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Pushing the idea of 'white privilige' - BBC propaganda aimed at kids!

The BBC, our State Broadcaster, is promoting the idea of  'white privilige' in it's 'Bite-Sized' schooolkids broadcasts. Can it be right that this propoganda should be drummed into our kids' minds? https://t.co/t7LIENTnPn?amp=1 Noticeable that the presenter is both black and privilged himself.  And has a white beard!

Swing Low Sweet Chariot - let's put all the cultural baggage aside and appreciate a great song

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Today I want to talk about how today’s debate about race and injustice seems to have drifted off into a world of intolerance and hyper sensitivity – where everyone is, or professes to be, angry and ready to take offense about pretty much anything – statues, historic slavery, microaggressions and cultural appropriation, attitudes from years ago.    I want to make a plea for everyone to stop rushing to judgement and to take offense, because in a real way that is the perfect example of prejudice. It seems we’ve got this rush-to-judgement in our DNA – when we were hunter gatherers, we needed to know at a glance whether a wild animal, for example, was dangerous.   Of if someone posted a threat – stopping to worry about prejudice didn’t come into it. It was a matter of life and death. So, today, we still can’t help ourselves, to a degree … but what we CAN do is recognise this genetic programming and check ourselves.   It’s a Christian thing to do.   We’re no longer being attacked by sabr

New York City has voted to slash $1billion from the NYPD budget.

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Amazing! New York City - which has been gripped by weeks of protests that has seen stores looted, fireworks set off, statues daubed with paint and rising crime including shootings - has voted to slash $1billion from the NYPD budget. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8477917/NYPD-clash-protesters-outside-City-Hall-NYC-votes-cut-1Billion-NYPD-budget.html

Thank God for Ricky -

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https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-8522633/Ricky-Gervais-continues-slam-cancel-culture-defends-free-speech.html 'Just because you're offended it doesn't mean you're right': Ricky Gervais brands 'cancel culture' a 'weird sort of fascism' as he defends free speech ·          The comedian, 59, described 'wokeness' as 'a weird sort of fascism' amid calls for 'the free exchange of information and ideas'  ·          Just last week, actor Ricky said his hit TV show The Office would struggle to air today due to online 'outrage mobs'  ·          In February, he spoke out against stars who used their acceptance speeches to lecture about politics, human rights and animal welfare at the Academy Awards ·          150 celebrated authors, academics and journalists including Margaret Atwood and Salman Rushdie recently signed a letter criticising 'cancel culture'  ·          JK Rowling backed the movement a

Police infiltrate encrypted system, arrest hundreds 'leading secret criminal lives', and seize £54m

https://news.sky.com/story/operation-venetic-police-catch-hundreds-suspected-of-leading-secret-criminal-lives-by-cracking-codes-12019558?fbclid=IwAR2R2xHCRTRw8sFhzA9PDIAy24KC0pIp4O4SnXbIHZHrSjRne-sij66XUQQ

If we're being consistently woke about statues, Keynes must surely be the first of the Left to fall

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Clipped from : https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2020/06/30/consistently-woke-statues-keynes-must-surely-first-left-fall/ Many of the Left’s heroes will have to join him for sharing his interest in eugenics, including William Beveridge and Keir Hardie John Maynard Keynes Credit: Planet News Archive  The Telegraph reports that Gonville and Caius, one of Cambridge’s oldest colleges, intends to remove a memorial window dedicated to Sir Ronald Fisher, a former President of the college, because of his connections with eugenics.  This follows acts of vandalism around the college and a student petition. Another right-wing racist to bite the dust, after Oxford’s Oriel College council voted that Cecil Rhodes must fall? Perhaps. But just the other side of the Senate House, my old college King’s must surely be next in line. And for a much more famous figure of the last century, John Maynard Keynes. I am not the biggest fan of Keynes’s economics, but there’s no doubt that he

For all those obsessed about historic racism - this is happening now

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/amp/world-asia-china-53259557?fbclid=IwAR3Fk_3NGTcxyhjtP0oIrAzqW8cdNGi1zLaZZoKW5LZOopkX94_ATne_sDY

More racism ...

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/blogs-trending-53239123?fbclid=IwAR2HyLvMOivURo5fN8JOTR4ldwnqJEPuvx6demu_AidRBsPGeBwwcWgylTc

Doubts cast over Sturgeon's claim that virus rate 'five times' lower in Scotland

From the Daily Telegraph - Nicola Sturgeon has been accused of attempting to mislead Scots after her government was reprimanded for making unverified claims about antibody tests. The UK Statistics Authority (UKSA) said it was “unacceptable” that her administration had said 4,431 antibody tests had been carried out in a press release, but offered no data to back up the statement. Monica Lennon, Scottish Labour's health spokeswoman, described the intervention as "embarrassing" and demanded an apology. Meanwhile, doubts were also cast on Friday over a separate claim, made repeatedly by Ms Sturgeon over the past week, that prevalence of the virus in Scotland is “five times” lower than in England. The First Minister has used the figure to justify her refusal to rule out imposing quarantine restrictions on people travelling to Scotland from other parts of the UK. The UKSA, an independent body which has a remit of challenging misleading use of statistics, is also examining this

Britain’s woke police forces have lost their way

Clipped from : https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2020/06/30/britains-woke-police-forces-have-lost-way/ In their desperation to be loved and not seen as racist, officers are failing to keep order in response to hooliganism and violence In the last few weeks, around 140 police officers have been injured in this country; 27 in just one night last week in Brixton. A day later, the force’s LGBT+ network could be found tweeting their support for asexual people. Perhaps the thugs who assaulted their colleagues in Brixton would have been mollified had they known how supportive the constabulary is of the asexuals in their midst? Or perhaps – and I simply put the possibility out there – such efforts by all branches of the British police do not in fact show how much the police have got with the beat, but just makes things harder for the policemen and women on the actual beat? When you cast your mind back across recent months what are your most distinctive memories of the British consta

Now our China illusion is ending, can the West revive its love of freedom?

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Clipped from : https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2020/07/10/now-china-illusion-ending-canthe-west-revive-love-freedom/ The CCP’s propaganda is wearing increasingly thin in Britain, but that will not solve our larger problems There they were on Thursday, the three Huawei senior executives in a Zoom-talk with MPs. Greg Clark, chairman of the Commons Science and Technology Committee, asked them whether , in their positions, they were free to express their views. “Very much so,” replied Jeremy Thompson, vice-chairman of Huawei UK , brightly. So what did he think of the new Hong Kong security law imposed by Beijing, asked Mr Clark, sweetly. Mr Thompson coloured slightly: “I don’t think [saying anything] would be consistent with my role with Huawei in this forum,” he answered. His two colleagues claimed the same freedom, but, like him, declined to exercise it. It was a comical encapsulation of the problem of British engagement with all organisations ultimately controlled by the