"But with the latest revelations, it seems the industry is being forced to reckon with ideas of sexual harassment, violence against women, and the wider #MeToo movement – which began to spread virally in 2017 as a response to allegations against Harvey Weinstein." 🍿
Y'all know that when they start to talk about #MeToo they're covering for something else, right?
"Schofield announced last week that he was stepping down from the broadcaster after admitting an affair with a much younger male colleague .. a relationship he described as “unwise, but not illegal” in an apology statement to the Daily Mail"
"“These two stories are potentially the start of a much wider conversation about sexual misconduct in British media,” McLean said. “It’s one that we haven’t really seen take place on the same scale as it has in America.” She added: “This will rumble on – it’s far from over.”"
The Telegraph :
" Alex Jones was, to many, a figure of fun with an amusing predilection for tearing the shirt from his own back when riled up. But Jones crossed a line when he said that the 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting .. was a hoax."🤔
"Jones was sued by some of the families, and members of the emergency services, for defamation and, in 2022, was ordered to pay $1.5bn (£1.3bn) in damages." archive.is/6icGH
"To settle his debt, Infowars was put up for sale... in November 2024, Global Tetrahedron ,the parent company of satirical outlet The Onion, emerged as the winning bidder for the conspiracy outlet at bankruptcy auction."
It was formed in 2024 by former Twilio CEO Jeff Lawson 🤔
GG : "Parishes like HTB historically funneled unmarried pregnant women out of their local wealthy London neighborhoods and into these hidden regional church-run homes to avoid community gossip and preserve "respectability""🤔
"The planned site for "No 10 North"—the upcoming Manchester Digital Campus on Great Ancoats Street —is directly integrated into Manchester's active travel and public transit networks .." 🎶
While all of the schemes can be used by students from black, Asian, and minority ethnic (BAME) backgrounds, they almost entirely exclude white working-class students, who are one of the most under-represented groups in higher education."..
The universities have been accused of having a “two-tier academic society” after an inquiry report published on Monday found that white working-class children were some of the most disadvantaged and underachieving in English schools."..
GG : "The mentor-student relationship between Laski and Miliband represents one of the most famous intellectual lineages in British political science, while The New School served as a crucial bridge for their ideas in the United States . ..