Fancy Brexit coming round to cycling!It's the Fred Whitton this Sunday, 2500 cyclists can't be wrong, can they?
Fancy Brexit coming round to cycling!It's the Fred Whitton this Sunday, 2500 cyclists can't be wrong, can they?
Question Time should be worth watching tonight. Nigel Farage versus Anna Soubry could be a vert feisty encounter. Incredibly it looks like they are going to have another leave supporter on the panel - businessman John Mills. So it will only be a 3:2 Remain bias instead of the usual 4:1. What's going on at the BBC, somebody has clearly cocked up. Heads will roll for this I would imagine.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0004xb1
Same thing happened to me a couple of weeks ago on a Thursday night from Hayfield. Oh, it was Nick Craig!!Originally Posted by DrPatrickBarry
Ah, that is how he does it then
Well when someone goes past you on a serious road e-bike like a Focus Paralane2 9.8 or a Wilier Cento1HY Ultegra D12 at least you can comfort yourself by thinking how much these bikes have cost (£6300+ and £5200 respectively) and if you identify the bike as a Ribble Endurance SLe it might even be Sean Yates on top.Ah, that is how he does it then
As the Brexit thread now seems to be a general politics/cycling/argument thread...
Danny Baker sacked from BBC after 'racist tweet'
Whatever the rights and wrongs of this one (and I happen to take his side as he seems a top bloke, despite it appearing to be pretty stupid and obvious what the reaction would be)……… that's probably the best radio show on the air, now gone.
One would expect somebody in his line of work to be more aware of the implications of anything he does.
I heard his defence that the monkey represented the whole royal family rather than the sprog in question, I have no opinion on whether he is lying or not, because I could not care less.
Last edited by DrPatrickBarry; 09-05-2019 at 01:34 PM.
It's a totally ridiculous overreaction from the BBC to sack him, but sadly not at all surprising. Some people took offence at the tweet so he apologised and deleted it. In a sane world that would have been the end of it. But these days once the social media lynch mob get going, keen to signal their virtue you've had it.
Last edited by Muddy Retriever; 09-05-2019 at 02:27 PM. Reason: "lynch mob", not lunch mob"
Yes, I feel a bit sorry for him. Tweets are so easy to misinterpret, and there are so many who either take offence easily or are led by others to do so.
When my broadcasting career takes off, I will ban myself from tweeting.
In this respect though any of the possible interpretations were pretty shitty.
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