[mattomac]

Did you see Alice Roberts' programme on Plymouth last night? An absolute object lesson in how we assess our history. I expect there will be complaints from the Mail - in fact I think there have been over her description of John Hawkins as a slave trader. Which he was, no question, but hey, revisionism...

What was this on?

[Malcolm Armsteen]

'Britain's Most Historic Towns', C4. Should be available on catch up.

[Watchman]

The only concept the Conservative’s have of charity is the blue rinse brigade selling a few cakes for the local private school, and the warm glow it gives them

[davidjay]

The only concept the Conservative’s have of charity is the blue rinse brigade selling a few cakes for the local private school, and the warm glow it gives them

And sending things they don't want to the dark children abroad so they can be grateful and love the mother country forever more.

[davidjay]

The only concept the Conservative’s have of charity is the blue rinse brigade selling a few cakes for the local private school, and the warm glow it gives them

And sending things they don't want to the dark children abroad so they can be grateful and love the mother country forever more.

[satnav]

This is the Tory concept of charity.


A tax dodging Tory newspapers getting its readers to donate cash to buy PPE to bail out a floundering Tory government.

[The Red Arrow]

Still, Captain Sir Tom, eh?

People still ask me why I hate them so much, you know.

[Bones McCoy]

This is the Tory concept of charity.


A tax dodging Tory newspapers getting its readers to donate cash to buy PPE to bail out a floundering Tory government.

Mailites raise 11Million.

Hancock hands it (and 10 times more) to his Neighbour / Pub Landlord ....

[Boiler]

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/edition/news ... -m5kr8ff2b

A former Tory councillor who bought a country estate after being awarded £276m in government contracts for personal protective equipment (PPE) has added a holiday home and a house for his parents to his property portfolio.

Steve Dechan is the owner of Platform-14, which specialises in medical devices for people with chronic pain. The Gloucestershire firm recorded a loss of almost £500,000 last year.

[The Red Arrow]

And that's just one of them.

[Oblomov]

This is the Tory concept of charity.


A tax dodging Tory newspapers getting its readers to donate cash to buy PPE to bail out a floundering Tory government.

And I thought they'd drop that "VICTORY FOR THE MAIL" bollocks when Dacre fucked off

[Boiler]

Randomly spotted in the BBC SYB on the forthcoming Covid vote on tiers:

Screenshot_2020-11-30 Coronavirus Government publishes data behind stricter tiers.png (6.47 KiB) Viewed 589 times

Indeed - beware the "Research Group" within the Tory ranks.

[The Red Arrow]

You sure the 'R' stands for 'Research' there, amigo?

[Malcolm Armsteen]

Oh man! Buy bigger shirts!

[Boiler]

This is the Tory concept of charity.


A tax dodging Tory newspapers getting its readers to donate cash to buy PPE to bail out a floundering Tory government.

And today:

A charity set up by the Daily Mail to buy protective equipment for NHS staff donated 100,000 face masks suspected of being made by workers in a controversial Chinese labour programme.

The masks were flown in from China by the paper's Mail Force campaign, which was launched in April to buy PPE.

They were bought from Medwell Medical Products, a firm suspected of using Uighur Muslims in the labour scheme.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-55088995