Into the Melting Pot
I suppose it’s quite normal and predictable for people to gush over a baby, (even if the more reserved among us might find it a little embarrassing). At least such gushing is usually confined to a family and its friends, but not when the baby is a royal baby because royal babies belong to all of us. There was huge excitement when Prince George was born in 2013 because one day he is going to…
Enough Already!!
Sick of the “Royal” wedding? Yes, so am I. In fact I was sick of it even before I penned the earlier piece which appeared here on the 18th May. Nevertheless, I thought it worth looking at the aftermath. Very much as I expected, the press went completely gaga over the fact that she’s a half-caste. Here’s a couple of very different but still fairly typical journalistic reactions:- Bonnie Greer in the Daily Telegraph, 21.5.2018…
Cultural Appropriation is a Double-Edged Sword!
‘Cultural appropriation’ is a term which is currently doing the rounds among ethnic minority advocates and liberal-Marxists, and which is being used to abuse White people who have adopted some method of doing something, or some artifact or style that has in recent times become associated with non-White, predominantly sub-Saharan African or African-American culture. As an article on The Root website states, the term “cultural appropriation” is normally thought of as “white people taking an…
Boxers, Bones & Bone Clones
By Max Musson: I have always found it ironic that journalists often end up as specialist feature writers for subjects that they have no real knowledge of or qualifications in, and I was reminded of this again this morning when I saw popular science articles on most of the newspaper websites today quoting Dr David Carrier of the University of Utah, who has done much research into vertebrate physical adaption for either fight or flight. In these articles…
Eugenics and the Search for a British Obama
By Max Musson: Writing in the wake of Barack Obama’s re-election as US President, for ‘The Voice’, the black community’s newspaper and online news service, Duton Adebayo shared with his readers part of a telephone conversation he had with a fellow black journalist who asked him, “When will we get our first black leader here in Britain?” Adebayo’s answer was “2020!” and in the article for The Voice, he went on to express his belief that…