leicsmac Posted 31 March 2021 Share Posted 31 March 2021 1 hour ago, Innovindil said: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-china-56563449 The more you read about China the more cvnty they sound. Sigh. The only small mercy is that they don't seem bound and determined to export that particular brand of cvntishness. At the present time, anyway. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
String fellow Posted 31 March 2021 Share Posted 31 March 2021 1 hour ago, leicsmac said: The only small mercy is that they don't seem bound and determined to export that particular brand of cvntishness. At the present time, anyway. China has strong economic interests in parts of East Africa, with Zambia now virtually a Chinese colony. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
leicsmac Posted 31 March 2021 Share Posted 31 March 2021 1 hour ago, String fellow said: China has strong economic interests in parts of East Africa, with Zambia now virtually a Chinese colony. Agreed. However, for me "buy our stuff and take our loans or your economy will do down the pan" isn't quite the same as "actively back coups and direct military intervention in other states to bring about governments friendly to the intervener and sharing the same ideology as it". There's a lot of truthful accusations about shit behaviour that can be leveled at the Chinese government. Being aggressively imperialist, I would say, is not one of them - not until we see a Zambian (or elsewhere) government with a state capitalist ideology, repressive dictatorship and Chinese military bases in multiple places in the country. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Innovindil Posted 31 March 2021 Share Posted 31 March 2021 https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-china-56586655 The BBC's Beijing correspondent John Sudworth has left China and moved to Taiwan following pressure and threats from the Chinese authorities. Sudworth, who has won awards for his reporting on the treatment of the Uyghur people in the Xinjiang region, left Beijing with his family. "Only in recent days when we were faced with the task of renewing Sudworth's press card did we learn that Sudworth left without saying goodbye. After he left the country, he didn't by any means inform the relevant departments nor provide any reason why," Hua Chunying told a news conference in Beijing. Reckon if I had you muppets all over me I'd be leaving without a cheerio too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
leicsmac Posted 31 March 2021 Share Posted 31 March 2021 4 minutes ago, Innovindil said: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-china-56586655 The BBC's Beijing correspondent John Sudworth has left China and moved to Taiwan following pressure and threats from the Chinese authorities. Sudworth, who has won awards for his reporting on the treatment of the Uyghur people in the Xinjiang region, left Beijing with his family. "Only in recent days when we were faced with the task of renewing Sudworth's press card did we learn that Sudworth left without saying goodbye. After he left the country, he didn't by any means inform the relevant departments nor provide any reason why," Hua Chunying told a news conference in Beijing. Reckon if I had you muppets all over me I'd be leaving without a cheerio too. The last time I saw gaslighting that impressive I was at a Victorian exhibition. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alf Bentley Posted 31 March 2021 Share Posted 31 March 2021 https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-56581131 "Brazil's Jair Bolsonaro is facing the biggest crisis of his presidency after the heads of the army, navy and air force all quit and the country recorded its highest daily Covid-19 death toll. The unprecedented resignation of the defence chiefs is being seen as a protest at attempts by Mr Bolsonaro to exert undue control over the military. Mr Bolsonaro's popularity has plummeted over his response to Covid-19. Nearly 314,000 people have died, with a new daily record of 3,780 on Tuesday". 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
leicsmac Posted 1 April 2021 Share Posted 1 April 2021 7 hours ago, Alf Bentley said: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-56581131 "Brazil's Jair Bolsonaro is facing the biggest crisis of his presidency after the heads of the army, navy and air force all quit and the country recorded its highest daily Covid-19 death toll. The unprecedented resignation of the defence chiefs is being seen as a protest at attempts by Mr Bolsonaro to exert undue control over the military. Mr Bolsonaro's popularity has plummeted over his response to Covid-19. Nearly 314,000 people have died, with a new daily record of 3,780 on Tuesday". Saddening? Yes. Surprising? Absolutely not. As if there was any more evidence needed that "statesmen" with good PR teams in the style of Senhor Bolsanaro destroy countries rather than help them. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
leicsmac Posted 1 April 2021 Share Posted 1 April 2021 https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-56594099 How messed up do you have to be to kill someone - even accidentally - who posed zero capital threat to you and was in fact begging for their life? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bovril Posted 1 April 2021 Share Posted 1 April 2021 We need to change our official language to Welsh asap to avoid importing anymore of this nonsense. https://www.classicfm.com/music-news/oxford-university-decolonising-music-syllabus/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
