I am really enjoying watching Christine Keeler. My Mum and Dad were in a Pub in Belvedere back in the day. and she was in there. The actress playing Christine is superb and a real stunner. I am also really enjoying Dr Who, it gets a bit preachy but as entertainment it is first class.
Agree about the Keeler programme. A fascinating period in British history, that has been well captured. I watched the beginning & end of Dr Who last night. I actually found it quite embarrassing. Poor acting from the main cast members, and a cringeworthy, politically correct t script which ended the story with a lecture. It used to be a quality programme under proper actors like Jon Pertwee and Tom Baker.
I find that comment really condescending and offensive. She is a young girl who is obviously on the spectrum. She is talking about a subject she is really passionate about. I find the vitriol she gets as disgusting. Just leave her alone. The comment about blowing her up doesn't even deserve a comment. I will ask a question to all the Fathers on here. How would you feel if it was your young Daughter getting this hate and vitriol?
Good post, Dick. I suspected ACS and AHLL of a bit of coordinated wumming with their posts, so didn't take them seriously. For example this is factually untrue, as ACS knows.
I would turn the question around - given her known issues, why has her father put her in this position since the age of 13. It is morally wrong, and an abdication of his responsibilities as a father. At that age she should be living a normal childhood including not being exposed to the level of social media vitriol that she gets. I fear that she will become a truly screwed up young adult.
Her father didn't put her in this position. When she started the school strike he tried to stop her, but she was so determined that she went ahead, and it's all escalated. He seems quite a conscientious parent, doing his best as we (nearly) all do without always getting it right.
She was 13. Parents are parents, kids are kids. A big part of being a parent is knowing when to say “no”.
Not being a perfect parent myself I don't lecture others on the subject of parenting skills. Whether he got it wrong or not I don't know, but he did not put her in this position, and did not exploit it, as some suggest.
Condescending and offensive? Wanting her to have a normal teenager's life instead of being totally fixated on an issue that is far more complex than she makes it out to be, and totally at the mercy of people who will use her to push their agenda without caring about her well-being at all. And those are just the people who suppsedly support her. Never mind the millions who dismiss, despise and hate the girl. Of course she should be left alone, by everybody. But if she's going to consort with environmental terrorists and criminals (Extinction Rebellion) and advocate changes in world economies that will cost millions of people their jobs and livelihoods, she is going to cop some hostility. Global warning is a real threat. But the World Economy is not a toy to be played with. Nobody has the right to say (in so many words) "best sacrifice this industry and put millions into poverty, in order to save other lives in some hypothetical future". If Trump said that he would get dogs abuse. As should anybody who thinks they can just re-organise the entire planet to the way they want it.
Well said Lardi... Australia shows that Global Warming is a major problem but it needs to be dealt with in an adult fashion otherwise nothing constructive will be done!