Why is this the thing the country cares about bascally some guy did an onlyfans with someone of legal age? Is it creepy? Yup that’s a huge age gap. But looks like it’s had the nation on tenter hooks Reddit’s UK sub put a megathread up for what? Other than being the usual news outlet suckups they’ve turned that sub into. I havn’t paid attention to it but noticed the rags were full of this like some sort of whodunnit that they seemed to have a greasy pact for.
Far be it for me to suggest it’s diverted attention from Boris failing to hand over his mobile phone before the COVID inquiry deadline.
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/boris-johnson-covid-inquiry-whatsapps-b2372638.html
More likely that the economy is at the point of collapse. The mortgages story is the tip of the iceberg. UK’s value abroad has gone into freefall. Country’s economic value is at lowest point in entire history. No one in press or mainstream media reporting this.
Why is this the thing the country cares about
Because The Sun has run it on their front page four 4 days now and the coverage has been amplified by the rest of the Murdock outlets. They hate the BBC. The BBC News then had to run it front-and-centre to avoid it looking complascent/covering up. Meanwhile the mystery-identity angle sent social media into overdrive. It was a perfact storm.
The stench of homophobia hanging around this story is vile.
All today’s newspaper front pages (except The Star that ran something about Klingons travelling to Mars?) decided this is the biggest thing going on in the cuntry today. Meanwhile, Bank of England tells us that 1 million households will be paying an additional £500 a month on their mortgages and that it’s ok because the banks will be able to deal with all the defaults on payments.
This cuntry has lost the plot!
I’m not sure its homophobia, but people are noticing ANOTHER BBC presenter taking advantage of their position of power.
There’s no suggestion that he abused his position in the BBC over younger colleagues, is there? Or are you suggesting that any relationship between an older and younger person is immoral in some way?
There is:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-66165766
There are also accusations of inappropriate behaviour to BBC staff:
We’ll see. At the start of the week the allegations surrounding the story were that this was a “youngster” and that Edwards had acted illegally.
Meanwhile… the UK economy is collapsing and the media’s barely covering it.
Hysteria
The stench of homophobia hanging around this story
You what? Was there a new twist I missed?
The Sun… that virtuous newspaper that used to pay 16 year old girls to leave school so they could pose naked for Page 3… made it clear this was a male “star” and a boy. It’s a re-run of the Phillip Scofield nonsense. This wouldn’t be front page of all the papers and radio stations if it was an older man and a teenage young woman. Sure, they’ll be some coverage but not as much as this homophobic stuff
The Guardian supported slavery. What’s your point? I don’t think any of the people working there now were involved with that.
“Supported” isn’t correct (certainly not in the way that the Daily Mail supported Hitler and Moseley). The Manchester Guardian’s founder, John Taylor, drew on cotton investments based on slavery. This happened 200 years ago.
People working at The Sun today have been involved in Page 3. Topless pics in The Sun ended 8 years ago.
So the Guardian founder was actively involved in the slave trade? And the Guardian has benefitted directly from his involvement in slavery? All while painting themselves as bastions of morality?
Makes topless photos seem kind of tame.
Not sure why I’m trying to defend The Guardian - which I actually think is not much better than the rest of the media (I do hope you support reparations to the descendants of the enslaved seeing that you are rightly appalled at common British investments a couple of centuries ago).
I do think that trying to defend smutty pics of teens as tame while getting worked up about Huw Edwards allegedly paying for smutty pics of teens is contradictory, though.
I loved the way the story came through on my phone in breaking alerts in less than five minutes.
1: Police are taking no action 2: Wife says it’s my hubby Hew. 3: Wife says, he’s needing unwell and in hospital.
So are his news reading days over?
So are his news reading days over?
Difficult to say. If the mucky photos the teenager was laid to send him took place after their 18th birthday, if the threatening messages he sent on social media weren’t too sinister and if nothing else emerges now his name is well-known, he might be able to weather the storm and spin it as a redemption narrative then he might get a documentary out of it that’d clean his name up enough that he could be back behind the desk.
If he’s not acted illegally then what should he fear? His private life is his own.
Shame that the same witch-hunting standards aren’t adopted by the press when it comes to our former PM. Is that 9 children or as many as 14? (It’s ok though because Boris is a red hot-blooded “man’s man”).
If he’s not acted illegally then what should he fear? His private life is his own.
It kind of depends on the details. Also with a well-paid and high-profile figure like himself there may be a disrepute clause in his contract and, while he may not have acted illegally, the BBC may well decide that they have been muddied by their association with him.
Shame that the same witch-hunting standards aren’t adopted by the press when it comes to our former PM. Is that 9 children or as many as 14?
I feel there are many sticks to beat BoJo with and his sexual shenanigans isn’t one of the largest and weightiest of them.
I definitely think his career is over - I can’t see his reputation ever recovering from this, even if he could overcome the shame and embarrassment of going in front of the camera again.
Personally, as it appears that nothing illegal has occurred, I’d be perfectly happy to see him return to reading the news. He has a calming demeanour and is very good at what he does.
Now, whether he’d want to sit in front of the camera again is another thing.
That’s just it. Nothing unlawful seems to have occurred at this stage. Maybe he got a bit of Clarkson syndrome about his power and money, that remains to be seen.
But if this all fizzles out and he’s able to professionally (and mentally) recover from it, I’d be happy to see/hear him
orrsentythrpresent the news again (edit: keyboard went a bit psuedo-Welsh there ironically…) , when and if he is ready. It’d be like when Stephen Fry went missing and the nation was concerned for his wellbeing and return to public life.Now it’s just a sad story about personal lives being made public. At least the ‘young person’ is not in the public eye at the moment.
I propose the BBC need the role of noncefinder general.
He’s hardly a nonce
what do you call an old man who pays for nudes of teenagers?
A 1990s Sun reader?
Just for the record: the Sun ended Page 3 in 2015.
No “it was a different time” excuses wash yet.
Nonce has to be with someone who is 16 by legal definition, but an actual paedophile would probably target even younger children
Oh dear, I didn’t realise this was the British anime forum. Thanks for showing me the type of users that come here.
What? Someone who tries to engage in consensual sexual contact with people who are legal age are nowhere near as bad as actual monsters who prey on underage, often prepubescent children. You shouldn’t dilute the term “paedophile” or synonymns such as “nonce” to potentially meaning someone who can consent. Paedophiles are vile and sick monsters. Huw Edwards is weird by buying porn off of young adults but he isn’t a monster.
The anime “loli” weirdos make characters that look like 7 year olds and say they are 500 years old to try and cover their arse. That’s not what’s happening here.
