Quite an extraordinary interview on @RTELateLateShow last night.
@BoyGeorge lived in Golders Green and speaks about his life long relationship Jewish people, explaining how his support for Jews has resulted in him receiving much abuse. Two defining moments come when he asked the audience if they know any Jewish people and is met by stone cold silence. The silence represents a combination of fear that admitting such relationships publicly might cause difficulty and the reality that most Irish people don't know any Jews. As he said himself, the silence is deafening.
The second incredulous aspect of the interview is @PatricKielty's singular lack of empathy when speaking about Jews. Here is a public figure who has been rightly applauded for his brave public confrontation with the tragic sectarian murder of his father and the manner in which he has engaged with the loyalist community in the North. How is it that a man capable of extraordinary courage is blind to the persecution of another minority in the city of London where he calls home? Has he been corrupted by the RTE hive mind where the narrative around the issue of Israel and Jews is disturbingly unbalanced? So disappointed.
Segment begins at 10.30. H/T @ElmaRyder
https://t.co/B2OFD5f3NH
Major update to our map of Anglo-Saxon London... we've now added etymologies for each place name... so you can find out what your bit of London used to be called.... and why. (High-res version on link.) https://t.co/ngxyZXCumo
Happy birthday, President @JMilei! Your leadership & commitment to freedom are setting a new course for the Republic of Argentina.
¡Feliz cumpleaños, presidente @JMilei! Su liderazgo y compromiso con la libertad están marcando un nuevo rumbo para la República Argentina. Nos vemos pronto. 🇦🇷🇺🇸 🎂🎉
44 years ago today, Diana Ross called Michael Jackson up on stage while performing her hit 'Upside Down'
I love the way he just grabbed the mic and made it his own 😭
The Rolling Stones - Happy
Keith’s signature tune. Wailing away, in all his glory, in open-g heaven. Written and recorded in a single afternoon. At noon it didn’t exist; at four o'clock it was on tape.
Irresistibly catchy. Play it and smile.
“I have never understood why it is ‘greed’ to want to keep the money you have earned but not greed to want to take somebody else’s money.”
— Thomas Sowell