The star of Bridgerton’s new spin-off TV show has admitted she chose her TV shows growing up based on the race of the cast. India Amarteifio told Radio Times that she never watched period dramas because they only featured white people – even though she is half white and diversity is supposed to be all about people of different backgrounds coexisting. The Telegraph has more.
Mixed-race British actress India Amarteifio is set to play George III’s wife Queen Charlotte in a new Netflix series, a prequel to the international hit Bridgerton which will portray the royal consort as a woman of African descent.
While about to take on a role in a much-anticipated period piece, Amarteifio has revealed that she avoided watching costume dramas because of the limited racial representation on screen.
“I never used to watch period dramas,” she told Radio Times magazine, adding: “I’m half black and white. My family looks like lots of different people.
“I didn’t see myself represented so I didn’t ever feel a need to watch them.”
If Ms. Amarteifio instinctively avoided TV shows because of the race of the cast, perhaps she needs to submit herself to some unconscious bias training…
And isn’t inserting people of one heritage into the historical portrayal of another culture ‘cultural appropriation’ or something?
Double standards on race on full display once more. But then of course that’s the name of the game in the diversity industry, where the new social rules apply very differently depending on your position in the victimhood hierarchy. And don’t you dare complain, gammon!
Of course, if people want to make and watch period dramas with unrealistically diverse casts, they should be free to do so. And if others want to watch more accurate portrayals, likewise. But the creeping normalisation of anti-white racism and aversion to anything that fails to include enough token diversity, no matter how anachronistic or unnecessary, is hardly conducive to good race relations and social harmony.
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Russia presents unprecedented threat to world order, spy chiefs warn
‘Vladimir Putin‘s ‘sabre rattling’ very nearly saw the use of tactical nuclear weapons in Ukraine in late 2022, urging that there was still a ‘genuine risk’ to the Russian threat’
‘Russia’s intelligence services have conducted sabotage and criminal acts in Britain and in Europe, becoming ‘a lot more feral……The fact they are using a criminal element shows they are becoming a bit desperate – they can’t use their own people. They’re happy to use criminals. It’s just a bit more reckless.’
‘In April, an alleged arson attack was carried in Leyton, East London, on a Ukrainian-linked business, which was suspected of being directed by Moscow. Seven men have been charged in relation to the incident, with two under the new National Security Act.’
Britain’s batshit right:
‘I said I disliked (Putin) as a person, but I admired him as a political operator because he’s managed to take control of running Russia’
The batshit left, in the shape of Germany’s Sahra Wagenknecht Alliance, also support Putin. ‘The BSW want to copy from Putin….. ideas of how to keep society in check and under control — which is a tradition in Russia — and his way of implementing this through his authoritarian state model.’
Follow the money!
Reality:
‘Petraeus……..noting National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan’s recent remarks that US officials have warned the Moscow of “catastrophic consequences” if the Kremlin deploys nuclear weapons.
‘….we would respond by leading a NATO, a collective effort, that would take out every Russian conventional force that we can see and identify on the battlefield in Ukraine and also in Crimea and every ship in the Black Sea,” Petraeus replied.
Karl noted radiation from a nuclear attack in Ukraine would also likely reach nearby NATO countries, effectively making it an attack on the alliance.’
Why do you consider “spy chiefs” to be trustworthy sources on this matter?
Professional deceiver says….
Good point!
I was more coming from the angle that, like “public health experts” and “pandemics”, they have a vested interest in talking up threats. Obviously there are threats, but whatever they say publicly should be taken with a pinch of salt. Threats that require no talking up are mass immigration, net zero and wokeness (including the elevation of ignorance and stupidity) – we know those things will destroy our country.
Threats that have recently been acted on should be taken extremely seriously…..
Because Putin has invaded three separate countries, one of them twice, killed a British citizen on British soil, using a banned chemical agent in breach of the Chemical Weapons Convention, has recently conducted an arson attack in London….
I certainly wouldn’t like to be a country bordering Russia that was once part of their empire, that’s for sure. I don’t think they are coming for us though. They might get a bit more powerful globally, but I don’t think they will catch the Chinese. We’re destroying ourselves with little help from anyone else. Demographics is everything.
Policy cannot be focussed on a single agenda. One fault of the elites is their limited policy range.
for them everything is about woke andnet zero. You seem to think demographics is everything. It’s big, I agree but not everything.
Once people are here, they are here. They are not going anywhere. It’s irreversible. Everything else pretty much can be fixed.
Demographics are certainly everything to Putin.
‘And, if you believe the forecasts and the estimates are based on actual work, the real work of people who understand this, who have devoted their whole lives to this, in 15 years, there may be 22 million fewer Russians. I ask you to think about this figure: a seventh of the country’s population. If the current trend continues, the nation’s survival will be in jeopardy.’ Putin 2000
In 2006, Putin declared the need to address population decline as “the highest national priority”
That is why he has invaded Ukraine, in pursuit of a European superstate based on Russia comprising 250 million souls.
