bankruptcy, but ruled he should pay Hijazi’s legal costs, which were not stated in court.
Robinson remains one of the UK’s highest-profile rightwing campaigners despite being banned from mainstream social media and beset by legal problems. The Luton-born activist has previously received hundreds of thousands of pounds in donations from wealthy international backers as well as ordinary supporters.
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Post by smogquixote on Jul 22, 2021 21:58:09 GMT
Tommy Robinson loses libel case brought by Syrian schoolboyAnti-Islam activist could face hefty legal bill after false claims led to Jamal Hijazi receiving death threats
The anti-Islam activist Tommy Robinson has lost a libel case brought against him by a Syrian schoolboy who was filmed being attacked at school.
The teenager received death threats after becoming a target for the far right.
Hijazi’s lawyers said they were delighted he had been “entirely vindicated”
The judgment leaves Robinson, who has previously been financially supported by right-leaning groups in the US, facing a heavy monetary penalty at a time when he claims to be bankrupt.
Robinson said he was “gobsmacked” by the costs Hijazi’s lawyers were claiming, which he said included £70,000 for taking witness statements. He added: “I’ve not got any money. I’m bankrupt. I’ve struggled hugely with my own issues these last 12 months ... I ain’t got it.”
Nicklin acknowledged “there are limits on what can be enforced against him” as a result of Robinson’s bankruptcy, but ruled he should pay Hijazi’s legal costs, which were not stated in court.
Robinson remains one of the UK’s highest-profile rightwing campaigners despite being banned from mainstream social media and beset by legal problems. The Luton-born activist has previously received hundreds of thousands of pounds in donations from wealthy international backers as well as ordinary supporters.
Mr. Robinson should cut down on the beak and he’ll probably be able to pay his court fines off no problem!
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Post by stu77 on Aug 22, 2021 22:52:23 GMT
Larkin is being cancelled for his private letters – can't we separate the art from the artist? As we approach Larkin's centenary, his awful private comments should not prevent us from celebrating the genius of his poetry We are experiencing a period of headless chickenism about the extent of our racism as a society. Of course, most of us aren’t racists, and therefore shouldn’t feel ashamed or contrite; and we shouldn’t condone those who are. But this raises the problem of Philip Larkin. In his well-documented private utterances, notably his correspondence with Kingsley Amis and the Sovietologist Robert Conquest, the poet was unquestionably awful about black people. He was asked to write a poem for the Queen’s Silver Jubilee in 1977 and in a letter to a friend facetiously suggested this: “After Healey’s trading figures,/ After Wilson’s squalid crew,/ And the rising tide of n-----s,/ What a treat to look at you.” Another squib gives full vent to his misanthropy: “Prison for the strikers/ Bring back the cat/ Kick out the n-----s/ How about that?” The idea that Larkin actually actively despised black people simply because they were black sits ill with his love of jazz, and of numerous black musicians who distinguished themselves in that genre. If one reads the offending material, contained in his letters and occasionally manifesting as offensive little poems he shared with his cronies, one quickly realises that racial minorities were simply another group of people unlike him whom he could childishly deride; he was, if you like, an equal opportunity bigot. didn’t much like his social inferiors, Leftists, and various other groups either, and seemed hostile to most women as well. He pretty much loathed existence: “Life is first boredom, then fear./ Whether or not we use it, it goes,/ And leaves what something hidden from us chose,/ And age, and then only the end of age.” He wrote that when he was 41; at 55 he lamented “The good not done, the love not given, time/ Torn off unused” and mocked religion as “that vast moth-eaten musical brocade/ Created to pretend we never die”, deeming death itself “the anaesthetic from which we never come round”. Indeed, the restive lower orders upset him more than any racial minority. “I want to see them starving,/ The so-called working class,/ Their wages weekly halving,/ Their women stewing grass./ When I go out each morning/ In one of my new suits,/ I want to see them fawning,/ To clean my car and boots.” He was, in short, a pretty miserable old boy. Next year is Larkin’s centenary, and when the time comes we should celebrate the genius of his poetry wholeheartedly. But for now, a public that perhaps needs Larkin’s penetrating realism and lack of cant and hypocrisy more than ever also needs to be protected from his critics: critics who attack him not for the quality of his verse, because they would make fools of themselves doing that, but because of his frankly objectionable character. There are those who make the case for not listening to Wagner because he was a blatant anti-Semite, or to Britten because of his unhealthy interest in young boys; or for not admiring Eric Gill because of his unhealthy interest in young girls; or who won’t read Dickens because he was a wife-beater. Larkin was a racist, than which there is currently no worse transgression in our culture. Gill because of his unhealthy interest in young girls; or who won’t read Dickens because he was a wife-beater. Larkin was a racist, than which there is currently no worse transgression in our culture. Young people may not believe this, but one could have walked into any saloon bar in England in the late 1970s and heard such sentiments as Larkin’s openly expressed, albeit less carefully crafted. Britain was a tired, fractious, badly governed and increasingly impoverished country run by the trades unions, and in that sense, though in no other, Larkin was its poet laureate. None of those three pieces of racist doggerel was meant for publication; they were to show off to his friends in writing in default of their meeting in the pub. Did Larkin actually believe what he wrote, or was he just ranting in a way designed to amuse his equally choleric pals? The latter, I feel sure. But Hull, where he worked as university librarian, is fretting about housing his statue; and Coventry, his birthplace, is being “UK City of Culture 2021” while barely noticing him. He is being cancelled already. But this is insane. Whatever his private opinions, he was the greatest poet in English since Eliot. And that is where we should begin our evaluation of him on his centenary. www.telegraph.co.uk/books/what-to-read/larkin-cancelled-private-letters-cant-separate-art-artist/
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Post by smogquixote on Aug 25, 2021 9:12:54 GMT
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Post by personunknown on Aug 25, 2021 10:09:34 GMT
Now if the show was presented by a thirty or forty something, James Acaster or Frankie Boyle for example, I might be interested. But an 81 year old who hasn't done anything since Fawlty Towers. Cleese has probably asked the programme makers if it's going to be available on a VHS box set later.
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Post by stu77 on Sept 12, 2021 2:56:08 GMT
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Post by doug61 on Sept 12, 2021 13:17:29 GMT
I'm with Lenny Bruce, nothing should be off limits to comedy. Whatever happened to the concept of "I may not agree with you but I will defend to the death your right to say it". The thing is they see themselves as trendy left wingers when they have the authoritarian views of the Taliban.
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Post by Lord Emsworth on Sept 12, 2021 15:19:36 GMT
I agree Doug
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Post by smogquixote on Sept 13, 2021 16:39:17 GMT
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Post by Lord Emsworth on Sept 13, 2021 18:48:08 GMT
Despite the upbeat nature of the announcement that's gotta be a big blow
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Post by smogquixote on Sept 13, 2021 20:25:43 GMT
Despite the upbeat nature of the announcement that's gotta be a big blow The differently-abled people on Twitter keep trying to put a positive spin on him trying to put as much distance between himself and the Titanic as possible. “The car is on fire, and there’s no driver at the wheel”.
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