News Round-Up
7 May 2024
The BBC has deliberately destroyed the great British sitcom, says Steven Tucker. Making the unwashed masses laugh is no longer PC and comedy must be given a 'higher purpose'. No wonder nobody is watching anymore.
The billion-pound slavery atonement proposed by the Church of England is slammed by Daniel Hannan in the Telegraph, as yet another instance of British national self-loathing and Americanised symbolic virtue-signalling.
A new "racial justice unit" is being established by the Church of England to combat racism, including a £36,000-a-year position for a "deconstructing whiteness" officer.
Guy de la Bédoyère wonders at the BBC's tremendously popular The Black and White Minstrel Show, that was still being staged as late as 1989, but about which the corporation is now unsurprisingly ashamed.
A recent survey asked Americans how many unarmed black men were killed by police in 2021. 28% of "very liberal" respondents said "about 1,000" and another 10% said "about 10,000" or greater. The correct answer is 11.
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