That is a threat to this country’s freedom of action in foreign policy and much else.
Idi Amin certainly didn’t subscribe to your logic tof. I see no reason why we can’t ship ’em out.
Where there’s a will there’s a way.
Indeed – but I cannot see that “will” ever emerging.
Nato presents unprecedented threat to world order…
Follow the money… Yep.. All the way to the Zelenskys palaces and Bugattis…
Dream on Monro… Dream on.. “Reality”… You wouldn’t be aware of it if it smacked you round your noggin
NATO cannot even put one formed armoured division in the field in Europe.
No credible conventional deterrent.
That is why we are where we are.
Many countries represent a threat to world order.
That cannot justify Russian aggression and the slaughter of hundreds of thousands.
To maintain otherwise is quite simply batty.
It has been used to justify US agression and interference around the world for over half a century. This was actual aggression as opposed to using proxies..
There is much confusion here.
Point one: Russia represents a threat to world order
Point two: The United States has intervened in various countries at various times.
These are two entirely separate points.
Occasionally, U.S. intervention has had U.N. support:
‘Resolution 678
Passed on November 29, 1990, this resolution gave Iraq until January 15, 1991 to withdraw from Kuwait. It also authorized UN member states to use “all necessary means” to force Iraq out of Kuwait after the deadline.’
America has presented an unprecedented threat to world order, with its lapdogs in NATO yapping at its heels.
https://watson.brown.edu/costsofwar/costs/human/civilians
The U.S. post-9/11 wars in Iraq, Afghanistan, Yemen, Syria, and Pakistan have taken a tremendous human toll on those countries. As of September 2021, an estimated 432,093 civilians in these countries have died violent deaths as a result of the wars. As of May 2023, an estimated 3.6-3.8 million people have died indirectly in post-9/11 war zones. The total death toll in these war zones could be at least 4.5-4.7 million and counting, though the precise mortality figure remains unknown. Civilian deaths have also resulted from U.S. post-9/11 military operations in Somalia and other countries.
https://watson.brown.edu/costsofwar/costs/human/civilians
Absolutely
Dotty….a complete muddle.
Point two above has nothing to do with point one, the original article referenced……..
“There is much confusion here.
Point one: Russia represents a threat to world order
Point two: The United States has intervened in various countries at various times.
These are two entirely separate points.”
“Russia represents a threat to world order”… Allegedly
Russia made it quite clear, re Nato on its borders, Russia was wholly provoked in to the Ukraine war.. (historically owned lands anyway)
America IS a threat to world order… Fact.
Point 1: The referenced article, using its own references, shows that Putin was very close to using nuclear weapons in 2022, a clear threat to the world.
You offer nothing to contradict that point. So the point stands.
Point 2: America is presently pretty much leaderless, has pulled out of Afghanistan. It is not threatening to use nuclear weapons. It quite clearly represents no threat to world order whatsoever. You offer nothing to support your assertion which, consequently, can be dismissed.
It couldn’t be more apparent that the police give these migrants protected status, plus this lunatic isn’t white so he automatically gets his ‘race card’ to fall back on. This woman was harassed and spat on when she was unlocking her bike, the nutter was also assaulting other people, but when the police turn up they warn the victim for saying ”filthy migrant”!
”I go to M&S CHELSEA & I’m attacked again on Kings Rd by another filthy migrant.
The police don’t turn up in time & when they do they are more interested in policing my speech…”
https://x.com/LadyLoveLDN/status/1833217018822119888
”This is who attacked me.
The police were more in lecturing me about my language than dealing with him.
He attacked me. He attacked others. A woman came up to me she works in a shop on kings road Chelsea & he has smashed her windows in.”
https://x.com/LadyLoveLDN/status/1833301570408133018
He obviously has form and is known in the area as others have responded to this lady’s post. So why isn’t HE locked up yet white people are banged up just for *words*. Perhaps the police need to wait until he stabs somebody before they arse themselves to do their jobs. In the meantime they’re more interested in policing people’s words, even though ”filthy migrant” seems a very accurate description to me and others.
”I live near here … the same guy has been running around with a knife … on Friday I was walking down the Kings Road with my young daughter and he punched a man walking past hard in the head … I saw him today … the police have done nothing despite numerous complaints.”
”This guy jumped in front of my car on Chelsea embankment 3 days ago screaming and shouting.”
”He may attack, rob and spit at you, but God forbid you describe him as a filthy migrant (even tho he’s both of those things).”
“Russia presents unprecedented threat to world order, spy chiefs warn”
If spies tell you something, it’s bound to be true.
