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20 October 2020bbc, media bias, TIM DAVIES,Is the BBC changing? Is it going through a bit of a pivot not in a showy way. Is it one’s imagination or are Maitlis, Robinson, Carney & Company becoming a bit more respectful in their treatment of Tory politicians? And tougher on Labour? Cynics suggest that this might have something to do with the arrival of a new man at the top. But what do YOU think?
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DateRACISM, HUMOURWhat i am about to say will bring about some purse-lipped indignation from the humourless pc prissies, the wokies and victim junkies but people often get racism wrong. All too often racism is just that but sometimes what is received as a racial insult is actually nothing more than an expression of A hilarious pleasure of utter rudeness, verbal vandalism. as when football fans, arms spread in Spitfire impersonation singing the damn busters theme, or referring to the Middlesbrough players as child abusers (when their city was the scene of a major sex crime investigation. Likewise Irish jokes. The irish and polish victims are seldom a target but they are rather collateral damage . The joke . This is not to excuse the behaviour but merely to help explain it. Obscene insults aimed at tribal rivals.
business 21 July 2020CITY, golDman sachs, criminality, malaysia, corruption‘Was Goldman Sachs an innocent abroad ensnared by wily Orientals?’
Spare a thought for the tragedy that has befallen one of our great banks, writes our City Editor Michael Pershore.
somehow ‘untouchable’. Media commentators who say it is a story of little public interest, I beg to differ. We should care because Goldman Sachs is no longer a mere investment bank it has become a retail bank in the form of Marcus, a self-proclaimed sentinel of small savers’ money. Given this fiasco some are asking if this accident prone bank (it has a certain amount of ‘previous’ including another unfortunate episode at the end of last years in which it was at the centre of a string of insider trading charges), ‘Is Goldmans a safe pair of hands?’ Nor is the affair entirely over given, a string of pending criminal charges which could result in MORE
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We are proud to report that Mr Aram Manukian, proprietor of The Second Post, is setting up a special fund to alleviate the distress, financial hardship and mental health issues that may arise within Goldman Sachs following the bank’s appalling run of bad luck. Goldman Sachs has had to hand over almost $4 billion to the Malaysian government after unwittingly becoming entangled in a massive fraud in which billions were stolen from its coffer.
To make matters worse Corona Virus has deprived the bank of the publicity which might have shed some light on its plight and aroused some sympathy around the globe. Apart from some brief reporting there has been little coverage in depth – seemingly no major television or radio in-depth analysis in the UK where the public at large have been left ignorant about its troubles. Goldman have every right to complain about its treatment by the media which has behaved as though the bank is 
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Former soldier, diplomat, politician and Vice Chancellor of Durham College Oxford died last Friday. The man who among many other things advocated a continuing occupation of Iraq, campaigned for the release of Islamic terrorist ‘Jimmy’ Mamza and promoted the Riga Treaty Force Reduction Agreement. Once asked what with hindsight he would do differently, he answered without hesitation: ‘I’d have had all the electrical sockets in our house installed 4ft above floor instead of down by the skirting board.’
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