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the Sun reacts to Zephaniah applying for a Cambridge visiting fellowship (feddit.uk)
submitted 11 months ago by snacks to c/unitedkingdom
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Kelvin McKenzie, what a despicable arsehole.

Things like this dont happen in a vacuum. The latest episode of News Agents has an interview with John Bercow who spent a good few minutes explaining his roots in the Monday Club, a white supremacist Tory lobbying group who supported Apartheid and was set up by Enoch Powell.

I dont think the Sun is quite the same organisation today, but it helps to see the journey. McKenzie was a regular political commentator until fairly recently and his legacy was in the news this week: Hillsborough.

They should paint it on his grave when he dies and rots in hell

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[–] HowManyNimons@lemmy.world 64 points 11 months ago

I dont think the Sun is quite the same organisation today

The Sun wants us to pull out of international human rights laws so we can send genuine asylum seekers to Rwanda. They are every bit as despicable as ever.

[–] Emperor 47 points 11 months ago (1 children)

The Scum indeed.

I'm from Liverpool and one of my classmates died at Hillsborough (I remember the news came through at a school disco). We don't forget.

[–] ThePyroPython 12 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Fuck the Sun.

Fuck the Tories.

Fuck London.

How about Liverpool, Manchester, Leeds and the rest of the north secede from England and create Neo Mercia.

[–] GardenVarietyAnxiety@lemmy.world 20 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

If you're concerned that your college age "offspring" can't be trusted to choose what they learn and who they learn it from, you've failed as a parent.

[–] obelix@lemmy.world 19 points 11 months ago

Fuck the S*n.

[–] DeathWearsANecktie@lemm.ee 8 points 11 months ago

He turned down an OBE, I will always respect him for that. RIP Benjamin

[–] Sanctus@lemmy.world 7 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

If hes nice yeah, is the only answer that civilized people give.

[–] lemonflavoured@kbin.social 2 points 11 months ago

Kelvin McKenzie is a cunt, film at 11.

[–] Flax_vert 1 points 11 months ago

The Scum*

[–] Tb0n3@sh.itjust.works -1 points 11 months ago (3 children)

Knowing nothing of him aside from the supposed quote I would merely question his merits. Honestly I've never heard of him. Could somebody give me a representative sample of his poetry?

[–] Devi@kbin.social 9 points 11 months ago (1 children)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin_Zephaniah

Google is your friend. He's one of the top 50 UK poets in the last century, he was honoured by the crown, he's a very respected poet.

[–] Tb0n3@sh.itjust.works 4 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Having zero knowledge of him, I was asking for what people considered works that are representative. I did get one suggestion. Google can be rather hit or miss on lots of things these days. Most of my results were that he died yesterday.

[–] Emperor 5 points 11 months ago

I gave one here, which links to his website.

[–] florge 3 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Talking turkeys is probably his most well known.