BRFR Cake Stop 'breaking news' miscellany

[Ian H]

Which one? Or does any one mean they all are?

I believe some were shown upthread.

 

[briantrumpet]

One of those few people you never hear a bad thing about and who has successfully crossed several generations (my 22 year old daughter thinks he’s amazing)

Apologies I can't find anything other than a FB post, but I was there for this Hon Grad speech by him. At 85 years old, he spoke for the best part of ten minutes, without looking at his notes, with barely an 'um' or an 'ah', or a stumble, with an impassioned and cogent speech. A quite remarkable man.

 

[briantrumpet]

But what if Gerald Scarfe had drawn it, with his usual pointy noses and angry faces?

I think it would have gone unnoticed, because that's his style.

It would have gone un-noted for antisemitic tropes, as Scarfe doesn't do the tropes (as far as I've ever been aware), just righteous viciousness.

FWIW, I think Polanski deserved ridiculing for his reaction, but Brookes' recourse to witting or unwitting tropes spoilt his point, so even if you don't accept my argument (despite my generally being very sceptical about how the 'antisemitism' accusation is often deployed), his carelessness (at best) is self-defeating, with the focus being on the tropes rather than Polanski's statement.

 

[First Aspect]

It would have gone un-noted for antisemitic tropes, as Scarfe doesn't do the tropes (as far as I've ever been aware), just righteous viciousness.

FWIW, I think Polanski deserved ridiculing for his reaction, but Brookes' recourse to witting or unwitting tropes spoilt his point, so even if you don't accept my argument (despite my generally being very sceptical about how the 'antisemitism' accusation is often deployed), his carelessness (at best) is self-defeating, with the focus being on the tropes rather than Polanski's statement.

The argument that someone can't be accused of a trope because he doesn't (didn't) do them is cyclic at best.

Lets see how it pans out. I think the Times will ignore or defend, and that if the Greens raise the ante the Times will defend itself more. For that reason, I suspect time will show it to have been a bit of cynical electioneering on their part to deflect from the breathtakingly stupid position Polanski took on the issue.

The only other one I looked at was the snooker player one. Again, that's no more anti Semitic than the Ed Milliband image on the other thread.

 

[briantrumpet]

Lets see how it pans out.

It's a deal.