Couldn't happen to a more deserving person.
(, Tue 29 May 2018, 20:37, Reply)
Stephen Yakety-Sax-Lennon, and have since been unable to read his name any other way.
(, Tue 29 May 2018, 21:00, Reply)
How he's fallen since 2-4-6-8 motorway
www.change.org/p/theresa-may-mp-free-tommy-robinson
(, Tue 29 May 2018, 21:13, Reply)
first they came for the racist gobshite no-marks fucking up the justice system, and I said nothing...
(, Tue 29 May 2018, 21:33, Reply)
was slightly confused by the translations there, I mean why would the EDL target people who can't fucking read English or indeed are aware of google translate?
edit: ah. NoScript strike again. I'm pretty sure it's more fucking trouble than it's worth
(, Tue 29 May 2018, 21:58, Reply)
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(, Tue 29 May 2018, 23:38, Reply)
Shaun Ashton
16 seconds ago
"Because this fecking government is discusting people need to know about these discusting filthy paedophiles"
(, Wed 30 May 2018, 10:22, Reply)
says we should free Tommy Morrison.
(, Wed 30 May 2018, 12:11, Reply)
purely for a gawp at idiots?
It feels a bit Bedlam.
(, Tue 29 May 2018, 22:36, Reply)
Although lots of people don't progress much further than primary school and the rest of us get to clean up the mess.
So not very guilty really.
(, Wed 30 May 2018, 13:32, Reply)
Good work, Maajid.
(, Tue 29 May 2018, 23:26, Reply)
The reporting of the details seems to be extremely thin.
(, Wed 30 May 2018, 11:18, Reply)
thesecretbarrister.com/2018/05/25/what-has-happened-to-poor-tommy-robinson/
(, Wed 30 May 2018, 12:16, Reply)
But it certainly contains more information than every major news outlet has. So thanks.
(, Wed 30 May 2018, 12:23, Reply)
if one is directly branding a guy's supporters as knuckledraggers, and then dismissing people with valid concerns as "ye of little brain" (, and a bunch of other similar things) then I'd say one has something of a bias.
(, Wed 30 May 2018, 14:11, Reply)
S/he's being maybe a little blunt in her/ his characterisation of TR's fans, but it doesn't follow from that that there's anything misleading in the analysis. And absent that, it's hard to substantiate a claim that there's bias or partiality.
(, Wed 30 May 2018, 15:30, Reply)
Makes no real difference to me.
However, you should probably note that a number of claims are just assumed to be true, specifically that the guy is racist (which very well may be the case), and a cult leader, without provision of evidence. Also certain turns of phrase are employed which effectively amount to straw men, such as referring to the guy as Tommy The Brave, which is not a title that I think anyone has ever bestowed upon this guy.
Ultimately while there are some clear and unchallengable facts contained within, the entire tone of the article is clearly snarky and hostile, and there's nothing wrong with that, but it's pretty blinkered to not see the inherent bias in it.
(, Wed 30 May 2018, 15:41, Reply)
Hark! At the middle class scribes sniffing at the Brylcreamed Spiv. (I know I am..)
(, Wed 30 May 2018, 18:27, Reply)
I don't like the guy but jailing someone for 13 months for being outside a court and trying to gag the media is something that you'd expect of a police state, not the UK.
The ban on media coverage of the case was both disturbing and comical. It seems to have taken several days for the judge to be brought up to speed with regards to the existence of the internet, and how he doesn't control it, before the ban was lifted.
(, Wed 30 May 2018, 21:10, Reply)