It really is the more sensible approach (I think it may have been Goldy who said it) to presume everything Johnson says is just ****e and attempt to figure it out from there.
Akala has been referenced a couple of times on here recently. Here's an interview with him from a couple of years back... https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/p067g765 A brilliant man. (I did try to draw attention to this is on here at the time)
please log in to view this image please log in to view this image Phil Castang @Philcastang Happening right now. Letters coming down. Amazing #BLM
Contractors Refuse to Remove Statue of Scout Founder After Locals Rally to Protect It “I will fight you!” 11 June, 2020 please log in to view this image Finnbarr Webster/Getty Images 7 Comments After a campaign by a left-wing mob, contractors refused to remove a statue of the founder of the Scouting movement in the UK after locals rallied to protect it. After the statue of Lord Baden-Powell, which is situated in Poole Quay in Dorset, was put on a list of “racist” statues to be toppled by leftist extremists, the local council announced it would be temporarily removed and put into storage in order to “protect” it. “We know that local people feel proud of Lord Baden-Powell’s and the Scout movement’s links with Poole, and that some people feel that we would be giving in to the protesters by temporarily removing the statue. However, we feel it is responsible to protect it for future generations to enjoy and respect,” a town councillor said. However, when a group of local residents showed up to defend the statue and contractors refused to remove it while people were present, local authorities were forced to back down. One elderly man even vowed, “I will fight you” when asked by a Sky News reporter how he felt about attempts to remove the statue. A petition launched to protect the statue has now received over 21,000 signatures in just a matter of hours. The statue was targeted for removal by left-wing mobs after they claimed Baden-Powell had expressed sympathies with Nazis and the Hitler Youth. However, as Oliver JJ Lane documents, this is completely false. “The BBC reported the comments of historian Tim Jeal who said while Baden-Powell admired the Germans for encouraging young people to live an outdoor life, he ultimately “condemned Hitler for being a megalomaniac and for mounting what he called ‘huge pageants for hypnotising his people’”. “Further casting doubt on the claims, the article cited academic Dr Andrew Norman who noted that should the Nazis have been able to invade England in the 1940s, Baden-Powell was on the list of senior British figures they intended to execute, as a potential threat to the occupation. Baden-Powell had, after all, partly set up the Scouting movement to help young Britons to grow up capable of defending their homeland from external threats if required.” Baden-Powell was also widely recognized as a hero for his efforts during the Boer War during which he opened up soup kitchens to help feed 2,000 black Africans in Mafeking. As we highlighted earlier this week, leftists in the UK also expressed their desire to topple a statue of Charles, 2nd Earl Grey, a former British Prime Minister, despite the fact that he oversaw the abolition of slavery in the British empire.
Fawlty Towers 'Don't mention the war' episode removed from UKTV BBC-owned streaming service takes down episode that also features racial references Jim Waterson Media editor Thu 11 Jun 2020 20.11 BST Last modified on Fri 12 Jun 2020 00.05 BST Shares 6,470 please log in to view this image The cast of the BBC 1970s sitcom, Fawlty Towers. Photograph: BBC/PA An episode of Fawlty Towers famous for coining the phrase, “Don’t mention the war!” has become the latest “classic” British television programme to be taken down from a BBC-owned streaming service, as broadcasters continue to conduct a reappraisal of old British television content. The episode of the 1970s sitcom – in which John Cleese as Basil Fawlty goose-steps around a Torquay hotel while shouting the phrase – was recently removed from the BBC-controlled UKTV catch-up service. A spokesperson for UKTV repeatedly refused to clarify why the programme had been removed, or whether the decision was permanent: “We aren’t commenting on individual titles. However, we regularly review our programmes, and make edits, add warnings and make schedule changes where necessary to ensure that our channels meet the expectations of our audience.” Advertisement It is unclear what prompted the company to stop streaming the episode, which culminates in Cleese’s character making comments about the second world war to a German family. The original broadcast also included a scene in which Major Gowen, a regular guest at the hotel, uses very strong racist language in relation to an anecdote about the West Indies cricket team. A decade ago many broadcasters began editing out this part of the programme, although the racist language can still be heard on the