Unspiked

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Ophelia Benson

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No doubt he’s relishing the attention.

A Jeremy Clarkson column in the Sun about the Duchess of Sussex has provoked outcry online, with social media users labelling it “vile”, “horrific” and “abusive”.

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The comments have drawn widespread condemnation. The comedian John Bishop tweeted that the remarks were a “blatant appeal to incite humiliation and violence on a woman” and the actor Kathy Burke called Clarkson a “colossal cunt”.

How stupid is that? Horrible man says horrible things about a woman, a different woman angrily calls him a woman’s genitalia. A cunt never raped anyone; dicks on the other hand…

The 5 Live presenter Rachel Burden tweeted: “So … there’s Jeremy Clarkson writing what he did. And then the editor deciding to publish it.”

That. The Sun didn’t spike it.

I wonder if Spiked will defend it.

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3 responses to “Unspiked”

  1. Naif Avatar
    Naif

    It is the S*n. There is no depths that publication will not sink to, no barrel they will not scrape. It has been despicable for generations. Just read about the newspaper reported on the Hillsborough disaster, blaming the victims for decades. There is a reason it is close to impossible to buy it on Merseyside.

  2. Harald Hanche-Olsen Avatar
    Harald Hanche-Olsen

    no barrel they will not scrape

    or dig right through the bottom of which and keep going …

  3. Rob Avatar
    Rob

    So I saw the excerpt below on STUFF, but apparently sourced originally from Us Weekly, whatever that is.

    Metropolitan Police chief Sir Mark Rowley telling British talk-back show LBC officers would not be launching a probe into the television star.

    “The police should only get involved when speech becomes threatening or incites violence – we’re not there to police people’s ethics,” Rowley said.

    “There’s a line to be drawn. It’s not for police to get involved in anything that’s about ‘is something ethical, is it moral, is it proper, is it offensive?’.

    “The legal lines are only crossed, generally, when things are said that are intended or likely to stir up or incite violence.”

    Rowley said he didn’t believe Clarkson crossed a line, but police will be keeping “a close eye on it.”

    So, Mr Rowley, why is exposing violence and hatred against a women something that is (merely) about ethics, morals, properness, and offensiveness; but not a legal offence for Police to get involved in? Why is a women saying a man can’t self-identify into being a woman suddenly something that warrants Police action? I think Rowley is attempting to be a mealy mouth cake eater/haver.

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