I quite like Esther Leslie, and I wouldn't mind hearing her more on music, but ... I don't think I'll pay £7.50 for that article.
― the pinefox, Tuesday, 9 June 2020 15:35 (three years ago) link
Fair play, it's free.https://tribunemag.co.uk/2020/05/lets-submerge
― the pinefox, Tuesday, 9 June 2020 15:45 (three years ago) link
Performative kneeling while burying the Labour report with its racism, is it
― glumdalclitch, Tuesday, 9 June 2020 15:52 (three years ago) link
Hoddeston is one of those towns up the A10, just outside the M25, built on white flight from north and east London.
― fetter, Tuesday, 9 June 2020 16:15 (three years ago) link
let's hope they fly further
― rolling keyring (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 9 June 2020 16:18 (three years ago) link
Real Ben Bradley country
― nashwan, Tuesday, 9 June 2020 16:20 (three years ago) link
― gyac, Tuesday, 9 June 2020 16:22 (three years ago) link
Confused because Hoddesdon is not in the Midlands or the North, where all the racists, who are all working class, live.
― Subverted by buggery (Tom D.), Tuesday, 9 June 2020 16:53 (three years ago) link
Yeah usually Essex has a great reputation.
― Matt DC, Tuesday, 9 June 2020 17:17 (three years ago) link
Rip Little Britain. Heaven need a tsunami of ‘computer says no’ jokes
― Le Bateau Ivre, Tuesday, 9 June 2020 17:29 (three years ago) link
I heard Starmer couldn't find a knee pad in his office for that kneeling photo and said oh I know what, I'll just grab a clutch of pages from the anti-black racism section from that superfluous leaked Labour report I'm never going to read.
― calzino, Tuesday, 9 June 2020 18:32 (three years ago) link
There are gammony types on Twitter demanding the removal of statues of the Prophet Muhammad. pic.twitter.com/Nd410ZDUVv— Jon (@ormondroyd) June 9, 2020
― Boris the Spreader (NickB), Tuesday, 9 June 2020 18:52 (three years ago) link
What's the culture war equivalent of death by friendly fire?
― Matt DC, Tuesday, 9 June 2020 18:54 (three years ago) link
A tragicomedy.https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2020/jun/09/derbyshire-towns-bust-of-black-man-seized-by-defiant-locals
― nashwan, Tuesday, 9 June 2020 19:08 (three years ago) link
it's a fertility thing, also it's not black it's turkish
― mark s, Tuesday, 9 June 2020 19:19 (three years ago) link
they decide its fate, not the Netherlands
― nashwan, Tuesday, 9 June 2020 19:25 (three years ago) link
it could be any colourthat said, we’re going to give it a lick of black paint
― Prosecutor Bradley Tankerton (bizarro gazzara), Tuesday, 9 June 2020 19:28 (three years ago) link
That head reminds me of one of those fortune-telling simulacra things you still get at some decaying seaside towns
― Boris the Spreader (NickB), Tuesday, 9 June 2020 19:30 (three years ago) link
simulacrum even
― Boris the Spreader (NickB), Tuesday, 9 June 2020 19:31 (three years ago) link
I do believe the Netherlands have some problems of their own with traditional figures which are racially offensive.
― Subverted by buggery (Tom D.), Tuesday, 9 June 2020 19:39 (three years ago) link
Matt Lucas shitcanned by i-player, netflix, britbox etc because of blackface content .. u loves to see it
― calzino, Tuesday, 9 June 2020 19:44 (three years ago) link
Time for him to whip out his hilarious impression of Boris.
― Subverted by buggery (Tom D.), Tuesday, 9 June 2020 19:46 (three years ago) link
Happening now: We are hundreds of people gathered in front of the Cecil Rhodes statue in Oxford. People refuse to learn, teach and live under the shadow of slave traders, colonialists and racists.#RhodesMustFall pic.twitter.com/kSVEZlLg9D— Dilar Dirik (@Dlrdrk1) June 9, 2020
― xyzzzz__, Tuesday, 9 June 2020 20:06 (three years ago) link
Milligan statue removed although this one has more of a 'let's get this into a museum before it gets vandalised' whiff
― nashwan, Tuesday, 9 June 2020 20:11 (three years ago) link
All Labour councils to review their statues btw, a lot of them will be coming down before they're torn down.
― Matt DC, Tuesday, 9 June 2020 20:11 (three years ago) link
they’d better be
― Prosecutor Bradley Tankerton (bizarro gazzara), Tuesday, 9 June 2020 20:12 (three years ago) link
The Milligan statue is about twenty years old, I can’t imagine which museum would be clamouring for it.
― ShariVari, Tuesday, 9 June 2020 20:14 (three years ago) link
maybe the guy who made it wants it back
― mark s, Tuesday, 9 June 2020 20:19 (three years ago) link
That Ashbourne sculpture story has definite League of Gentlemen vibes about it, the 'local consultation on its future' really really needs to be filmed and broadcast.
― bleach drinkers and health erasers (Matt #2), Tuesday, 9 June 2020 20:26 (three years ago) link
Yep. That stretch (Cheshunt, Broxbourne, Hoddesdon) had several BNP councillors not that long ago.
Just over the border in Hertfordshire, though I'm not trying to claim Essex is better.
― The Rampaging Goats of Llandudno (Nasty, Brutish & Short), Tuesday, 9 June 2020 20:37 (three years ago) link
I know copper prices are down right now but you could pay a few weeks salaries curator salaries by melting these down, I’m sure any musuem would welcome the opportunity.
