Professional Footballers� Association demand Reginald D Hunter money back following 'offensive' routine at awards
Ben Rumsby
30 Apr 2013
torygraph.co.uk
PFA deputy chief executive Bobby Barnes confirmed lawyers for the organisation had contacted the London Speaker Bureau, through which Hunter was booked. Barnes told Telegraph Sport: �We are in discussions with our lawyer and our lawyer is in discussion with the London Speaker Bureau, who we booked him through.�
Hunter is being pursued for what effectively amounts to a breach of a verbal contract over a performance that saw the black American comedian from Georgia repeatedly use the word �nigger� and make potentially-offensive jokes about Jews and women. It is thought he was paid a five-figure fee to perform a 10-minute turn at the lavish Grosvenor House hotel in Mayfair, which hosted what is traditionally one of English football�s biggest galas.
�Whatever he was paid was too much.� Barnes said. �We are obviously very upset, because he was briefed. We are very aware that very have a very diverse audience there. I was sat there with Jewish friends on my table as well, and it was as if he...
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Nice one, someone gave me that link on facebook last week and then the post was deleted and I couldn't find it in my history.
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Tom Conti - Collar The Lot
Actor Tom Conti explores the story of Italian internment in Britain during the Second World War.
On June 10th 1940, Mussolini declared war on Britain and France. Overnight, as a result, the thousands of Italians living in Britain were declared enemies, considered a potential threat. Winston Churchill ordered the authorities to 'collar the lot' of so-called 'enemy aliens' and over four thousand Italians were rounded up and imprisoned. Most were shopkeepers, hairdressers, ice cream sellers and respectable citizens at the heart of their communities. Many had been in Britain all their lives.
We hear from some of the very few still alive, who were taken from families, jobs and homes to makeshift camps across the UK. Tom Conti's own father was an Italian who had made a life in Scotland. He was married to a Scottish woman and ran a successful business in ladies' hairdressing. The day after Italy declared war he was taken from his home, and interned on...
I've been to South Korea many times for work in the past. Almost went to the DMZ once for a tour, but decided to see a temple instead. I'm unlikely to go again, as my job changed. Probably not a bad thing. I don't think I'd feel very comfortable there now. These N. Korean politicians and servicemen look like a dangerous bunch of deluded nutters and it seems there is a real chance that one of them is going to push a button some day.
