Walliams’s behaviour is vile and despicable, but I think you ought to be careful about the sexual relationship with a 15 year old comment - as does the media. The girl in question has said she first wrote to Walliams when she was 15, but sexual relations started when she was 17.
David Walliams has just released one of the most sickeningly calculated PR statements I have ever read, and he only did it because the High Court finally threw out his expensive legal injunction to keep his name a secret.
ITV and The Guardian have officially named him as the of preying on girls as young as 15.
Look at the exact language his crisis managers instructed him to publish today. He claims he simply behaved "thoughtlessly" during "casual sexual relationships" and regrets not taking people's feelings into account. He admits to a power imbalance but insists he never abused it.
You do not have a casual, thoughtless sexual relationship with a 15-year-old. You cannot dismiss allegations of preying on teenagers as just being a bit clumsy with women's emotions.
We are watching the exact same playbook we just saw collapse in Southwark Crown Court.
Another untouchable television darling, protected for decades by a complicit media, using high-priced lawyers to gag the press while trying to reframe predatory behavior as a minor lifestyle quirk.
The darkest part of this entire scandal is how the British entertainment industry operates.
They knew exactly who these men were. They did not just cover for them. They handed them prime-time family television slots, gave them awards, and literally published their children's books, all while leaving young girls to deal with the trauma in total silence.
The expensive legal injunctions are finally failing. The dam is breaking, and the networks that enabled them are going to have nowhere left to hide.
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@Ed_Miliband and @andyburnham WHAT are you doing about Gazans starving and weeping in the rain? Your silence is a crime against humanity.
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I spent two years working with Stephen Miller.
His appointment as White House chief of staff is among the most dangerous personnel decisions in the history of our republic.
I say that without reservation.
His appointment as White House chief of staff is among the most dangerous personnel decisions in the history of our republic.
I say that without reservation.
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Yusuf isn’t an MP but is treated like one on this programme - I’ve never known anything like it!
Genuine question - can anyone in their lifetime, remember any political party with 8 seats in parliament being given the media/airtime that these grifters are given? #BBCQT
Genuine question - can anyone in their lifetime, remember any political party with 8 seats in parliament being given the media/airtime that these grifters are given? #BBCQT
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"I should just point out that this is the ninth time we have invited unelected gobshite Zia Yusuf onto Question Time."
#bbcqt
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I don’t think I ever believed I’d see a newspaper paragraph like this: President Trump ‘said he would welcome immigrants from Denmark but not from Norway “because I didn’t get the Nobel Prize, so I don’t want anybody from Norway”.’
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In New York he met and married Trude, another emigre and took on a second career as a sports presenter. His character appears in my play about Jura Soyfer; ‘Astoria’ and I filmed an interview with Trude not long before she died. Extraordinarily times and people.
Musician, composer, lyricist and journalist Jimmy Berg was born #OTD in 1909. In collaboration with Jura Soyfer, he wrote music and cabarets. In 1933 and in 1938 he had to flee Nazi Germany eventually emigrating to the US.
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In the 71 years I have lived in this world, with all the terrible things that have happened, I’d be hard put to find anything more terrible than Trump’s existence. Not content with trashing his country and robbing its people, his treasonous support of Putin could destroy us all.
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Samrat is a unique talent. He played at a house concert for us last year and the audience is still talking about it.
Happy World Guitar Day! 🎸
Here's Samrat Majumder playing Sor's Grand Solo, Op. 14, written over 200 years ago and one of the classical guitar's defining works.
Catch Samrat at @wigmore_hall Hall on Tue 3 Nov in our Lunchtime Series
Link in our bio ✨
#YCATartists
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So it's official. Reuters has confirmed that the White House gave the order to disrupt Starlink so Russia could attack Kiev with no advanced warning. The US aided & abetted Putin's killings of numerous civilians in Ukraine. Trump is a traitor, a Russian asset, helping our enemy.
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“Let me die,” American photojournalist Heidi Levine repeats to journalists Jasper Nathaniel as they try to outrun masked Israeli settlers who attacked her on Friday while she covered the olive harvest in the West Bank village of Abu Falah, near Ramallah.
Around 80 settlers ive harvesters in the village, AP reported. The Palestinian Red Crescent said it treated six people injured in two attacks in Abu Falah.
Levine, a freelancer for the Washington Post, told the Committee to Protect Journalists that the settlers knocked her down and kicked her for at least 10 minutes, even after she identified herself as an American journalist. They stole her camera, phone and bag. She was eventually taken to a hospital in Ramallah.
"The IDF provided cover, with tear gas and machine guns, while the settlers beat" Levine "nearly to death," Nathaniel wrote, adding that soldiers then shot a Palestinian bystander and aimed their guns at and shoved paramedics trying to treat him. AP photos and circulating videos show Israeli soldiers standing over a wounded Palestinian man after they shot him.
Andrey X, an activist also at the scene, said a Palestinian man "saved our lives from the settler-terrorists who attacked the olive harvesters and journalists” armed only with a slingshot.
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Around 80 settlers ive harvesters in the village, AP reported. The Palestinian Red Crescent said it treated six people injured in two attacks in Abu Falah.
Levine, a freelancer for the Washington Post, told the Committee to Protect Journalists that the settlers knocked her down and kicked her for at least 10 minutes, even after she identified herself as an American journalist. They stole her camera, phone and bag. She was eventually taken to a hospital in Ramallah.
