Footballer Marcus Rashford fights for free school meals

[not-bono-ever]

no more hopkins tweets please. its what she wants

 

[MrSki]

Words almost fail me. Just about manage cunt.

Edit to add this seems to be a fake article but will leave it here for context.

 

[editor]

Words almost fail me. Just about manage cunt.

Where does this stream of diarrhoea droplets come from?

 

[MrSki]

Where does this stream of diarrhoea droplets come from?

The Spectator.

 

[editor]

The Spectator.

 

[two sheds]

Studies prove that extreme starvation to be beneficial to Spectator editors, encouraging feelings of compassion and understanding.

 

[planetgeli]

Words almost fail me. Just about manage cunt.

Good grief. Read from the top down (as you do) and before halfway was thinking RCP/Spiked/LOL (yes, LOL, that's how I always see that thread) - so getting to the bottom and seeing 'Brendan O'Neill' was the least surprising thing about my day so far.

 

[NoXion]

Studies prove that extreme starvation to be beneficial to Spectator editors, encouraging feelings of compassion and understanding.

Fuckin' beat me to it! What a piece of filth.

 

[editor]

Studies prove that extreme starvation to be beneficial to Spectator editors, encouraging feelings of compassion and understanding.

Facebook is telling me that the article is fake.

 

[MrSki]

Where does this stream of diarrhoea droplets come from?

Actually I am not sure. It is possibly fake.

 

[MrSki]

Facebook is telling me that the article is fake.

Yeah I have just been looking into it & came to the same conclusion.

 

[planetgeli]

Facebook is telling me that the article is fake.

Yes I think you're right.

But he's all too easy to satirise I'm not going to spend a second feeling sorry for the twat.

 

[two sheds]

Facebook is telling me that the article is fake.

Fair play, my comment still applies to ex editors though

 

[not-bono-ever]

not on the spectator site. i have just waded through the sewerage to check it over

 

[NoXion]

Of all the commentwatterati I would expect it to be O'Neill who would come out with such shit. The satirist chose their target well.

 

[baldrick]

That's the second bit of 'fake news' that's been posted on this thread that I've noticed.

Fair enough that people point it out quickly but I've noticed a general increase in this sort of thing on the boards. It's not good really is it? What's causing it? Are people so keen to be the first to add something new to the thread that they don't engage their critical thinking skills or what?

 

[Lord Camomile]

That's the second bit of 'fake news' that's been posted on this thread that I've noticed.

Fair enough that people point it out quickly but I've noticed a general increase in this sort of thing on the boards. It's not good really is it? What's causing it? Are people so keen to be the first to add something new to the thread that they don't engage their critical thinking skills or what?

Sometimes our critical thinking skills fail us anyway

But aye, agree with the general point.

 

[Pickman's model]

Facebook is telling me that the article is fake.

Yeh their real opinions are viler

 

[MrSki]

That's the second bit of 'fake news' that's been posted on this thread that I've noticed.

Fair enough that people point it out quickly but I've noticed a general increase in this sort of thing on the boards. It's not good really is it? What's causing it? Are people so keen to be the first to add something new to the thread that they don't engage their critical thinking skills or what?

I apologise for posting this. I saw it floating around on twitter yesterday but did not post it. When it was still there today I presumed it was genuine. It is not the first time I have posted up something that turns out to be factually incorrect & will try to be more careful in the future.

 

[William of Walworth]

Fucking brilliant stuff. And he's just 22 years old.
Marcus Rashford : Food voucher U-turn after footballer's campaign

Can anyone remember what the PM was doing at 22?

(Apologies for reposting that vile picture) .... I was hoping to answer stavros 's question literally. It's just see the picture though, because my search failed (as in what exactly was Boris Johnson doing when he was 22?)
Still, here's a reference to something he wrote twelve years later ....

As for the prime minister … shortly before Marcus Rashford was born to a single mother who he idolises for her tireless work and sacrifices, Boris Johnson was writing that single mothers were producing a generation of “ill-raised, ignorant, aggressive and illegitimate children”. Which, let’s face it, means so much more coming from him.

 

[Bahnhof Strasse]

An honorary doctorate from the University of Manchester, the youngest person ever to be awarded one from there

 

[GarveyLives]

I believe you will find that he is the same Marcus Rashford who is referred to in these earlier news reports:

Manchester United's Marcus Rashford target of racist abuse on Twitter

Marcus Rashford: Racism 'spike' is unbelievable - Man Utd & England striker

'This has to stop': Paul Pogba and Marcus Rashford join calls for change

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England footballer, Marcus Rashford with his mother Melanie. In May 2016, aged just 18 years and 208 days, Rashford became the youngest player to score on his England full international debut. Young Rashford has stated: 'My mum would go days without sleeping, worrying about how she would cover the next round of bills, worried that I could get in trouble, mixing with the wrong crowds, if she couldn’t keep her eyes on me while working every hour of the day. Even at seven or eight years old I recognised her worry, but I also recognised that she was trying her best. I’ve said it once and I will say it again: this system was not built for families like mine to succeed, no matter how hard we are working.'

Marcus Rashford has won the Premier League Academy Graduate award for the 2019/20 season after playing an inspirational role on and off the pitch

Marcus Rashford returns to ‘day job’ after attaining cult hero status with activism

(Source: as stated in image)

Rashford helped out at a factory by loading up food with other workers of FareShare

(Source: as stated in image)

Marcus Rashford (centre) poses with other workers of the charity FareShare ​

 

[GarveyLives]

Marcus Rashford scores cover of British Vogue's September issue

(Source: as stated in image)​

 

[SpookyFrank]

Marcus Rashford scores cover of British Vogue's September issue

(Source: as stated in image)​

Just a pity they couldn't find any clothes that fit him

 

[GarveyLives]

Marcus Rashford scores cover of British Vogue's September issue

(Source: as stated in image)​

Three months after he forced a government U-turn on summer holiday school meal vouchers, Marcus Rashford has set his sights on a bigger target - the end of child food poverty in Britain.

Marcus Rashford brings food brand giants together to tackle child food poverty

 

[Petcha]

I follow him on Twitter. He's the real deal. His feed is entirely different to any other footballer out there.

He actually gives a shit, particularly about younguns. He must have a very proud mum.

 

[Streathamite]

get in bed with the celebs and preferably ones the tories can’t label as cosmopolitan elites to generate change and publicity.

Aren't ALL celebs, easy to label as such, by definition?

 

[Badgers]

Rashford has got a fucking nerve wading into this

Could undo ten years of hard work by the government

 

[Streathamite]

(Apologies for reposting that vile picture) .... I was hoping to answer stavros 's question literally. It's just see the picture though, because my search failed (as in what exactly was Boris Johnson doing when he was 22?)
Still, here's a reference to something he wrote twelve years later ....

good spot, that Marina Hyde article

 

[Artaxerxes]

Aren't ALL celebs, easy to label as such, by definition?

It is quite funny hearing the line rolled out so often by a man who spent his years in Eton and working for major newspapers while being paid a triple figure sum.

The mans clearly not one of the elite...