Thursday, July 22, 2004
A new report challenges the music industry's insistence that file-sharing is lowering their sales. Unsurprisingly the BPI and the IFPI have responded by saying that it is 'a flawed study'.
A recent study from the Commission for Racial Equality said 90% of white people in the UK had no or hardly any black or Asian friends. However, 47% of people from ethnic minorities say white people form most of their friends. I must admit, discount people I work with and I've only got probably two Asian friends (three counting one of them's husband), and one of them was someone who I used to work with who is now a friend.
Meanwhile, The UKIP reassure everyone, as they take their seats in the European Parliament, that they aren't just xenophobic, they're capable of sexism too.
Speaking on the fringes of a press conference [Godfrey] Bloom [, nominated by UKIP for the Euro-Parliament's Women's Rights Committee,] joked that women "don't clean behind the fridge enough" adding: "I would represent Yorkshire women who always have dinner on the table when you come home." As the episode reached a surreal climax he turned to a television camera to declare: "The more rights you have [for women] it is actually a bar on their employment. No self-respecting small business man with a brain in the right place would ever employ a lady of child-bearing age. That isn't politically correct is it? But it is a fact of life; I know because I'm a businessman."
I wonder what sort of business he's involved with, if he doesn't need to worry about insulting women? Condom manufacturer perhaps? So we have a group of people here with anger-management problems, drink problems, links to fascist groups and who would like if they could to turn back the clock on women's rights. And they were democratically elected.
A recent study from the Commission for Racial Equality said 90% of white people in the UK had no or hardly any black or Asian friends. However, 47% of people from ethnic minorities say white people form most of their friends. I must admit, discount people I work with and I've only got probably two Asian friends (three counting one of them's husband), and one of them was someone who I used to work with who is now a friend.
Meanwhile, The UKIP reassure everyone, as they take their seats in the European Parliament, that they aren't just xenophobic, they're capable of sexism too.
Speaking on the fringes of a press conference [Godfrey] Bloom [, nominated by UKIP for the Euro-Parliament's Women's Rights Committee,] joked that women "don't clean behind the fridge enough" adding: "I would represent Yorkshire women who always have dinner on the table when you come home." As the episode reached a surreal climax he turned to a television camera to declare: "The more rights you have [for women] it is actually a bar on their employment. No self-respecting small business man with a brain in the right place would ever employ a lady of child-bearing age. That isn't politically correct is it? But it is a fact of life; I know because I'm a businessman."
I wonder what sort of business he's involved with, if he doesn't need to worry about insulting women? Condom manufacturer perhaps? So we have a group of people here with anger-management problems, drink problems, links to fascist groups and who would like if they could to turn back the clock on women's rights. And they were democratically elected.
