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British Broader Casting, please

Shock! Horror! The BBC has been accused of bias. Again. The current accusation has actually been admitted if not volunteered by the (fairly) new Beeb chairman, Sir Michael Lyons. This time it’s not been racist, or politically prejudiced, or ageist, or even sexist. It has …

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Colour Coordination For A School Picture (And We’re Not Talking About Attire)

Children, children, Londonist wants to play a little game with you: it’s called “How to make you cry in one single snapshot.” The rules are pretty simple: you come equipped with your best smiles for the next school piccie and we’ll wipe them off your …

Elsewhere In The Ist-a-verse

Gothamist learned about the craziest urban nightmare come true: A huge python found in the bathroom pipes. It was also a nightmare for some Yankees fans, as manger Joe Torre declined to come back and manage the Bronx Bombers. At least the city’s attempt to …

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Ethnic Minority Recruits Warned Off Met

It’s a bad news day for the Met as the unfortunate Det Sgt Gurpal Virdi publicly advises potential ethnic minority recruits to London’s police force

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Boris Speaks

A day after possibly the strongest entry for the most risible right-wing attempt at ‘humour’ since Jim Davidson was allowed near prime time television, Boris Johnson emerged from his summer holidays (it’s silly season all year round for him really) and set out his stall …

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I Hear You’re A Racist

Crikey! Boris Johnson has been accused of being a racist – again – this time by the New Nation newspaper, who have provided a handy cut out and keep guide (pictured) to the Tory mayoral hopeful’s ‘offensive remarks’ over the years. The historic problem with …

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Extra, Extra

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Mandela Sanctions ‘Blacking Up’

The phrase “it’s PC gone mad!” usually comes from the mouths of those such as Bernard Manning, taxi drivers and the hairdresser who just cut this Londonista’s hair who used the phrase with regard to immigrant children being allowed to go to ‘our’ schools. Yikes. …

Elsewhere in the Ist-iverse

With the sun out, the temperatures high, one can only think of one thing– what’s going on in the World of the -ist’s? Bostonist dug deep to uncover Barack Obama’s unpaid parking tickets, their Governor’s latest ethical lapse, and a plagarizing sports writer. Chicagoist had …

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Blogjammin’

We love BBC America’s anglophenia because it’s always interesting to see what the other side of the pond thinks about the happenings in our own little goldfish bowl. This post, however, tackled a more serious subject than the usual pop culture geography when anglophenia popped …

Extra, Extra

Gun crime suspect was found cowering in a shed An Aboriginal leader is on his way to London to stop scientists from drilling holes into his ancestors. House of Fraser have removed a major advertising campaign after complaints that the slogans were racist. A “crippling” …