Posted on 06/30/2025 4:46:26 AM PDT by Twotone
I have paid a modicum of attention to British and European media regulation ever since I was removed from UK broadcasting, now and forever. Probably would have been wiser to pay attention before my removal, but, be that as it may, Ofcom decided that my conversation with Naomi Wolf about the Covid vaccines risked causing "harm" to people. And we wouldn't want that, would we?
So I was interested to learn from the weekend's Glastonbury Festival just who you can target for "harm". Back in my youth, Glasto was a big peace'n'lovefest with a somewhat tedious hippie aesthetic. But now everybody seems to enjoy it mostly for the exhortations to murder: all we are saying is give death a chance! For whom? Well, Israelis, of course: A rap duo called Bob Vylan had a catchy chant that went "Death death to the IDF!" Well, the armed forces of the Zionist Entity can look after themselves, but their set was aired live not on unwatched GB News but on Britain's most popular broadcast outlet, BBC Radio Two. The BBC is funded by a government-imposed license fee on the UK public, so it's famously impartial. Thus, in compliance with Ofcom rules on "balance", the Beeb immediately followed "Death death to the IDF!" with Al Jolson's live performance of "Death death to Ayatollah Khamenei!"
Who else can you risk "harm" to? Well, Members of Parliament, obviously. Another rap group, Kneecap (named after a favourite IRA method of social control), enchanted the peaceniks with their beloved catchphrase "The only good Tory is a dead Tory. Kill your local MP":
Kneecap: "The only good Tory is a dead Tory. Kill your local MP."
"Up Hamas, up Hezbollah"
Emily Eavis: "Everyone is welcome here."
Shame on @glastonbury and on her.
(Excerpt) Read more at steynonline.com ...
I'm Keir Starmer and I endorse this message. As I wrote twenty years ago - whoops, no, thirty sodding years ago, a counter-culture has to have a culture to counter. And in Britain and elsewhere an old establishment has merely been supplanted by a new one with lousier tunes. It's not "edgy" or "transgressive" if you're live on the BBC's biggest outlet at an event run by a bloke with a knighthood. The only true counter-culture is that identified by the pseudo-edgy ersatz-transgressive Sir Bob Vylan - the ones who want their country back. Ask Peter Lynch.
No more permits for any organization that turns out to call for death to anyone.
Vet them well.
I, for one, am sick of getting UK news articles. Yuck, yuck, UK is so bizarre.
Sounds like the UK is being run by Alice Cooper.
Sounds like the UK is being run by Alice Cooper.
Not generally a fan, but Alice Cooper is literate and sane.
Welcome to my Nightmare is sane? I used it as the theme song for an out of control project I was put in charge of getting control of.
Just awful. The world has truly gone insane.
Vincent Furnier is a good Christian who’s been to alcoholism and back while establishing himself as the founder of “shock rock”, a genre mixing music and theater with a morbid bent not dissimilar from opera. He also leads an annual golf tournament for charity.
“Alice Cooper” was his band’s original name and he just went with it rather than argue.
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