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Isa Guha is good. Nice sense of humour as well. Not scored as many test hundreds as Geoffrey, then again neither did Brian Johnson or Henry Blofeld.

Simon McCoy has Tweeted me, asking that I stop following and criticising him...

Good work. Simon has bigger issues to ponder. Like fighting back against the woke war on curry

'Food blogger says'.

OK then.

Suppose it’s how you make a mountain out of a molehill.

Good that there isn’t any important news around….

The food blogger in California's point was that some stuff called curry actually wasn't curry.

Correct - I believe the point was to use specific, rather than generic, names for different dishes.

Y'know, like on a takeaway menu.

Isn't that story at least a week old?

davidjay wrote: ↑Tue Aug 17, 2021 1:26 pm Isn't that story at least a week old?

At least.

Sometimes people make sensible and interesting points but phrase them in a rather antagonistic way for clicks, so I don't know what the original video was like. But what she says here (ignore the headline) sounds sensible. I'm not very interested in gastronomy- I just eat what people say is nice and usually like it- but anybody who is should do as she suggests and would get a lot of pleasure out understanding more about curry.

https://californianewstimes.com/now-the ... rm/474470/

Had this been an Australian or New Zealand food blogger, this would have got much less take up. It's the (mad liberal) California angle that gives it wings with a Fox News audience. I wonder whether it resonates as much for a GB News viewer. Do they just hear it and think "mad Americans"?

I first saw this on the cover of the Star, and the angle seemed to be "Here's some clever dicks messing with something you've taken for granted and calling you a racist too". Rather than pointing out that "curry" is applied to all sorts of Asian dishes of hot meat (or veg) in spicy sauce served with rice (does that make Boeuf Bourgignon, or a chilli. technically a curry?), it's turned into "Now they're trying to take away your chicken Madras".

California food bloggers sounds like cheap tv about something somebody in the London head office has seen on the internet. I thought GB News was going to get out there in "unfashionable" towns and find the real news.

I don't watch local news but if I did I'd watch the BBC or ITV. They have relatively local newsrooms Maybe we'll get on GB News if a kids playgroup in Ledbury bans Baa Baa Black Sheep.

I just watched a few minutes of Jakob Reiss-Mog having a chummy pint with Nargle Fargle.

Reesmoog was as unutterably (and insultingly) camp as usual, but he wasn't having Fargle's attempts to pin all the Afghanistan blame on Biden, stressing it was Fargle's pal Trumpf wot did it. Not to Fargle's pleasing.

It then moved on to fiscal policy, and Jake the Jerk made a case against further quantitative easing. Throughout Fargle did an impression of a saloon bar drunk, '"I know..." "Yeees...". He brought nothing to the conversation, just made phatic noises.

Thick as week old mince and just as toxic.

Rees Mogg. it's easy to forget, is a Cabinet Minister. Is this a sensible use of his time?

Yeah, I bet it wasn't broadbrush bollocks. Heavyweight foreign affairs with Nigel Farage.

Watch how Nigel stops nodding sagely when Neil suggests the only game in town is now a European defence capability.

Adrian Hilton's biography from his own site is underwhelming.

Adrian Hilton is a conservative academic, theologian, author and educationalist. He has spent more than 20 years in secondary and university education, teaching, writing and lecturing in politics, jurisprudence, philosophy and theology in the UK and the US.

He was Head of Politics & Philosophy (A level & IB) at a grammar school for 10 years, where he was appointed Assistant Principal with responsibility for whole-school Learning & Teaching. During this time he was also an adviser in education to Michael Gove, then Shadow Secretary of State.

An alumnus of the Royal Shakespeare Company, he has directed numerous theatre productions and holds a Guinness World Record for the longest marathon theatre performance by an individual for a non-stop dramatic recital of the Complete Works of Shakespeare, which was inaugurated by the Duke of Edinburgh on the site of the Globe Theatre in July 1987.

He has twice been selected as a parliamentary candidate (Stratford-upon-Avon, 1997; Slough, 2005). He is a Council member of The Freedom Association and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts. He has written on matters relating to politics, religion, arts, culture and education for ConservativeHome, The Spectator and The Daily Mail.

Academics usually like to tell you where they've worked and what they've done.

What are his qualifications? No mention of a PhD or MA even. What did he actually teach in a university setting? My guess is he started a PhD in theology and did some teaching to undergraduates on different courses which touched on the stuff he knew about. That wouldn't really be lecturing in theology, jurisprudence and philosophy though, would it?

We can infer he's got a PGCE, and fair enough, he had a good job at (apparently) Slough Grammar School. But he's claiming to be rather more than an ex-teacher/ school manager.

He's supposed to be a lecturer now. What lectures does he do now? Is he paid?

About his selection to contest Slough in 2005 then. Wiki shows it was contested by Sheila Gunn, not him.

What happened?

Mr Hilton was dropped from being parliamentary candidate for Slough at the 2005 General Election after writing an article in The Spectator that stated that "a Catholic EU will inevitably result in the subjugation of Britain's Protestant ethos to Roman Catholic social, political and religious teaching". The Slough Conservative Association refused to deselect Mr Hilton and were then suspended en masse by CCHQ as a result. Although the Catholic Herald accused Mr Hilton of being 'anti-papist' and a 'bigot' he was supported by Charles Moore, a Roman Catholic, who saw religious persecution in his deselection.

Great effort.

Here's academic Adrian blithely passing on a terrifying sounding story for which the only evidence are some anti-abortion liars (for which the source isn't the "BBC"), You won't be surprised to hear Simon O'Connor MP regularly talks shit about abortion.

More heavyweight analysis from a contributor.

They aren't "banned from campus". They're banned from living on campus. Anything happen last year at all that might suggest this is a good idea? It's a proper mystery.