Carol Thatcher has been barred from the One Show after being reported for a racist comment. More to follow. Full story HERE Update: It looks like this was a private joke blown out of proportion by the PC brigade. I think Carol was being a naive comparing the tennis player to a Golliwog, but I'm sure there was no racist intent. However, some will scream racism no matter what.

I just received an e-mail from the Guy Earle comedy benefit, on right now in Toronto. Jason Kenney, the federal cabinet minister and Secretary of State for Multiculturalism and Canadian Identity, is there, along with his Director of Communications, Alykhan Velshi. I have no information about the event itself -- whether the comics are funny; how political they are; what Earle himself said by way of...

There’s an interesting update on Harry’s Place. It states that Joe Quinn, author of the article to which Jenna Delich linked on the UCU email list and thus precipitated the now well-known squabble that has spread across the net, has responded to HP’s allegations. Apparently he claims not to be a racist and to have

From the BBC Press Office: BAFTA award-winning comedy producer Jane Berthoud has been appointed Head of Radio Comedy at the BBC, it was announced today by Mark Freeland, Head of Comedy, BBC Production. She will be the first woman to hold the post. Jane has worked in BBC Comedy for 14 years, six of...

Joanna Lumley emails: I have some great news about the Gurkha Justice campaign that I want to update you on. Firstly, we now have over 120,000 online signatures with over 20,000 returned in the post. If you haven't done so already, please spread the word to all your online contacts and ask them to sign up online too at www.gurkhajustice.org.uk Second, there have been some exciting steps forward in...

Local newspaper The Inverness Courier carries a report from local police body Northern Constabulary that there has been a dramatic rise of 72.9 per cent in racist attacks in Inverness this year. The main targets of these incidents are English people, with next in line for targetting being Poles, of whom there are significant numbers in and around Inverness in recent years. There are divergent

What exactly is "racist content"? Who decides and on what criteria? "Twelve British National Party activists have been arrested in Liverpool on suspicion of handing out racist leaflets claiming that "our people" are experiencing an "epidemic of racist violence, sexual exploitation and murder" by Muslims. The leaflet alleges the "average racist killer" is 40 times more likely to be from an ethnic m...

If you attended a tea party to protest your government's off the charts spending and massive taxation, you're simply a redneck racist. At least that's what failed comedienne and failed Air America talk show host Janeane Garafolo and Keith Olbermann over at MSNBC think...if that's the operative word: "Let's be very honest about what this is about. This is not about bashing ...

I should be in a position to say that this is shocking, but it really isn't. perhaps there is legitimacy to the claim that racism is invoked to often, maybe there isn't. But the point remains that some views and ideologies are racist, and seeing as these things are racist, the best word to describe them is probably... yes, you guessed it, racist. Now, it being a vibrant multiracial democ...

Such is the horror of the end result of a successful suicide attack, few have so far attempted to turn perhaps the ultimate act of personal violence into comedy: Monkey Dust, the dark BBC3 animated satire, had hapless Brummies blowing themselves up, while Chris Morris now has his jihadist comedy in film production, having been giving funding by Warp Films. It's all the more surprising because...