PoliticsUK: Labour Party: Shadow home secretary challenges superior on Asian men systematically targeting white girls

young home-secretary shadow

disagrees with Labour old-timer's  

race comments

ePolitix [ Jan11,2k11]

Shadow home secretary Ed Balls has said that his Labour colleague Jack Straw was wrong to claim that groups of Asian men are systematically targeting white girls for abuse.

Giving evidence to the home affairs select committee, Balls was asked his view. 

As children's secretary in the last government he had to deal with the Baby P scandal.

He told the commmittee that in his "years of experience of child protection" he has "never seen a pattern" based on the race of the abused or the abusers. 

"To suggest it is a cultural issue is not my view," he added.

Former home secretary Straw spoke up after two men of Asian origin were convicted of raping and sexually assaulting girls in Derby.

"There is a specific problem which involves Pakistani heritage men... who target vulnerable young white girls," he claimed.

"We need to get the Pakistani community to think much more clearly about why this is going on and to be more open about the problems that are leading to a number of Pakistani heritage men thinking it is OK to target white girls in this way."


- unsigned, posted by Politicarp

Internet: 3 countries: Venezuela titens, UK finesses porn on net, USA muddles 'net neutrality'

Five recent URLs pertinent to regulation of the internet in various countries:

Venezuela:   Chavez defends plan for Internet regulations [Dec19,2k10]

UK:   Broadband firms urged to block sex websites to protect children Government wants BT, Virgin and other internet providers to put access to pornography on 'opt-in' basis

USA:  The FCC's Threat to Internet Freedom:  Net neutrality' sounds nice, but the Web is working fine now. The new rules will inhibit investment, deter innovation and create a billable-hours bonanza for lawyers.

USA federal democrats: Democrats put heat on FCC commissioner on net neutrality vote

USA federal deomocrats on FCC:  EXCLUSIVE: FCC Dems narrowing net neutraility gaps

-- Politicarp, refWrite frontpage columnist

The foregoing blog-entry is cross-posted to refWrite refBlogger Insert.

BroadcastingUK: Christian lobby: Christian Broadcasting Council gathering w Annual Media Awards Dinner

Today and tomorrow: Christian Broadcasting Council [UK] is a voluntary Christian association of Brits that lobbies in an organ+zd way and conducts programmes off air (like the latest of the upcoming Awards Dinners) whereby CBC tri+s to get more Christian content on the BBC from its own BBC programmers and BBC-contracted professionals (a w+dning of professional-ethical horizons to overcome what I lump together as "dilletante indifferentism" regarding the religiocultural role of Christianity in the past, present and futre of Great Britain), all this in CBC UK's spirit of public broadcasting, not tr+ing to get christian-content sellers (producers, investors, etc.) a dedicated ear at CBC.  But when independent production offers The Hobbit, The Narnia Tales, and others (there shoud be a movie version of Charles Wiliiam's Talliessin thru Logres with the verse narrated above the viz sequencing in approprioate places).  And, of course, others.

  

Anyway, the Christian Broadcasting Council has a primary strategy of one-on-one, as in basketball.  This is appropriate in so vast a sphere as public communications and the interplay of today's media via the Net, Blogging (including refBloggers like Steve Bishop, Paul Robinson, Rudi Hayward, reformationalUK -- and reformational webs+ts like those of WYSOCKS (Leeds), Kirby Laing Institute (Cambridge), and Andrew Basden's The Dooyeweerd Pages out of Salford U, Greater Manchester), and nowadays we can't leave out of the interplay and tie-in uses of mobile devices (SnartPhones, iPod, iPad, Blackberry) in conjunction with social media like Twitter and Facebook.  1-on-1-ing BBC takes CBC into realms of reflection on the shifting role of radio and TV in the media constellation that is always reshaping in these days.

Cry Freedom! Britain on the brink ... is the theme for this year's CBC Annual Conference for all Christians in the Media, of which the CBC Annual Media Awards Dinner is an outstanding event open to all professionals, awards open to younger generations of artists, with CEO Olave Snelling pres+ding.

The conference, dinner, and awards presentations will take place this year at The River Centre, Tonbridge, Kent, England. www.cbc,org.uk

-- Politicarp, using CBC materials

OOPS!

CONFERENCE NEWS
2.12.10 - 11am We are disappointed to have to POSTPONE the conference due to adverse weather conditions which have worsened as the day goes on. We are planning to move the conference to March 2011 and combine it with our Media Awards. Details coming soon.