So Russia, having invaded Chechnya 1999, Georgia 2008, Ukraine 2014, Ukraine 2022, having killed a British citizen on British soil with Novichok 2018 and now seven people charged with aggravated arson and offences under the National Security Act, including preparatory conduct and assisting a foreign intelligence service in August 2024, does not represent any kind of threat?
Do you agree with the following (batshit right) comment:
‘I said I disliked (Putin) as a person but I admired him as a political operator because he has managed to take control of running Russia.’
How does one have a discussion with someone who refuses to accept any nuance of any kind?
Precisely why negotiation with Putin is pointless.
Putin has been governing Russia and managed to stay in power for over 20 years and is quite popular in his own country.
Just that suggests to me he is more than capable of understanding and working with nuance.
You on the other hand, I have yet to see any hint of nuance in any of your daily Russia commentaries.
Totalitarian rule, the slaughter of hundreds of thousands, demonstrates an understanding of nuance?
Probably time to lay off the ‘loony soup’!
I look forward to an official enquiry into the Covid enquiry.
Toyota slashes EV output by 30% for 2026
This kind of headline is very misleading. It aims to give the impression that Toyota’s production of EVs is falling. It’s not. It’s increasing. By a lot in fact. What has been “reduced’ is the estimated year on year increase in production from a much much higher number to just a much higher number.
To be clear I’m not a champion of EV mandates. I hate them. They fill me with dread of what the state is capable of imposing on us.
But I don’t like to be bullshitted either.
https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/all-aboard-the-gravy-train-covid-criminals/
Paul Collits at TCW with a no holds barred rubbishing of the Australian politicians who all but burned their country but have since moved to different carriages on the gravy train.
We could write the same article inserting our crimes against humanity
Mob, the Whitty’s, van Tams, Johnson’s etc.
We are in one hell of a mess.
“In the Conversation, Yasmin Curzi de Mendonça argues that X’s legal battle with Brazil’s Supreme Court raises important questions about platform regulation and how to combat harmful disinformation while protecting free speech.”
Ah give over – yet another fake free speech advocate who say they believe in it but also want to “combat harmful disinformation”.
One man’s “harmful disinformation” is another man’s thousands of unnecessary vaccine deaths.
Yet another academic with a book to sell, entitled “Online Content Moderation: Context, Brazilian Scenario and its Regulatory Perspectives”
https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/the-golden-age-of-adverts/
This is a wonderful piece. Do read the comments, our memories are within.
Go to work on an egg.
Happiness is a cigar called Hamlet.
Cadbury”s gorilla advert.
The Hovis Hill – filmed by Ridley Scott.
Oh it’s brilliant. Happy days.
As the author writes – who on earth pays any attention to today’s advertising? Admirably echoed in the comments.
Another (expensive but will be a whitewash) government enquiry in the offing about dazzling car headlamps.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/money/cars/article-13829639/Government-conduct-independent-probe-root-cause-rise-drivers-dazzled-headlights.html?ico=mol_desktop_home
I can give them them the answer by close of play this afternoon, or by the end of the week if they want a spell checked proper report. The lighting industry won’t like the real answer though, so what’s the betting some industry funded team gets set up at vast expense?
Anyone want the information? MPs? I can probably save you a few million?
Government initiate a report in to car headlights.
We have far greater problems requiring taxpayer cash than crap like this.
FFS!
We do but… wasn’t this one of the BS reasons they thought might be causing an uptick in heart issues 4-5 months back? (when they were looking to test made up reasons in the public domain to see what stuck…)
A good find! Thanks for that interesting snippet.
“Surrogate mother wins access to her biological son in landmark case”
What is buying and selling a human being called? SLAVERY.
Children like these are being SOLD by the surrogates before they are even born, and BOUGHT by the “contractors”.
ALL OF THEM SHOULD BE ARRESTED FOR CHILD TRAFFICKING AND ENSLAVEMENT.
“Rave in the nave! Cathedral slammed over £39-a-ticket concert”
All part of the Vatican plot to corrupt and destroy the Protestant Church of England from within, so the Vatican can claim all the Anglican church property.
“Elon Musk’s feud with Brazilian judge is much more than a personal spat − it’s about national sovereignty, freedom of speech and the rule of law” – Yasmin Curzi … raises important questions… on how to combat harmful DISINFORMATION”
No one needs to “Combat Harmful Disinformation”!!!
This Arabic/Hebrew woman is just another Communist Supporter of Evil Communist Imposter Lula and his Pet Judge.
“Disinformation” is a very recent word originating in Communist Russia, and should be thrown out of English conversation altogether.
“Bolsonaro leads massive free speech protest in Brazil after Supreme Court bans X”
Jair Bolsonaro is the True Leader of Brazil.