FlyTheNest

Morning all.

Good morning.

So a government who have been in control of its institutions for the past 10 years gets a carefully selected panel chosen by a No 10 official to report that those institutions aren't racist. Well, I'm deeply shocked by that news...

Elsewhere some see the news management as being a bit iffy...

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Peter Walker
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The précis was also released under a really rare type of embargo called “no approach” - usually only used for things like Queen’s honours etc. Means you can’t gather any reaction before embargo time (midnight in this case). They wanted to avoid *any* response to day 1 coverage.
7:54 AM · Mar 31, 2021·Twitter for iPhone

Stan Dupp
@SDupp
What a shame ? On the day that
@vickyford
was scaling Everest, as the first Briton to do so, she wasn’t around to receive the plaudits for ridding the country of institutional racism.

7:03 AM · Mar 31, 2021·Twitter for iPad

And this, from the report into the policing of the vigil on Clapham Common, is very odd.

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Why was the report even addressing the calls for Cressida Dick to go?

Nothing to see here. move along please...

Jim Pickard
@PickardJE
Bill Crothers controlled £40bn of annual UK state procurement
- he also set up Crown Commercial Service
- in 2016 he left to join Greensill
- in 2018 it won Gov contract
- but @ft can reveal he never obtained permission from lobbying watchdog Acoba

RogerOThornhill wrote:Good morning.

So a government who have been in control of its institutions for the past 10 years gets a carefully selected panel chosen by a No 10 official to report that those institutions aren't racist.

My initial impression is that they may have overdone it a little.

Hannah Al-Othman
@HannahAlOthman
And remember this is public money that the government is spending on self-serving “independent” reports that diminish in real value with each new implausible conclusion.

Wow, the Race Commission actually decided which journalists should get early sight of their report?

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So there are twenty (count em) candidates in May's election for London mayor.

Can't think anyone is surprised at this...

Private Eye Magazine
@PrivateEyeNews
Staff at outsourced Covid testing centres surprised to find they don't even work for G4S, but for a variety of brand new firms with directors in the Philippines that resemble "cut out" companies set up to avoid paying National Insurance. Full story in the new Eye, out today.
1:17 PM · Mar 31, 2021·Twitter Web App

gilsey wrote:

RogerOThornhill wrote:Good morning.

So a government who have been in control of its institutions for the past 10 years gets a carefully selected panel chosen by a No 10 official to report that those institutions aren't racist.

My initial impression is that they may have overdone it a little.

Yeah, you aren't really meant to make it this obvious.

Out of all my family, friends and acquaintances only one of them has been stopped by the police on a number of occasions while going about his business doing no harm to anybody. He's also the only one who's black. According to the Conservatives this is a total coincidence and probably his own fault for not 'helping himself through his own agency'.

Truly repellent.

Interesting and revealing thread on hiring...

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A bit selective in their use of evidence then?

Racial disparities in the UK: the people who compiled the report

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/ ... the-report

Dr Maggie Aderin-Pocock MBE

Noooo! I like Dr Maggie on the Sky at Night.

Always a bit of a downer when you find out somebody you like has naff politics.

And that someone you admired for their intelligence could be so willfully ignorant.

It's a double helping of disappointment.

I'll try imagining she's just politically naive and see how far that gets me next time I watch her.

For me nothing will ever beat seeing Clive Lloyd appear at a pro-Thatcher rally during the 1987 GE campaign - absolutely never saw that one coming.

Genuinely adored the guy as a kid.

Kenny Everett.

1983.