String fellow Posted 1 April 2021 Share Posted 1 April 2021 4 hours ago, bovril said: We need to change our official language to Welsh asap to avoid importing anymore of this nonsense. https://www.classicfm.com/music-news/oxford-university-decolonising-music-syllabus/ What next - a ban on Mozart because he was around during the slave-trade era? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bovril Posted 1 April 2021 Share Posted 1 April 2021 14 minutes ago, String fellow said: What next - a ban on Mozart because he was around during the slave-trade era? "Possible changes to undergraduate courses include reducing the focus on canonic classical composers like Mozart and Beethoven, in a proposed move away from “white European music from the slave period”. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
urban.spaceman Posted 1 April 2021 Share Posted 1 April 2021 5 hours ago, bovril said: We need to change our official language to Welsh asap to avoid importing anymore of this nonsense. https://www.classicfm.com/music-news/oxford-university-decolonising-music-syllabus/ 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Free Falling Foxes Posted 1 April 2021 Share Posted 1 April 2021 1 hour ago, urban.spaceman said: Occasionally, you read something that you wish you had written yourself. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Otis Posted 1 April 2021 Share Posted 1 April 2021 What ever you give these people will never be enough, they will always want more. Just say no from the very start. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blarmy Posted 1 April 2021 Share Posted 1 April 2021 2 hours ago, bovril said: "Possible changes to undergraduate courses include reducing the focus on canonic classical composers like Mozart and Beethoven, in a proposed move away from “white European music from the slave period”. Wtf Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
I am Rod Hull Posted 1 April 2021 Share Posted 1 April 2021 Our Universities are full of arseholes preaching Marxism to our kids, you have to be blind not to see it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bovril Posted 1 April 2021 Share Posted 1 April 2021 2 hours ago, urban.spaceman said: Hitchens died a decade ago, and I don't think the problem at the moment is people who are 'easily offended', it's a specific ideology that is being forced on institutions. British Conservatives seem to be waking up to the fact that this stuff rides in not on the back of 'socialism' but American style corporatism. Quite why so many right wingers want us to move away from Europe and closer to America is beyond me, although I think that will change in the coming years as the backlash towards this stuff grows in the UK and EU. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Buce Posted 1 April 2021 Share Posted 1 April 2021 32 minutes ago, I am Rod Hull said: Our Universities are full of arseholes preaching Marxism to our kids, you have to be blind not to see it. Which university did you attend to reach that conclusion? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Carl the Llama Posted 1 April 2021 Share Posted 1 April 2021 1 hour ago, Otis said: What ever you give these people will never be enough, they will always want more. Just say no from the very start. ...who? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Carl the Llama Posted 1 April 2021 Share Posted 1 April 2021 I didn't realise we had so many keen classical music enthusiasts. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Otis Posted 1 April 2021 Share Posted 1 April 2021 7 minutes ago, Carl the Llama said: ...who? The Woke brigade Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Carl the Llama Posted 1 April 2021 Share Posted 1 April 2021 Just now, Otis said: The Woke brigade And they are? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bovril Posted 1 April 2021 Share Posted 1 April 2021 1 minute ago, Carl the Llama said: I didn't realise we had so many keen classical music enthusiasts. I guess it's like the flag stuff - the vast majority don't really give a shit but when they feel culture or traditions are under attack they'll instinctively defend it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dahnsouff Posted 1 April 2021 Share Posted 1 April 2021 1 hour ago, Free Falling Foxes said: Occasionally, you read something that you wish you had written yourself. That is a very high bar indeed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dahnsouff Posted 1 April 2021 Share Posted 1 April 2021 1 hour ago, bovril said: Hitchens died a decade ago, and I don't think the problem at the moment is people who are 'easily offended', it's a specific ideology that is being forced on institutions. British Conservatives seem to be waking up to the fact that this stuff rides in not on the back of 'socialism' but American style corporatism. Quite why so many right wingers want us to move away from Europe and closer to America is beyond me, although I think that will change in the coming years as the backlash towards this stuff grows in the UK and EU. That is mind blowingly unspecific. Help me out here! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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