Well we’re enjoying it, just reached for an extra bottle of🍷

All of the above … and Maple Syrup by the litre!

Good Scotland win over Tonga but 6 Nations will tell all. Today - Arsenal v Spurs on the big screen and England v Argentina on laptop. Fun all round … and oval.

Yep! 3 rugby and bits of 2 football ... and 2 + 2 tomorrow! a veritable feast.

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I hasten to add, as was the case the other way round during the Empire), has Sarah Pochin deeply troubled." I hope you get my drift!

The deep irony of this is that it was of course absolutely fine for 100s of years for the non-representative white-skinned people to rule over people of colour but now, even the mere presence of people of colour in ads or on our screens (not even ruling over white people,

Why does a non-white skin colour signify for her, 'not me'? Why isn't she equally worried about the colour of people's eyes (as Marcus Garvey and Bob Marley once put it)?
That question is of course entirely twisted up with the history of Empire, imperialism and a hierarchical view of humanity.

"All legitimate questions, surely?
If they're not, why then the anxiety, expressed by Sarah Pochin about skin colour? It's only one feature out of thousands that we human beings possess.

"What about the possibility of there being 'too many' small people in the movie and TV business?
Are there too many people who wear glasses and contact lenses?
Are the people on TV a fair representation of the national average for Body Fat Index?

At the root of it, is how and why we ring fence this group or that group.
Let's see where I can go with this,
Is there research on there being 'too many' or 'too few' dog-owners on our TV screens? Are there people checking to see if they are over- or under- represented on TV.

"the moment a politician or commentator complains in terms of the 'too many' label on a group, it's possible to see that it involves a a form of ring-fencing round a group according to the prejudices of the complainer.

I disagree with you but Michael Rosen put it much better than I could; "Thoughts on Sarah Pochin and her comment on there being too many people of colour in ads and on TV:

18ºC @ 08.00 in the 'burgh these days. Happy to hide indoors watching tennis in the afternoon.

Which is precisely NOT what she was being asked about.

All will be well? Basking in the evening sunshine in Crieff, watching Alcaraz v Munar @ Queen’s. 3rd set beckons!

Not as bad as the “mighty rough road from Lynchburg …” I hope.

He did indeed ; safe home bro’.

Sadly true … Siobhan Kennedy (Ch4) (ab)used her chance to ask #47 a question about the trade deal and jumped on chlorinated chicken ffs! Pure cluckbait.