― American Fear of Pranksterism (Ed), Tuesday, 9 June 2020 20:46 (three years ago) link
> Matt Lucas shitcanned by i-player, netflix, britbox etc because of blackface content .. u loves to see it
he was pretty apologetic about it a few months ago when it came up, said he wouldn't do it now. unlike the league of gentlemen who seemed fine with reviving papa lazarou for their recent comeback. (that said, LB did seem to go more for shock value than the others)
― koogs, Tuesday, 9 June 2020 21:32 (three years ago) link
It's all very well apologising now but the wanker and his arsehole pal made 3 seasons of this shit, it wasn't some one off aberration.
― calzino, Tuesday, 9 June 2020 21:40 (three years ago) link
Latest celeb-being-a-cunt-on-Twitter = Peter Shilton (though I understand he has previous)
All you people who are not happy with a government democratically voted by the people with 80 seat majority (and our great country )please go and live somewhere run by dictators (not elected )and see where your actions (like pulling down statues) gets you!!— Peter Shilton (@Peter_Shilton) June 9, 2020
Meanwhile Neville Southall has been letting a gambling addiction charity take over his account, now that's a real goalie.
― Anti-Cop Ponceortium (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Tuesday, 9 June 2020 21:40 (three years ago) link
to be fair though, if anyone thought that dictators were democratically elected, they've been set right on that score.
― Anti-Cop Ponceortium (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Tuesday, 9 June 2020 21:42 (three years ago) link
xps
and clowning disabled people as malingering benefit fraudsters was just so fucking hilarious as a comedy run up to a decade of austerity when both main parties in the UK decided they were quite expendable.
lol just about all footballers apart from Nev need to be executed and Shilts (is no fucking exception)
― calzino, Tuesday, 9 June 2020 21:46 (three years ago) link
love his his clunky use of brackets tbf!
― calzino, Tuesday, 9 June 2020 21:47 (three years ago) link
Not really relevant to anything, but via Shilts I've found what may be the worst profile on twitter
https://twitter.com/NeilPenny9
― Anti-Cop Ponceortium (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Tuesday, 9 June 2020 21:49 (three years ago) link
My local rag have made a story out of someone tweeting that the Harold Wilson statue needs to go because of UK post-colonial shithousery during the Nigerian civil war in the late 60's. And Barry Sheerwaste never misses an opportunity for a bit of dimwitted grandstanding over a tweet that got 7 likes!
― calzino, Tuesday, 9 June 2020 22:01 (three years ago) link
Hello @HouseofCommons @UKParliament can you find out who is sending out far-right threats from your IP address? pic.twitter.com/rorSTwD3FC— Dan O'Hagan (@danohagan) June 9, 2020
― nashwan, Tuesday, 9 June 2020 22:31 (three years ago) link
you really have to be well ensconced in the Westminster bubble and completely full of shit to believe that apocryphal old bollox about football being a spectator sport for the working classes!
― calzino, Tuesday, 9 June 2020 22:56 (three years ago) link
People are starting to realise that, not only is there no comprehensive plan for reopening schools in June, there isn’t one for reopening them in September either.
https://www.theguardian.com/education/2020/jun/09/johnson-urged-to-set-out-recovery-plan-for-schools-in-england
― ShariVari, Wednesday, 10 June 2020 05:12 (three years ago) link
Nor is there one for what to do in the event they have to keep them closed. I missed 6 weeks of 3rd year for illness and it took me forever to catch up; the idea that kids can just move up a whole year this autumn is wild.
― stet, Wednesday, 10 June 2020 08:45 (three years ago) link
unlike the league of gentlemen who seemed fine with reviving papa lazarou for their recent comeback. (that said, LB did seem to go more for shock value than the others)
Papa Lazarou sketch is playing up and taking the piss out of the Middle England fear of the horrible outsider coming for your way of life though, Little Britain is white dudes depicting black people for laughs. (The LoG did decide to just double down on the Barbara stuff though although Mark Gatiss at least appeared to realise this and tried to balance it out with the bingo caller).
― Matt DC, Wednesday, 10 June 2020 08:50 (three years ago) link
xp
Moran was questioning Williamson about this yesterday - on the idea that 100k laptops had been disbursed and another 230k were pending, pointing out that even if they sent 330k, that's less than half of the number of kids without any access to computers / internet, to which he inevitably had no response.
― ShariVari, Wednesday, 10 June 2020 08:50 (three years ago) link
Meanwhile..
This is the absolute classic form of British corruption. Ministers give a large benefit to a rich person or company, at the public’s expense. And then their party is paid a tiny sum of money. https://t.co/ORri8lTtmf— James Mackenzie (@mrjamesmack) June 10, 2020
― xyzzzz__, Wednesday, 10 June 2020 08:55 (three years ago) link
At almost every development stage this is going to lead to a big educational deficit that needs to be recovered, and not all kids are in the same boat on this one, it's obviously going to favour children with the most actively involved parents and those with more time on their hands. I don't see how they can get out of this without having everyone repeat a year and that's going to require legislation that the government is unlikely to put forward.
― Matt DC, Wednesday, 10 June 2020 08:56 (three years ago) link
(Also every newspaper that normally wouldn't care about a story like that is going to want to give Richard Desmond a kicking).
― Matt DC, Wednesday, 10 June 2020 09:00 (three years ago) link
I'm sorry but the Daily Mail doing a pros and cons list of slave owners has absolutely ended me pic.twitter.com/NsdfY3NgOF— Zing Tsjeng (@misszing) June 10, 2020
― gyac, Wednesday, 10 June 2020 09:11 (three years ago) link
£12k is chickenfeed. I think that is about how much Jess Phillips got from her property developer pal. Obviously it is just an initial down-payment.
― calzino, Wednesday, 10 June 2020 09:14 (three years ago) link