After feeling a huge tug on his line, English angler John Goldfinch fought long and hard to reel in a very rare catch—a scuba diver. The hapless diver, hooked through the crotch of his suit, surfaced some 50 feet offshore. “His girlfriend then surfaced, helped him remove my tackle…
Continue reading …Once she was a jailhouse nurse; now she’s known simply as the “Bad Hair Bandit.” Alongside her husband, Cynthia Van Holland is being held for allegedly robbing 20 banks while wearing chintzy wigs. After she was caught this week in northern California, authorities want to make sure she sticks around—…
Continue reading …President Obama likes to blame two things for the economic mess we’re in, writes Charles Krauthammer in the Washington Post : bad luck and Republicans. Each is preposterous, Krauthammer adds. Yes, we’ve seen troubles with Japan, Europe, the Arab Spring, and on and on, but Obama is supposed to be a…
Continue reading …Burger King is planning a radical change in its advertising strategy that will end the surprisingly long reign of its creepy King mascot. The fast food chain is jumping on the trend of touting how fresh its food is—its latest campaign, launching this weekend, advertises its new guacamole-topped “California…
Continue reading …Three men in Arkansas imprisoned 18 years for murders they insist they didn’t commit struck a deal with prosecutors today and will walk out of jail, reports the Commercial Appeal . The West Memphis Three—Damien Echols, 36, Jason Baldwin, 34, and Jessie Misskelley, 36—actually pleaded guilty to the killings…
Continue reading …Christine O’Donnell didn’t walk out of her interview with Piers Morgan because he asked about gay marriage, she said this morning on the Today show. Instead, “it was the very inappropriate, creepy line of questioning leading up to that,” she noted. “I wanted to stop that borderline sexual harassment that…
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Historian says he wasn’t condemning black culture, adding that black educationalists defended his comments The historian David Starkey has defended comments he made last week on BBC’s Newsnight – when he appeared to blame the recent riots in English cities on a black “gangsta” culture – by claiming that “the subject of race has become unmentionable, by whites at any rate”. In an article in the Daily Telegraph , he describes the public reaction to his remarks as “hysterical”, and says that a breach in what he calls the taboo on discussing race is “punished by ostracism and worse … the witch finders already have their sights on me”. The article comes after a furore provoked by comments made by him during a discussion on BBC’s Newsnight, during which he said that “the whites have become black”. In his Telegraph article Starkey writes: “But how, then, to explain the black educationalists Tony Sewell and Katherine Birbalsingh defending the substance of my comments on ‘gangsta’ culture, as well as Tony Parsons, who wrote in the Labour-supporting Daily Mirror that, ‘without the gang culture of black London, none of the riots would have happened – including the riots in other cities like Manchester and Birmingham where most of rioters were white’.” Admitting that friends agreed his greatest error was mentioning the politician Enoch Powell , whose 1968 rivers of blood speech attacked immigration , Starkey added that part of the legacy of the reaction to Powell had been “an enforced silence on the matter of race”. Starkey defends comments he made on Newsnight that white “chavs” have “become black”, by arguing that discussion of the successes or failures of integration in Britain is central to any examination of the state of the nation today. Saying that he was misconstrued as condemning all black culture, the historian writes: “I was trying to point out the very different patterns of integration at the top and bottom of the social scale.” David Starkey Race issues UK riots London Daily Telegraph Equality National newspapers Newspapers Hannah Godfrey guardian.co.uk
Continue reading …Historian says he wasn’t condemning black culture, adding that black educationalists defended his comments The historian David Starkey has defended comments he made last week on BBC’s Newsnight – when he appeared to blame the recent riots in English cities on a black “gangsta” culture – by claiming that “the subject of race has become unmentionable, by whites at any rate”. In an article in the Daily Telegraph , he describes the public reaction to his remarks as “hysterical”, and says that a breach in what he calls the taboo on discussing race is “punished by ostracism and worse … the witch finders already have their sights on me”. The article comes after a furore provoked by comments made by him during a discussion on BBC’s Newsnight, during which he said that “the whites have become black”. In his Telegraph article Starkey writes: “But how, then, to explain the black educationalists Tony Sewell and Katherine Birbalsingh defending the substance of my comments on ‘gangsta’ culture, as well as Tony Parsons, who wrote in the Labour-supporting Daily Mirror that, ‘without the gang culture of black London, none of the riots would have happened – including