"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.”"
GG : "the Huxley family was deeply involved with the United Nations. Aldous Huxley’s brother, Julian Huxley, was one of the most influential figures in the early history of the UN, serving as the very first Director-General of UNESCO from 1946 to 1948. ..
While Julian Huxley was busy at the United Nations offices in Geneva shaping post-war internationalism, Aldous Huxley’s relationship with the French language and culture remained highly personal, deeply literary, and central to how he viewed the world."..
GG : "The UK Coalition Government changed the law in September 2011 to restrict private arrest warrants, a move explicitly designed to prevent the arrest of visiting Israeli officials. 🤔
The Tzipi Livni Warrant: In December 2009, a London magistrate issued an arrest warrant for former Israeli Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni over alleged war crimes during the 2008–2009 Gaza war. Livni cancelled her trip to the UK to avoid arrest .."
Years earlier, Doron Almog narrowly escaped arrest at Heathrow Airport by refusing to step off his plane after learning a British magistrate had issued a private warrant against him. Following these events, the Israeli government heavily pressured the UK to change its laws."..
Some of Cambridge’s most brilliant mathematical minds were tangled up with the Cambridge University Science Fiction (and Fantasy) Society (CUSFS), and they birthed one of the most legendary, bizarre "gaming clubs" in history.
Rowan Pelling :
" Count Binface is the best of British. Unfortunately for Furious Farage, our country will never trust ‘establishment’ politicians who can’t laugh at themselves"🤔 archive.is/RnGvJ
It’s as if Newsnight were scripted by Monty Python. Long-term prankster and electoral underdog Count Binface stands for the exasperated voter, while five-property-owning, career politician Farage looks increasingly like the establishment."
"Powered by US money and far-right European think tanks, Cambridge has recently become an outpost of a peculiar blend of national conservatism and apocalyptic Christianity, through the figure of James Orr – Head of Policy at Reform UK described as Nigel Farage’s “Kingmaker“."
Byline Times can now reveal that with the behind-the-scenes support of Peter Thiel — Trump backer and co-founder of Palantir Technologies — Orr has used Cambridge University as a recruitment ground to bring students into a hard-right, theocratic political project ..