version hosted by Netflix. The Fawlty Towers episode in question, first shown in 1975, also features Cleese’s bigoted character apparently shocked at being treated in hospital by a black doctor. please log in to view this image Sign up to the Media Briefing: news for the news-makers Read more The 11 other episodes of Fawlty Towers remain available to stream on UKTV’s paid catch-up service, which is delivered through pay TV partners such as Sky, Virgin Media and BT – along with standalone services such as Now TV. Growing scrutiny over historic racism in archive entertainment programmes is prompting broadcasters to check their back catalogues and respond to criticism of shows that were once considered to be family entertainment. There has been a substantial uptick in the attention paid to such issues as a result of the global Black Lives Matter movement, which is forcing media companies around the world to address racism within their organisations and in the output they produce and continue to publish. The BBC is reviewing programmes to check whether they comply with modern editorial standards and expectations, a process that has already seen the hit 2000s sitcom Little Britain removed from its iPlayer catch-up service in the wake of scrutiny over the use of blackface by its stars, David Walliams and Matt Lucas. The Little Britain follow-up show Come Fly With Me has also been taken down. While traditional television channels used to simply quietly stop repeating old shows that were no longer considered appropriate, the advent of streaming means catch-up services need to constantly reassess their back catalogues – attracting publicity in the process. Netflix has pulled the BBC programmes Mighty Boosh and League of Gentlemen from its service due to them featuring instances of blackface, although a BBC spokesperson confirmed that both programmes remained available on the iPlayer service. Earlier this week the Oscar-winning film Gone With the Wind was temporarily removed from the US-based streaming service after protests over its depiction of slavery. HBO responded to criticism of the film with a statement saying: “These racist depictions were wrong then and are wrong today, and we felt that to keep this title up without an explanation and a denouncement of those depictions would be irresponsible.” The streaming service added that the film would return to the platform accompanied by “a discussion of its historical context and a denouncement of those very depictions”, but would remain unaltered “because to do otherwise would be the same as claiming these prejudices never existed”. Last year BritBox, the catch-up service that promises the best of classic British TV, said it would not include some previously popular programmes that would now be considered racist, such the BBC’s Till Death Us Do Part and ITV’s Love Thy Neighbour. Streaming services are increasingly introducing warnings at the start of programmes alerting viewers to historic depictions of racism or language that viewers would not expect to find in a modern programme.
A few years ago in a BBC poll of a million people he was voted Britain's greatest Briton. Now he is being boarded up to protect him from the mob. Something has gone very wrong. please log in to view this image please log in to view this image
bloody racist architecture Lady Antebellum: US band change name to Lady A over slave-era links 11 June 2020 Share this with Facebook Share this with Messenger Share this with Twitter Share this with Email Share please log in to view this image Image copyright Getty Images Image caption Lady Antebellum - now Lady A - with the three Grammys they won in 2010 Chart-topping US pop group Lady Antebellum have changed their name to Lady A because Antebellum has connotations with the slavery era. The Nashville trio have won five Grammys and had seven US top 10 albums, including three number ones. The word antebellum is used to refer to the period and architecture in the US South before the Civil War. They say they took the name from the architectural style, but are "deeply sorry for the hurt this has caused". In a statement on Twitter, they said their eyes had been opened to "the injustices, inequality and biases black women and men have always faced" and "blindspots we didn't even know existed".
The Football Ladz will still be around to defend the statues/drink Carling/tell random black passers-by to go back to Africa just in case.
Annalise Dodds made herself look even more stupid than last week when being interviewed. Moaned about the economy shrinking and when asked what she would do she couldn't answer? The asked about numbers and she said ”i don't have those numbers I'm in opposition”? mmm funnily I heard today and I know? The interviewer then asked what she would do to get the economy back up and running? She then waffled for a bit which I didn't understand and the presenter had to say ”Your language here is confusing me”. It confused him! Thank God that shower is no where near the economy!
