To my abusers, though, I was defending the wrong British Asian man against the actions of another British Asian man, while at the same time not quite sharing their opinions about another British Asian man.
Chris Waters, Yorkshire Post.
Waking up with a fuzzy head last Saturday morning, a quick look at the headlines in the local paper made me wonder if the chill in the air meant it was April 1st.
If only I had a quid for every headline about Odsal over the years? When will they ever question one of these PR releases that have as much validity as The Pyongyang Daily?
A quick Google search revealed the cost of the roof alone over a tennis court at Wimbledon was circa £80-100m. The new Tottenham Hotspur football ground is estimated at circa £850m. So what would £20m get you; a new sausage hut?
Several other announcements are just a rehash of previous ones.
For instance, Bingley Pool has been left to rot whilst Squire Lane got a £20m leisure centre including a pool largely because the local folks all vote for a certain party, assuming some know who they are voting for.
There is a suggestion that the pool will not now happen because the costs of the main centre are woefully incorrect.
Across town, the Karmand Centre has had millions thrown at it and now they propose more whilst chucking millions – not announced here – at a sports village only across the road on Myra Shay.
The Parkside Centre is the proposed site for the English Cricket Board’s new urban centre, part of the one-eyed South Asian Plan. Unfortunately, the mustard tie brigade seem unwilling to come up with the money so it hangs in the balance.
If Bradford On Duty proved one thing it was how utterly clueless the two so-called leaders are. This announcement demonstrates a staggering paucity of thought.
Chris Waters – Local Journalist of the Year
Since the Yorkshire racism scandal broke, one journalist alone has stood firmly behind the need for a balanced approach set against the hysterical whinings of the woke crowd, self-serving politicians and parasitic peers.
In his column last Saturday Chris Waters, despite copping the usual anonymous abuse by anonymous, cowardly and unprincipled idiots, wrote another gem of an article – see here.
My “crime”, which drew that latest onslaught of opprobrium on Twitter, was to defend a British Asian man from what I believed to be unfair treatment while at the same time calling for total transparency in the form of a public inquiry into the racism crisis that engulfs Yorkshire cricket.
In a sentence alone he defines the whole sorry episode.
To my abusers, though, I was defending the wrong British Asian man against the actions of another British Asian man, while at the same time not quite sharing their opinions about another British Asian man, with the call for transparency neither here nor there.
It is journalism at its very best. The British Asian man, now serving Nottinghamshire CCC, is Kunwar Bansil. This is from a Daily Telegraph article – see here.
Bansil, who joined them in 2013, said: “I was never aware of any racism or complaints of racism. The picture painted of Yorkshire was that if you are a person of colour you were made to feel unwelcome, that you’d be regularly bullied or discriminated against. That couldn’t be any further from my experience of the club.”
I have said all along that this has been driven by money. Self-righteous MPs ramped up pressure on the ECB who passed that on to YCCC who would have risked financial oblivion had they not dropped their shorts.
They are far from out of the woods.
Help?
Any railway experts out there? I’m trying to understand Bradford Council’s never-ending demands for a new train station on the site of the current St James Wholesale Market.
The picture illustrates the two current stations and the gap between (Broadway Centre). Ignore the blue line as I’m intending to walk A to B from City Park to check distance and time as the claimed savings on journey times appear to me to be dubious.
What would this give Bradford as it certainly is not city centre? All opinions are welcome.
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