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Danny Baker sacked over “racist” Tweet about new royal baby
Radio host Danny Baker has been fired by the BBC after tweet regarding the birth of the royal baby. Baker, 61, seemingly mocking Meghan Markle's racial heritage with an image of two people holding hands with a monkey dressed in a suit. The radio star posted it, moments after the Duke and Duchess of Sussex revealed their son, with the caption: "Royal baby leaves hospital." Baker's tweet received a huge backlash on social media. He confirmed his firing from the BBC on Twitter, writing: "Just...
Fascinating animated graph illustrates Jeremy Corbyn’s meteoric social media rise
An animated graphic illustrating the meteoric rise of Jeremy Corbyn is making the rounds on social media. The moving chart shows the top 20 UK MPs by number of Twitter followers between October 2015 and May 2019. While serving PM David Cameron ranks in the top position for the most part, Corbyn storms past the former Conservative leader in 2016 after he famously survived a leadership contest. Come mid 2017- after Labour increased their share of the popular vote...
Nurse’s response to Trump accusing doctors and mums of ‘executing’ newborn babies goes viral
President Trump has embarked on the 2020 election campaign, gleefully deflecting attention from any further investigations of his affairs by going on the offence 'bigly'. In a rally in Wisconsin this weekend he whipped up his crowd of MAGA hat wearing followers by offending just about everyone from the “sick” news media to “scum” FBI investigators. In a rambling rant that was demented even by his standards, he turned to a myth he’s peddled before – that Democrats are “aggressively...
Ad industry launches campaign to help under-represented youth into media careers
Women, working class, Black, Asian and minority ethnic (BAME) talent are still chronically under-represented in Britain’s ad industry, an industry worth over £22 billion a year. To redress the balance adland has launched a campaign to attract young talent from under-represented backgrounds to apply for a innovative scheme to serve as a launchpad for talented youth into the capital's media industries Brixton Finishing School is a free bootcamp to get young talent into the media and digital industries, paid for...
Murdoch tabloid calls for climate change action after printing two pages of rival newspaper by mistake
One of Australia’s most popular tabloids has called for action on climate change after printing two pages from a rival newspaper by mistake. The Sydney-based Daily Telegraph, a right-leaning tabloid owned by Rupert Murdoch, accidentally printed two pages of the liberal Sydney Morning Herald in its Thursday edition. The pages include a letter calling for action to tackle climate change, the BBC has reported. In an announcement on Twitter this morning, The Telegraph said: “Good morning readers, today @DailyTelegraph printed...
Victoria’s Secret campaign reimagined using ‘real’ women on London’s Oxford Street
A series of billboard advertisements have been rolled out on London’s Oxford Street featuring the famous Victoria’s Secret catwalk campaign as you’ve never seen it before. ‘Real' women wearing incontinence pants star in the ads which emulate the underwear brand’s highly recognisable 'winged angels’ campaign. Supermodels including Lily Aldridge and Candice Swanepoel, strutted their stuff in the glamorous underwear in the original pictures. But this time, rather than high-profile models and statement underwear, these shots show ‘angels’ wearing black underwear...
David Attenborough warns life on Earth at stake in strongest climate change warning yet
Sir David Attenborough has issued his harshest warning yet on the threat posed to life on Earth by climate change. As Extinction Rebellion protests hit 80 cities in 33 countries around the planet to highlight a “climate emergency” the veteran nature broadcaster warned we "irreversible damage to the natural world and the collapse of our societies". Extinction Rebellion Blackfriars (c) Lucy Cartwright Highlighting the catastrophic extinctions facing the planet unless drastic action is taken, Attenborough says: “in the 20 years...
Racist told David Lammy to “go back to the jungle” & threatened to kill other MPs over opposition to Brexit
A racist who told David Lammy to “go back to the jungle” and threatened to kill other MPs over their opposition to Brexit was jailed today. Jarod Kirkman, 51, used a fake email address to target a cross-party selection of prominet "Remain" MPs - including Tory ex-cabinet minister Nicky Morgan and Labour's Yvette Cooper. Kirkman sent 19 emails telling his victims to “f**k off and die” and that their “days were numbered” between December 4 and January 21. But when...
Facebook bans prominent British far right figures ‘who spread hate’
Facebook has announced that it is banning some of the most prolific British far-right figures from its Facebook and Instagram platforms. The move comes after the world’s biggest social media firm said it would tackle the spread of white nationalism and supremacist content on its networks following the Christchurch mosque shooting in New Zealand. Earlier this month Facebook banned far-right pages in Canada. From midday today, 12 British accounts are banned under Facebook’s “dangerous individuals and organisations” policy. Donald Trump...