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So Gary Lineker is sidelined for speaking the truth but Fiona Bruce saying this is fine

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Random Real Thoroughbred: DIVINE ALIBHAI

DIVINE ALIBHAI is a dark bay/brown mare born in The United States in 1971. By YOUR ALIBHAI out of DIVINE SARA. Link to their pedigreequery page: https://www.pedigreequery.com/divine+alibhai

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14 February 2023 King Charles has attended the launch of Syria House, a temporary tent in Trafalgar Square, where members of the Syrian community can get together to support those affected by the recent earthquakes in the country. Report by Zaina Alibhai. 📹: The Royal Family Channel

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PLAYERS (2012) | Action Thriller film | 100 billion (US$1.5 billion)

Players is a Bollywood action and thriller movie directed by Abbas–Mustan. The main roles of this movie are done by Vinod Khanna, Abhishek Bachchan, and Bipasha Basu. The movie is initially released on 06 January 2012. Players is released in Hindi language from India to the world.

MOVIE INFO

A thief asks his mentor for help when a DVD clue from a dead friend tips him off to one of the largest heists of the century.

Cast

Abhishek Bachchan, Bipasha Basu, Sonam Kapoor, Neil Nitin Mukesh, Bobby Deol, Sikandar Kher, Omi Vaidya

Genre: Drama, Action, Mystery & thriller

Original Language: Hindi

Director: Abbas Alibhai Burmawalla

Writer: Bhaskar Hazarika, Rohit Jugraj, Sudip Sharma, Nikhat Bhatty

Release Date (Streaming): Jul 2, 2017

Runtime: 2h 47m

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BBC defends Fiona Bruce over accusations presenter ‘trivialised domestic abuse’

T he BBC has defended Question Time’s Fiona Bruce against accusations that she trivialised domestic abuse during a discussion about Stanley Johnson. The presenter has faced a social media backlash after intervening when father of former prime minister Boris Johnson was described as a “wife-beater” in Thursday’s episode of the show. Journalist and panel member Yasmin Alibhai-Brown had said the…

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Quotes to use?

Bourne, S. (2001) Black in the British frame: Black people in British film and Television. London: Continuum.

“mostly they were hired to play africans in films that glorified the empire” – in reference to black involvement in film and tv in the 1930s

“until the 1990s black women writers were unheard of in television drama with just two exceptions, Sylvia Wynter, who co-authored The Big Pride (1961) with her husband, Jan Carew, and Nigeria’s Buchi Emecheta, who wrote ‘the ju-ju landlord’ […] in 1967.”

 Ethnic group - census maps, ONS (2021) Office for National Statistics. Available at: https://www.ons.gov.uk/census/maps/choropleth/identity/ethnic-group/ethnic-group-tb-6a/white?msoa=E02005565 (Accessed: January 30, 2023).

“Fenland 95.9% white”

 Alibhai-Brown, Y. (2001) Who do we think we are?: Imagining the New Britain. London: Penguin, p. 259

Accusing Richard Curtis in Notting Hill of “whitening” the “most famously black area in London…its not that they don’t see us, but that film-makers don’t want us to litter up their olde worlde landscape. In this country 99 percent of films are written by white, middle-class people. We have no Spike Lee yet or Denzel Washington because the much-applauded British film industry has done nothing to make them happen.”

Wong, C.H. (2011) Film festivals culture, people, and power on the global screen. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press.

“film festivals play pivotal roles both in defining a shared cannon of “great” cinema and in adding cultural value to films”. Film festivals as arbiters of cinematic value – and the lack of diversity and rural inclusion shows clear systematic bias within the British film industry

“Festivals were active components of the film industry rather than mere backdrops in Mussolini’s promotion of Italian films in Venice”

“Since their origins, however, film festivals have actually been associated intensely with national film industries, visibility, and distribution.” – film festivals as reflections of a nation’s priorities (not rural areas and not diversity)

Nochimson, M.P. (2010) World On Film: An introduction. Chichester: Wiley-Blackwell.

“The kinds of stories that tend to be told within a national film culture and the way shots are composed and framed are determined by a common history, sometimes a common religion, and the main traditions of painting and literature that have evolved over time in a particular nation.” – how film creates and contributes to cultural capital

“ the relationships films from a national film culture form between the audience and the main characters involve the way individual identity is constructed within a particular national society, and how the sexual, family, racial, and economic values embedded within the culture are available for each person to define him or her self.” – how films can shape a national identity, influencing the racial views, and consequently the racial acceptance of a community.

The Central Committee of the Communist Party organized a conference around soviet filmmaking and came to the conclusion: “the feature film should become an instrument of communist education and agitation and a weapon of the party in the education and organization of the masses around the basic tasks in the period of building socialism”

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A list story but also using an old form of story to comment on older stories and forms.

Ideally in a list story it should build (add up if you will) to more than the sum of the list. The ending flows logically if somewhat predictably here from what came before. Which is fine. As Stephen Graham Jones say all horror stories are rom-coms. But better than surprise what the ending does is cast the preceding list in a very different light.