"The IDF provided cover, with tear gas and machine guns, while the settlers beat" Levine "nearly to death," Nathaniel wrote, adding that soldiers then shot a Palestinian bystander and aimed their guns at and shoved paramedics trying to treat him. AP photos and circulating videos show Israeli soldiers standing over a wounded Palestinian man after they shot him.
Andrey X, an activist also at the scene, said a Palestinian man "saved our lives from the settler-terrorists who attacked the olive harvesters and journalists” armed only with a slingshot.
x.com/NTarnopolsky/s…
To be clear, the only reason I was able to reach Heidi was because young Palestinians provided cover with rocks against machine-gun- and tear-gas-wielding settlers and soldiers. It’s those kids, not the settler terrorists, who the IDF was hunting after the attack.
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I wonder if any GOP senator, yet alone a democrat will ever have the backbone to publicly call Trump out for what he plainly is - a traitor. Back in the day traitors faced firing squads, now they run countries, exude hatred and destroy the world order. All to get even richer.
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Let us all hope & pray (and VOTE) that such a person never gets anywhere near government.🤞🏻
We will cut the arts & culture budget by £1bn in order to fund 50,000 prison places. Keeping rapists and other dangerous offenders locked up is a priority for the @Conservatives. We will always put community safety first.
@RichmoMusic If you need help understanding the numbers, please don’t hesitate to get in touch. Always happy to talk you through.
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BREAKING: Billionaire Sir Richard Branson unleashes a SCORCHING attack on Trump and his disgusting cozying up to Russian dictator Vladimir Putin.
This is EXACTLY the kind of thing that gets under Trump's skin...
"I thought I’d never have to say this in my lifetime, but this is is what it used to be," Branson, the founder of Virgin Group, wrote on LinkedIn. "The Trump administration has become an appeaser to autocrats and dictators, putting their personal whims before the best interests of the American people and those of the free world. What is it about Putin that President Trump fawns over?"
"How will America’s allies ever be able to trust this administration again when they are now turning against them at a time of war and suffering?" he asked.
Trump has repeatedly betrayed our Ukrainian allies in recent days. First, he announced a stunning deal with Putin to allow millions of barrels of diesel into the global markets, a move that will directly pump money into the Russian war machine. Then, he began a concerted smear campaign against President Zelenskyy and said that Putin is easier to deal with.
The backstabbing escalated when Washington failed to provide its usual early warning to Kyiv of an incoming Russian ballistic missile attack. Now, it appears that the White House ordered a temporary disruption of Starshield, a military version of Elon Musk's Starlink that the Ukrainian armed forces rely upon.
"The slowdown of Starlink/Starshield and the inexplicable lack of advance warning of Russian missile launches have already caused Ukrainian civilians to die unnecessarily," wrote Branson. "How much worse can it get?"
"If one thing is clear it’s that European leaders must overcome the initial shock about Trump’s recent actions and step up to the plate. It’s as much about Europe’s freedom as it is about Ukraine’s sovereignty. Both are worth fighting for," he continued. "All options should be on the table now, from the transfer of frozen Russian assets to Ukraine to the delivery of advanced weapons systems such as Germany’s Taurus."
"Why oh why is this happening? We cannot let the free world be dismantled before our very eyes," Branson concluded.
We couldn't agree more. Trump is an enemy to Ukraine, an enemy to democracy, and an enemy to the American people. When Democrats retake power, we have our work cut out for us. Every last trace of this monstrous man's legacy must be erased.
Please ❤️ and share if you think that Trump is Putin's puppet!
This is EXACTLY the kind of thing that gets under Trump's skin...
"I thought I’d never have to say this in my lifetime, but this is is what it used to be," Branson, the founder of Virgin Group, wrote on LinkedIn. "The Trump administration has become an appeaser to autocrats and dictators, putting their personal whims before the best interests of the American people and those of the free world. What is it about Putin that President Trump fawns over?"
"How will America’s allies ever be able to trust this administration again when they are now turning against them at a time of war and suffering?" he asked.
Trump has repeatedly betrayed our Ukrainian allies in recent days. First, he announced a stunning deal with Putin to allow millions of barrels of diesel into the global markets, a move that will directly pump money into the Russian war machine. Then, he began a concerted smear campaign against President Zelenskyy and said that Putin is easier to deal with.
The backstabbing escalated when Washington failed to provide its usual early warning to Kyiv of an incoming Russian ballistic missile attack. Now, it appears that the White House ordered a temporary disruption of Starshield, a military version of Elon Musk's Starlink that the Ukrainian armed forces rely upon.
"The slowdown of Starlink/Starshield and the inexplicable lack of advance warning of Russian missile launches have already caused Ukrainian civilians to die unnecessarily," wrote Branson. "How much worse can it get?"
"If one thing is clear it’s that European leaders must overcome the initial shock about Trump’s recent actions and step up to the plate. It’s as much about Europe’s freedom as it is about Ukraine’s sovereignty. Both are worth fighting for," he continued. "All options should be on the table now, from the transfer of frozen Russian assets to Ukraine to the delivery of advanced weapons systems such as Germany’s Taurus."
"Why oh why is this happening? We cannot let the free world be dismantled before our very eyes," Branson concluded.
We couldn't agree more. Trump is an enemy to Ukraine, an enemy to democracy, and an enemy to the American people. When Democrats retake power, we have our work cut out for us. Every last trace of this monstrous man's legacy must be erased.
Please ❤️ and share if you think that Trump is Putin's puppet!
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