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Why The BNP Should Be On Question Time
14th September 2009 | 2 comments | 0 votes yet, click here to agree or disagree
I can understand the opposition and anger against the proposal of any BNP member appearing on the BBC's Question Time programme. Politicians have already said that they will not appear beside a BNP panellist for it may be seen as validating the BNP as a normal political party or giving them a platform of respectability. Some commentators are aghast at the idea of a BNP member debating politics on the...
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Are Newsreaders Paid Too Much?
3rd September 2009 | 2 comments | 0 votes yet, click here to agree or disagree
I was once invited into the Sky News studio to give my thoughts on teenage crime. As I waited to me mic'd up I was looking at the presenter of the hourly news bulletin, all powdered, brushed, lip-glossed and ready to go. Unseen by the viewer but visible to me, were teleprompters located just below every camera. They began rolling as the news began and I remember thinking to myself. ...
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SEIZURE OF PEACE SHIP
3rd July 2009 | 0 comments | 0 votes yet, click here to agree or disagree
While our attention has been diverted by the death of Michael Jackson there has been an incident in the Middle East that has been ignored by the world's media.
On the 30th June, a Free Gaza ship, named the Spirit of Humanity, was carrying aid and toys for the besieged children of the Gaza strip. On board this ship were film-maker, Ismahil Blagrove, Nobel Prize winner and co-founder of the Community... -
Anyone Want An Olympic Stadium?
1st July 2009 | 0 comments | 0 votes yet, click here to agree or disagree
Do you remember how everyone whooped, hollered and screamed in Trafalgar Square when it was announced that the 2012 Olympic Games was to be held in London? Now Londoners are raging, cursing and swearing because we now realise that the proposed cost of the Olympics was a ridiculous guess and we will pay much of the billions of pounds shortfall through raised council taxes (not the first and last time...
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Alex Wheatle
Alex Wheatle was born in 1963 to Jamaican parents living in London. He spent most of his childhood in a children's home which he left at 14 to live in a hostel in Brixton. At 18 he was involved in the Brixton uprising and went to prison for 3 months. On his release, he continued to perform as a DJ and MC under the name Yardman Irie, moving in the early '90s onto the performance poetry circuit as the Brixton Bard. His second novel, East Of Acre Lane, won the London New Writers Award (2000) The Dirty South is his sixth novel. He received an MBE in the Queen's Birthday Honours List in 2008.
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