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Random Real Thoroughbred: MISNOMER

MISNOMER is a bay horse born in The United States in 1947. By ALIBHAI out of PROBABLY NOT. Link to their pedigreequery page: https://www.pedigreequery.com/misnomer

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Recruiting Foreign Health Staff

Recruiting Foreign Health Staff

Every foreign nurse gained by the NHS is a nurse lost to a poorer country. On November 8, 2022, in her column in I-News, Yasmin Alibhai-Brown took strong exception to comments made by Keir Starmer on BBC Scotland’s The Sunday Show.  Starmer had said that the NHS is “recruiting too many people from overseas” and we should be “training people in this country”. Ms Alibhai-Brown took this as an…

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OPINION

By Yasmin Alibhai-Brown

i columnist

Meghan and Harry’s Jubilee visit will confirm they were right to leave the UK

The undeniable racism that has been and still is directed at her, as well as the intrusiveness, never ends

June 1, 2022 6:44 am

FILE - This image provided by Harpo Productions shows Prince Harry, from left, and Meghan, Duchess of Sussex, during an interview with Oprah Winfrey. (Joe Pugliese/Harpo Productions via AP, File)

Yasmin Alibhai-Brown: ‘What the couple told Oprah Winfrey in that interview was absolutely true, which must be why patriotic Britons found it so intolerable’ (Photo: AP)

Dan Wootton, a GB News anchor and Daily Mail columnist tweeted this week: “I find it unimaginable that Meghan Markle would travel the length of the US for a tacky photo opportunity at the sight [sic] of the Uvalde school shooting but refuse to see her stroke-struck dad…”

Wootton, a wannabe Piers Morgan without the charm, tirelessly excoriates the mixed-race, beautiful, intelligent, world famous woman whom he has, I assume, never met. This week he invited her half-brother, a nonentity, on to his show to denounce his sister. Sadly their father is too ill to appear and do his bit to drag down his daughter.

Other sections of our media have also cursed Meghan for visiting the bereaved Uvalde families – the same lot who extolled the Duchess of Cambridge when she went to the vigil for Sarah Everard last March. That, apparently, was not a photo op, but proof that the future Queen cared deeply about the murdered woman and about female safety.

Over the next few days, when Meghan, Prince Harry and their children are here for the Platinum Jubilee, tabloid haters will go into a frenzy. Ignominies and infamies will be relentlessly piled on the couple. That is to be expected. Harry and Meghan have long been vilified far more and far more often than the real bad boy, Prince Andrew, who, it is rumoured, will be paraded by his mum who is keen on getting him re-established as a proper prince.

And the self-exiled family will once again understand that leaving was the right, indeed only, way to live a sane and happy life. The undeniable racism that has been and still is directed at her, as well as the intrusiveness, never ends.

Royalists and right-wing hacks say that she brought all this on herself. That the nation and the media rejoiced when the couple wedded in the bright sunshine. That there isn’t a whiff of racism in the way Meghan and Harry were and are treated by the “free press” and the Windsors, “who have done everything they could and more to welcome her in with open arms”.

Those are the words of a tabloid diarist I was on a programme with last year. A whiff? It’s a stench now, all around us, a stench no perfume or freshener can cover. Yes, newspapers and TV channels gave us countless pics and much tittle-tattle about the wedding, mostly because royal weddings cause a spike in sales and viewing figures.

What the couple told Oprah Winfrey in that interview was absolutely true, which must be why patriotic Britons found it so intolerable. Prince Harry candidly described the UK tabloid media as “bigoted” and accused it of creating a “toxic environment”.

He also, rightly, observed that racist and biased information about his wife “filters out to the rest of society”. And, furthermore, his birth family did not give them any support.

Two things to clarify here: I don’t think all tabloid journalists and editors are biased and cruel. I write for some of them. Secondly, some of the most bitter and prejudiced articles I have read on this couple were published in illustrious broadsheets.

In Revealing Britain’s Systemic Racism, a recently published book, sociologists Kimberley Ducey and Joe Feagin interrogate the myths about racial progressiveness in Britain.

Meghan Markle is a key case study, first presented as proof that the nation and the royals had become wonderfully inclusive and then, swiftly, turned into an ungrateful wretch and wicked witch. The authors observe that “the political is always personal for women of colour in the limelight” and argue that hers is a story of elite racism.

I think it is also a terrifying story of populism, of Britons being goaded into venting fury against a “coloured” royal, an interloper.

Just as unfair are the constant intrusions into Meghan’s life. What gives journalists and commentators the right to demand that she should placate her father, who did not raise her and who has insulted and stalked his child for money ever since her engagement?

In a recent interview, the broadcaster Kirsty Young said she had been long estranged from her birth father. I don’t see moralistic hacks going after her. Or the Scottish film and TV star Alan Cummings, who described his father as “tyrannical” and cut him out of his life. Why do Meghan’s father, half-sister and half-brother keep on blame-shaming her?

Perhaps, it’s her fame they want to share, perhaps her fortune, too. Perhaps they are envious. They may feel she owes them, but what? And why? Who knows? Not our business.

Meghan’s black mum, Doria Ragland, educated and self-contained, never publicly intervenes in her daughter’s life. But Markle, his son and daughter from his first marriage never stop. These career whingers get airtime, encouragement and credence. Meghan gets no respect and is trashed.

Even now, in so called post-racial Britain, white is right and black always suspect and shady.

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