the riots in other cities like Manchester and Birmingham where most of rioters were white’.” Admitting that friends agreed his greatest error was mentioning the politician Enoch Powell , whose 1968 rivers of blood speech attacked immigration , Starkey added that part of the legacy of the reaction to Powell had been “an enforced silence on the matter of race”. Starkey defends comments he made on Newsnight that white “chavs” have “become black”, by arguing that discussion of the successes or failures of integration in Britain is central to any examination of the state of the nation today. Saying that he was misconstrued as condemning all black culture, the historian writes: “I was trying to point out the very different patterns of integration at the top and bottom of the social scale.” David Starkey Race issues UK riots London Daily Telegraph Equality National newspapers Newspapers Hannah Godfrey guardian.co.uk
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Historian says he wasn’t condemning black culture, adding that black educationalists defended his comments The historian David Starkey has defended comments he made last week on BBC’s Newsnight – when he appeared to blame the recent riots in English cities on a black “gangsta” culture – by claiming that “the subject of race has become unmentionable, by whites at any rate”. In an article in the Daily Telegraph , he describes the public reaction to his remarks as “hysterical”, and says that a breach in what he calls the taboo on discussing race is “punished by ostracism and worse … the witch finders already have their sights on me”. The article comes after a furore provoked by comments made by him during a discussion on BBC’s Newsnight, during which he said that “the whites have become black”. In his Telegraph article Starkey writes: “But how, then, to explain the black educationalists Tony Sewell and Katherine Birbalsingh defending the substance of my comments on ‘gangsta’ culture, as well as Tony Parsons, who wrote in the Labour-supporting Daily Mirror that, ‘without the gang culture of black London, none of the riots would have happened – including the riots in other cities like Manchester and Birmingham where most of rioters were white’.” Admitting that friends agreed his greatest error was mentioning the politician Enoch Powell , whose 1968 rivers of blood speech attacked immigration , Starkey added that part of the legacy of the reaction to Powell had been “an enforced silence on the matter of race”. Starkey defends comments he made on Newsnight that white “chavs” have “become black”, by arguing that discussion of the successes or failures of integration in Britain is central to any examination of the state of the nation today. Saying that he was misconstrued as condemning all black culture, the historian writes: “I was trying to point out the very different patterns of integration at the top and bottom of the social scale.” David Starkey Race issues UK riots London Daily Telegraph Equality National newspapers Newspapers Hannah Godfrey guardian.co.uk
Continue reading …Historian says he wasn’t condemning black culture, adding that black educationalists defended his comments The historian David Starkey has defended comments he made last week on BBC’s Newsnight – when he appeared to blame the recent riots in English cities on a black “gangsta” culture – by claiming that “the subject of race has become unmentionable, by whites at any rate”. In an article in the Daily Telegraph , he describes the public reaction to his remarks as “hysterical”, and says that a breach in what he calls the taboo on discussing race is “punished by ostracism and worse … the witch finders already have their sights on me”. The article comes after a furore provoked by comments made by him during a discussion on BBC’s Newsnight, during which he said that “the whites have become black”. In his Telegraph article Starkey writes: “But how, then, to explain the black educationalists Tony Sewell and Katherine Birbalsingh defending the substance of my comments on ‘gangsta’ culture, as well as Tony Parsons, who wrote in the Labour-supporting Daily Mirror that, ‘without the gang culture of black London, none of the riots would have happened – including the riots in other cities like Manchester and Birmingham where most of rioters were white’.” Admitting that friends agreed his greatest error was mentioning the politician Enoch Powell , whose 1968 rivers of blood speech attacked immigration , Starkey added that part of the legacy of the reaction to Powell had been “an enforced silence on the matter of race”. Starkey defends comments he made on Newsnight that white “chavs” have “become black”, by arguing that discussion of the successes or failures of integration in Britain is central to any examination of the state of the nation today. Saying that he was misconstrued as condemning all black culture, the historian writes: “I was trying to point out the very different patterns of integration at the top and bottom of the social scale.” David Starkey Race issues UK riots London Daily Telegraph Equality National newspapers Newspapers Hannah Godfrey guardian.co.uk
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