A film about a Belfast rap group, replete with anti-British themes and nods to Irish republicanism, has taken the gong for Best British Debut at the Baftas. The Telegraphhas the details.
The Irish-language film Kneecap, by director and writer Rich Peppiatt, is based on a semi-fictionalised account of how the Belfast rap group of the same name was formed.
The outspoken band, made up of Liam Óg Ó hAnnaidh, Naoise Ó Caireallain and JJ Ó Dochartaigh from West Belfast, is known for its provocative lyrics and merchandise in support of Irish republicanism.
During Sunday’s awards ceremony, the breakout movie was nominated in six categories – including best British film, best editing, best film not in the English language, best original screenplay, best casting and best debut for a British writer, director or producer.
After Peppiatt won the best debut, he took to the stage and said Kneecap was a “movement” and that “everyone should have their language respected and their culture respected”.
The trio’s name is derived from so-called kneecapping – where young people are shot in the legs by paramilitaries in republican and loyalist communities in Northern Ireland, because of allegedly being involved in crime or antisocial behaviour.
The film includes a joke that compares the Brighton bombing to a sex act.
Nigel Farage, leader of Reform, told the Telegraph: “This is an insult of the worst kind to all the good people of the RUC and British Army who were murdered by the IRA.” …
JJ Ó Dochartaigh, whose stage name is DJ Próvaí, attended the awards wearing his signature balaclava in the colours of the Irish tricolour.
The official Kneecap X page posted ahead of the awards ceremony on Sunday said: “We’re at the Baftas later – hopefully we steal a few to take back to Ireland.
“Don’t forget the British Government still occupy Ireland and they’re flying spy missions over Gaza as we speak to help Zionist fanatics bomb kids.
‘Free Palestine. Free the Six Counties.’”
In November 2024, the group won a discrimination case over a decision by Kemi Badenoch, now Conservative leader, to refuse them arts funding.
The trio had launched legal action claiming the decision to deny them a £14,250 grant discriminated against them on grounds of nationality and political opinion.
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There are absolutely people who claim to be persons despite they aren’t. For instance, men who believe that wearing a dress combined with high heels and a neckbeard would be some sort of special identity (which can conveniently be changed to anything else at a moments notice). In reality, this is just maximized idiocy of the consumer society where people self-identify as functional appendixes of their attire.
I can’t imagine that the above illustrations were pixelated when being viewed by children, so why are they pixelated for this article? Seems a bit precious to me.
It’s important that parents push back against this woke nonsense, the days when we could trust our schools to do the right thing are sadly in the past. But pushback does work.
Dental dam? I had to look that up. I’m 66 and I think that the best way of avoiding nasty diseases is to pick your partners more carefully and spend a decent time getting to know if their standards are the same as yours.
When did this sort of discussion come within the purview of the Education Authority?and isn’t it time parents took it back?
Seems to me if enough of them said no, it would be stopped in it’s tracks…
The outcry should targert Relationship and Sex Education as something that’s part of a curriculum. Practially all humans have relationships involving sex but this is considered something that’s private and not public. Hence, the state has absolutely no business messing with it.
Conspicuously absent from all of this seems to be any mention of the actual biological purpose of sex or anatomy.
Beyond all the post-Marxist societal deconstruction, groomy vibes and so on, there’s something parasitical about it I find it hard to put into words.
This ideological movement seems irresistibly drawn to children. The only explanation I can think of as to why (other than opportunity for indoctrination) is that it is being driven by a group of narcissistic adults who have failed to overcome important stages of development themselves, and so see children as no more than an extension of their own needs.
Amongst these is a desire for self-infantilisation: to be coddled, indulge in permanent ‘play’, oversimplify the external world into black-and-white triviality, fall back on emotional impulsivity to control relationships with others, to swing between unregulated states of mindless conformity and performative rebellion against imagined authority, and probably most importantly, to normalise the childlike concept of moral equivalence that lies at the core of intersectionality (“this thing is unfair so I deserve special treatment on the basis of who I am or who I claim to represent”). All of this is a way of living in fantasy, and divorcing from a challenging and sometimes ugly, unfair reality.
For them, forcing adult ideas of sexuality and identitarian ideology onto children – making them complicit ideological objects in their adult ‘play’ – seems to be a psychological way of closing the gap between adult and child, making the fantasy world they need to inhabit a bit more real.
Motivations really don’t matter. Random adult strangers who happen to work for the state shouldn’t be holding lengthy talks about sexual technicalities to prepubescent children and the state has no business trying to regulate (in detail!) aspects of the intimate lifes of its future citizens. That incorrigible busybodies are among the least dubious characters this ‘profession’ attracts is a side aspect.
Incorrigible busybodies are the ones enthusiastically holding the door open for the most dubious characters, and given that this seems part of an ideological march, I’d argue that it’s extremely important to understand their motivations (whether my speculative assessment is correct or way off the mark).
The part of the state apparently trying to interfere in the intimate lives of its future citizens is acting way outside of its remit. Unless any government minister has approved of smuggling cultural Marxism into the curriculum behind closed doors, the State is running a parallel programme rooted in far-left ideology, and doing its best to normalise it. This ideology has a religious appeal to the sections of the state pushing it that overrides any sense of ethics or official responsibility, and hides itself under a cloak of compassion and tolerance to protect itself from scrutiny.
By the time this government is replaced, it will have bedded in and become another step towards implementation of a social order very few people have voted for or want. A future left wing government will likely consider its victory a sign of popular approval of this ideology and accelerate its implementation, if only to appease a fringe which has already shown a capacity for calculated agitation.
