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spindrift
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The Sun has been at the centre of stigmatising and public opinion changing stories for decades, remember what they did to poor Frank Bruno?
It must be a culture thing there, many different editors same made up shit.
Fucking journalists reporting 'fact' my arse, but is there anything that can be done, are there ever any consequences for the real damage they do? -
Shane Sutton suspended by British Cycling (is this old?):
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No, it's pretty much happened overnight. Justified though, multiple substantial allegations of multiple types of discrimination that merit investigation.
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Always worth a repost:
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In other news...
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Sutton has resigned. Still denying claims though.
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The excellent speech by Andy Burnham is worth watching in full:
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Good news here: http://www.standard.co.uk/news/london/paralympians-stolen-5000-handbike-found-after-huge-social-media-campaign-a3235181.html
In typical Evening Standard fashion, they don't appear to have asked anyone from Cash Converters for a quote or explanation of their business practices. Nice 'reporting'.
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How could Corbyn have handled this anti-Semitism issue any worse? Labour MP makes vile anti-Semitic comments in 2014, gives weak apology, Corbyn says 'yeah don't worry about it - of course you can keep your job'. It takes a pasting from Cameron in PMQs on the issue for him/Labour to volte-face and suspend her. Why is he so unwilling to take any action? Clearly a huge problem in the party recognised by prominent Labour peers and Jewish leaders and yet it is only when over a barrel that Corbyn actually does anything.
Other points to note are that the statement on her suspension read that Corbyn agreed that she had been suspended by the general secretary. Why not Corbyn? Why not immediately as McDonnell had promised only a few weeks earlier in the cases where anti-Semitic behavior was uncovered? Comments from Labour like "We're saying she made remarks that she doesn't agree with" are just meaningless and pathetic, and clearly despite Labour's protestations Shah's earlier draft of her apology had been heavily edited to remove any references to the anti-Semitic, racist problem within the Party.
It's no wonder the Tories are laughing, they are in disarray over Europe, the NHS and other issues, yet it doesn't matter. Corbyn is so ineffectual it feels as if there is no Opposition at all.
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Perhaps I'm being naive but I really don't understand what was 'anti-Semitic' about her comments (move Israel to inside the USA, etc).
Inane, facetious, flippant, stupid, maybe but not "prejudice against, hatred of, or discrimination against Jews as an ethnic, religious, or racial group". -
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-36159117
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Drone unlikely to have hit BA plane near Heathrow, government says
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Transport Secretary Patrick McLoughlin told MPs the incident was no longer thought to have involved a drone.A police investigation was launched after the pilot of a BA flight from Geneva on 17 April reported an object had struck the front of the aircraft.
It was thought to be the first drone collision with an aircraft in the UK.
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"But it all gets self-referential later on in the article:-
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Drone incidents at UK airports
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17 April 2016 - A British Airways plane approaching Heathrow is believed to have hit a drone while in midair
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If you've read the comments in full then I'd say you were being naive. She refers to Jews as a problem and likens Israeli policies to those of Hitler. The tone is very clear and these comments weren't made a decade ago when she was young and immature - it was 2014. I agree people have said a lot worse, but Labour were very clear that there was a zero tolerance policy being imposed. Corbyn then does nothing and Shah is subsequently suspended by the General Secretary. It's shambolic at best.
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suspended by the General Secretary.
Isn't that the General Secretary's, and not Corbyn's, job though?
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Jews as a problem
Sounds pretty antisemitic.
likens Israeli policies to those of Hitler
Not antisemitic.
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That's probably the issue then, everywhere is just reporting them as 'anti-semitic comments' and not actually putting them in full so we can make our own minds up.
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More Facebook posts by Shah emerge. She wrote the caption
#ApartheidIsrael on a picture that appeared to compare the state to the Nazis. It was above a picture of Dr Martin Luther King holding the
quote: “We should never forget that everything Adolf Hitler did in
Germany was ‘legal’.”Bit daft. Not really anti-semitic.
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