Voice of the Tyne Blog

Jimmy Savile is obviously guilty of whatever and so is the entire management of the BBC, even though I have no evidence whatsoever to prove that statement and despite the fact that no investigation has yet taken place. I hate him and all he stands for, even though I never actually met him. He must be evil because hundreds of people are saying so. And because hundreds even thousands may have been abused by him. All they seek is a cure for their blighted childhoods by seeking large amounts of money as compensation. Money cures everything the lawyer said.

The BBC is full of long haired layabouts called musicians who like sex, drugs and rock and roll and having a good time. How dare they drink alcohol while at work. They should be replaced by Ms Prim and Mr Bland and his many followers who currently run BBC4, BBC News and other instantly safe programmes and who help me switch off and get a good night's sleep.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/tvandradio/bbc/9615119/Its-not-a-crisis-at-the-BBC.-Not-yet-anyway.html

Barry Thew was jailed for 8 months under section 4a of the Public Order Act 1986 http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1986/64– “displaying writing or other visible representation with intention of causing harassment, alarm or distress”. Basically jailed for being an idiot.

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The British mind is a dirty mess when it comes to sexual matters and it seems it always has been.

JImmy Saville was born in 1926 so his attitudes were like Leslie Philips as he was in his films. 40 years ago when Jimmy Saville was supposed to be doing whatever he was doing attitudes were very different to now, much more robust and paradoxically more tolerant. We are talking about the 60s and 70s when people first had sex: Sexual intercourse began In nineteen sixty-three (Larkin).

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I watched Citizen Khan and found it funny enough - even if I'd heard some of the jokes before. It's just a standard British sitcom. Thank god the writer is Adil Ray half Pakistan and half Kenyan. Otherwise the racist accusations would be even louder. If he was Jewish and the programme about Jews he would probably still be accused of being antisemitic. I bet the French hated Allo Allo. I think Germans liked it. Some communities take themselves too seriously.

It's a long standing British tradition to send up all and sundry. It's British and tough luck if you don't like it. Comedy like Citizen Khan actually humanises Pakistanis who generally get a bad press.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2196104/Citizen-Khan-does-stereotype-Muslims-says-shows-creator.html

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/china/9463577/Neil-Heywood-trial-secret-trial-of-Bo-Xilais-wife-ends-on-first-day-without-verdict.html

Chinese justice is swift. One day to prove guilt. One hour would have done just as well. This was a secret trial with secret evidence. We have to believe that the Communist Party of China can be trusted. But the people and the world cannot be trusted. Justice has to be in public and open to scrutiny to be justice. All we see is a sinister state control that will silence anyone who might really say what is rather than what the faceless They want to make people think is true. Truth is a lie, a lie is the truth in Communist China.

The company may lose £50m from the £284m contract because it cannot supply enough security guards. Oh what a shame. They will still get almost a quarter of a billion of our money. Yet another example of a private company NOT doing better than the State. And the reward for the managers for that failure to provide will still be £57m. If Britain was run by the Mafia you wouldn't notice the difference.

The population of England and Wales has reached 56.1 million, up by 3.7 million in a decade, the 2011 Census shows.

It is the largest growth shown by any census since they began in 1801. Most of the population growth was due to immigration.

Estimated net migration to England and Wales between year ending June 2002 and year ending June 2011 was 1.9 million. Census results suggest that this is an under-estimate of 267,000.

There are over 400,000 more under-fives compared with 2001, partly reflecting a rise in the number of women of child-bearing age because of inward migration, the ONS said.

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