"Exonerated" (His Honour Judge Nathan Adams, Durham Crown Court, 8 May 2025). Two-time political prisoner. Beaten up in prison, so I fear only God. Activist, journalist, hymn-writer, emerging thinktanker, aspiring novelist, "tribal elder", 2019 parliamentary candidate for North West Durham, Shadow Leader of the Opposition, "Speedboat", "The Cockroach".
Saturday, 8 November 2008
Dizzee With Anger
Apparently, the "correct" spelling is "Dizzee Rascal".
Still, it seems that I was not the only person who objected to his depiction by the BBC as the voice of black Britain, and as the first black Prime Minister in waiting.
Personally, I thought Dizzee Rascal came out of the interview rather well, given the offensively patronising and borderline racist line of questioning that he was subjected to.
I normally admire Jeremy Paxman hugely, but when he's visibly out of his depth (as he also was last year when grilling Richard Eyre about the then very recently deceased Ingmar Bergman) he's frankly embarrassing.
As indeed are people who bang on about whether Dizzee Rascal is a suitable interviewee for Newsnight when it's blindingly obvious that they'd never even heard of him before said interview and are therefore in no position to judge his credentials. I'm certainly no expert, but I have heard his debut Boy In Da Corner, and it's got a damn sight more to say about modern Britain than half the rubbish that gets fêted to the skies.
"I have heard his debut Boy In Da Corner, and it's got a damn sight more to say about modern Britain than half the rubbish that gets fêted to the skies."
Personally, I thought Dizzee Rascal came out of the interview rather well, given the offensively patronising and borderline racist line of questioning that he was subjected to.
ReplyDeleteI normally admire Jeremy Paxman hugely, but when he's visibly out of his depth (as he also was last year when grilling Richard Eyre about the then very recently deceased Ingmar Bergman) he's frankly embarrassing.
As indeed are people who bang on about whether Dizzee Rascal is a suitable interviewee for Newsnight when it's blindingly obvious that they'd never even heard of him before said interview and are therefore in no position to judge his credentials. I'm certainly no expert, but I have heard his debut Boy In Da Corner, and it's got a damn sight more to say about modern Britain than half the rubbish that gets fêted to the skies.
"I have heard his debut Boy In Da Corner, and it's got a damn sight more to say about modern Britain than half the rubbish that gets fêted to the skies."
ReplyDeleteI don't doubt that for one moment.