For anyone with concerns about its potential to vastly increase opportunities for child abuse, this ideology should be the enemy, and to fight it effectively, they need to know it and understand its appeal.
We are fast approaching “The fall of Rome” levels of depravity.
Hound of Heaven
1 year ago
I would have expected the commentators here to be familiar with A Huxley’s Brave New World. This is exactly what happens in it and Huxley explains why. The only pornography in Brave New World is natural birth, monogamy – and love, of course.
JohnnyDollar
1 year ago
Which government ministers & MPs advocated & supported the launch of this school porn to our chicken ?? Who approved this in the government ? Who is responsible??
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“The rights of trans people”
There is no such thing as a trans person
There are absolutely people who claim to be persons despite they aren’t. For instance, men who believe that wearing a dress combined with high heels and a neckbeard would be some sort of special identity (which can conveniently be changed to anything else at a moments notice). In reality, this is just maximized idiocy of the consumer society where people self-identify as functional appendixes of their attire.
Indeed
I’m happy about the term “transvestite” but I don’t recognise the concept of “trans gender”.
I can’t imagine that the above illustrations were pixelated when being viewed by children, so why are they pixelated for this article? Seems a bit precious to me.
It’s important that parents push back against this woke nonsense, the days when we could trust our schools to do the right thing are sadly in the past. But pushback does work.
The legalisation of PAEDOPHILIA is the aim.. nothing less. Destroy it or lose our children to the outright perverts running this evil..
I wonder when simulation training will be introduced before moving on to “Escape your virginity” classes.
Oh I’ve no doubt they’ve already got that planned and ready to go..
Dental dam? I had to look that up. I’m 66 and I think that the best way of avoiding nasty diseases is to pick your partners more carefully and spend a decent time getting to know if their standards are the same as yours.
When did this sort of discussion come within the purview of the Education Authority?and isn’t it time parents took it back?
Seems to me if enough of them said no, it would be stopped in it’s tracks…
The outcry should targert Relationship and Sex Education as something that’s part of a curriculum. Practially all humans have relationships involving sex but this is considered something that’s private and not public. Hence, the state has absolutely no business messing with it.
This is State-sanctioned grooming.
Like how the pictures on here for adults are blurred out! But they’re perfectly happy to show them to kids?! Ffs, peido’s!
Ooh, the downticker agrees with peido’s?
Conspicuously absent from all of this seems to be any mention of the actual biological purpose of sex or anatomy.
Beyond all the post-Marxist societal deconstruction, groomy vibes and so on, there’s something parasitical about it I find it hard to put into words.
This ideological movement seems irresistibly drawn to children. The only explanation I can think of as to why (other than opportunity for indoctrination) is that it is being driven by a group of narcissistic adults who have failed to overcome important stages of development themselves, and so see children as no more than an extension of their own needs.
Amongst these is a desire for self-infantilisation: to be coddled, indulge in permanent ‘play’, oversimplify the external world into black-and-white triviality, fall back on emotional impulsivity to control relationships with others, to swing between unregulated states of mindless conformity and performative rebellion against imagined authority, and probably most importantly, to normalise the childlike concept of moral equivalence that lies at the core of intersectionality (“this thing is unfair so I deserve special treatment on the basis of who I am or who I claim to represent”). All of this is a way of living in fantasy, and divorcing from a challenging and sometimes ugly, unfair reality.
For them, forcing adult ideas of sexuality and identitarian ideology onto children – making them complicit ideological objects in their adult ‘play’ – seems to be a psychological way of closing the gap between adult and child, making the fantasy world they need to inhabit a bit more real.
Motivations really don’t matter. Random adult strangers who happen to work for the state shouldn’t be holding lengthy talks about sexual technicalities to prepubescent children and the state has no business trying to regulate (in detail!) aspects of the intimate lifes of its future citizens. That incorrigible busybodies are among the least dubious characters this ‘profession’ attracts is a side aspect.
Incorrigible busybodies are the ones enthusiastically holding the door open for the most dubious characters, and given that this seems part of an ideological march, I’d argue that it’s extremely important to understand their motivations (whether my speculative assessment is correct or way off the mark).
The part of the state apparently trying to interfere in the intimate lives of its future citizens is acting way outside of its remit. Unless any government minister has approved of smuggling cultural Marxism into the curriculum behind closed doors, the State is running a parallel programme rooted in far-left ideology, and doing its best to normalise it. This ideology has a religious appeal to the sections of the state pushing it that overrides any sense of ethics or official responsibility, and hides itself under a cloak of compassion and tolerance to protect itself from scrutiny.
By the time this government is replaced, it will have bedded in and become another step towards implementation of a social order very few people have voted for or want. A future left wing government will likely consider its victory a sign of popular approval of this ideology and accelerate its implementation, if only to appease a fringe which has already shown a capacity for calculated agitation.
For anyone with concerns about its potential to vastly increase opportunities for child abuse, this ideology should be the enemy, and to fight it effectively, they need to know it and understand its appeal.
Also missing from the descriptions of sex is love!
Absolutely.
I’ve just found out what a dental dam is!
And they are teaching this to children??
Debauchery and depravity, they should be locked up!
We are fast approaching “The fall of Rome” levels of depravity.
I would have expected the commentators here to be familiar with A Huxley’s Brave New World. This is exactly what happens in it and Huxley explains why. The only pornography in Brave New World is natural birth, monogamy – and love, of course.
Which government ministers & MPs advocated & supported the launch of this school porn to our chicken ?? Who approved this in the government ? Who is responsible??