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ristac said:
In reference to your blonde wife not noticing.

I cheer on Lewis Hamilton as he’s a Brit but as a person I think he’s a bit of a prick. One thing that made me think about things was Toto Wolff. Toto said Lewis asked him “have you ever in your life woke up and thought about your skin colour and acceptance in society” Toto said no and it struck home with him
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As I've been saying to anyone that would care to listen (and learn), please read Michael Holding's book Why We Kneel, How We Rise.

It's not accusatory or inflammatory. It's educational. It really made me stop and think hard about my own behaviours (and I wouldn't consider myself at all to have any racist feelings), and moreover to start to really get an idea of how it feels for people who have experienced oppression through the colour of their skin.

It really is so well worth it.
 
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Le Tissier's Laces said:
As I've been saying to anyone that would care to listen (and learn), please read Michael Holding's book Why We Kneel, How We Rise.

It's not accusatory or inflammatory. It's educational. It really made me stop and think hard about my own behaviours (and I wouldn't consider myself at all to have any racist feelings), and moreover to start to really get an idea of how it feels for people who have experienced oppression through the colour of their skin.

It really is so well worth it.
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Absolutely endorse that recommendation.
 
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ristac said:
I was open minded about it all but felt something was not quite right. He went back for a second spell and invited some of the accused to his wedding. Was he genuinely upset by it all or was he joining in with “some” of it as banter?

In the case of Vaughn I read somewhere he used the term “you lot”. Is this racist or insensitive? Take it another way, if it was three Australian test team members and you used the term “you lot” is that racist?

Then last week he was guilty of posting his own racist remarks and inappropriate behaviour on a plane with a 16 year old.

My issue is you know he won’t be tarnished with the same racism brush as those he has accused. His crimes are not lesser than those he is making accusations against. Yes if the accused are guilty deal with them but deal with Rafik in the same manner.

The issue with racism has a few varied problems. We have a huge proportion of 50-60 something year olds who grew up accepting Jim Davidson, Love Thy Neighbour, Until Death Do Us Part and Freddie Starr were all very funny. Times are changing and the older you get the harder it is to accept change. Paddy and Jock are these racist terms? Within the next 20 years they’ll probably be frowned upon as much as P and N are now. I only discovered last week that the word Eskimo is actually considered racist.

Rappers and music artists are releasing records with degrading comments to women, using words like bitch and the “N” word so kids are growing up thinking it’s acceptable behaviour.

The approach to racism is wrong, we need to teach why it is wrong. Issuing fines or bans from stadiums as a punishment breeds more anger and resentment, it fuels more racism, it isn’t a cure.

Companies like Sky and BBC are going through box ticking exercises, best person for the job is fine but we all know they’re scampering for more women and dark skinned presenters. It angers a huge percentage as does the taking the knee before games. This wasn’t thought through either.

It divides opinion which defeats the object, many feel BLM is too close to American extremist, Sky adopted and pioneered for this ignoring the UKs very own “Kick It Out” as it was probably on trend for them.

I don’t wish to argue about BLM or taking the knee, just pointing out it was a gesture that didn’t have everyone on board, it created more divide.
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Good post!
A question that often crosses my mind is what percentage of the adult population can, hand on heart, say that they have never made a racist, homophobic or other overtly discriminatory comment, or held such a discriminatory opinion or thought ?
 
Never mind Peppa Pig who is going to save Spaffer Johnson's bacon now? Letters of no confidence in his leadership are flowing into the Chair of the 1922 Committee.

Johnson is responsible for many Tories with multiple "jobs" having their snouts unceremoniously yanked out of the trough with his ineptitude.

They wont forgive him for that.
 
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This really rankles, with me.
The government has already spent a lot of taxpayers money, losing their case, yet they are now throwing even more taxpayers money at an appeal.
Maybe it’s time for those who lose these cases/appeals to settle all punitive and legal costs from their own pockets, instead of being granted what is, in anything but name, an exorbitant amount of money in Legal Aid.
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Dear Badger --

Tomorrow, we’re in Court. The Government is appealing the High Court's ruling that it acted unlawfully - that there was apparent bias - in its award of a contract to associates of Dominic Cummings and Michael Gove.

Our lawyers have been working round the clock to defend this appeal. If we do lose, Good Law Project will be on the line for all of Government’s costs (and our own) from the first hearing and the costs of the appeal. It’s a huge sum of money and more than we have raised.

Back in June, when the High Court ruled that the Government had acted unlawfully by handing a contract to a company owned by associates of Cummings and Gove, it vindicated what Good Law Project had been saying all along: there is institutionalised cronyism at the heart of Government.

We think the real reason for the Government’s decision to appeal the Court’s ruling is because they want to delay another case we are bringing regarding the award of another contract to allies of Michael Gove, this time to a company called Hanbury. That case cannot be heard until this appeal is over. We think they want to delay another embarrassing loss.

But we’re not going away. We will use the appeal to make the point yet again that handing taxpayers’ money to your mates is no way to run the country.

It’s unfair and it’s unlawful.

Thank you,

Gemma Abbott - Good Law Project


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Embarrassing.
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One thing that has been noticeable, as conservativism in the English-speaking countries increasingly takes a turn toward the weird, is the serious decline in the quality of staffers in the offices of MPs/members of Congress. Having total ****wits in positions of authority is sadly nothing new, but it used to be that you minimized problems because their every move and utterance was scripted by smart people.

When the Secretary of Culture asks a question, it's a safe bet that the question was written by or at least screened by their staffers, and clearly the staffers didn't know something that ought to be obvious given their purview, and couldn't even be bothered to Google it. The fish may have started rotting from the head down, but the whole body is now just a fermented puddle of fish goo now.
 
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