It looks like it could have either been a hostage video that was released by ISIS or The Taliban, or one of the countless public struggle sessions that took place during The Cultural Revolution in Maoist China.
There are well funded groups (Hope Not Hate) and that is their job to scroll through peoples social media and destroy them, causing public discontent and a false narrative. Ie there are Nazis everywhere so we think everything is so twisted, we beg for some kind of revolution.
Albie Stainer ‘whiteness’ is a term well used. I never bothered about race until it was weaponised. These people are obsessed with dividing society. Pardon us for not ignoring them and taking them on.
I think the same, however what has happened to this poor young man, is happening all the time, the white British players are petrified of being cancelled, called racist or losing their careers and income if they don't take the knee in football, it's a disgrace and utter madness.
@@macclift9956 Well, morally ealthy people are humble and forgiving, not resentful and vengeful. So anyone who wants to destroy another person (especially without any reason) is automatically a morally lesser person.
@@1969fata "Morally healthy people are humble and forgiving." Isn't that what the wolf said to Little Red Riding Hood when he was planning to eat her and her grandmother?
@@macclift9956 No. :) Forgiving does not mean you do not protect yourself when attacked. It means forgiving if someone attacks you. And it does not mean no punishment for the attacker, either. It means no unnecessary revenge. On second thoght, ruining someone's carrier for sg that he said 10 years ago does not even stand for revenge because he did nothing to harm anybody, really. So it is either political or morally inferior. (Or both)
@@thefootballgeek2345 When one publicly apologizes to the intolerant and totalitarian leftists who go back years and decades to dig up old social media posts and then use them as a hammer to hit you over the head you are only confirming their belief you are a horrible person. It validates their belief and quite frankly at that point the only course of action from their perspective is join them fully or further confirm their assessment of you as a horrible and irredeemable cretin not worthy of social or economic well-being. They will do everything in their power to deprive you of social and economic well-being. They are a horribly vengeful and unsympathetic gaggle of sociopaths.
If you don't think you've done something wrong, you should never apologise. The woke warriors are thirsting for blood. They are as irrational as religious zealots obsessed with guilt and original sin.
Shocking that he was cancelled. Shame on his so called managers that forced him to read that apology. Énough is enough He said sorry. That should have been enough. We all said things we regret in our past. Not acceptable that he's canceled 8/9 years later. Rediculous carry on.
People found it in their heart to forgive George Floyd his sins elevated to sainthood a new Martin Luther King but let’s not forgive a teenager for a tweet
Everyone has sympathy for dead people. Conflation. Murray is the one dragging this out. The ECB are doing what they deem necessary. The boy has apologised. He will miss a couple of games. Shouldn't be a big deal
We are living in an Orwellian nightmare and the government appears to think it's all fine and dandy. You must conform. You must obey. You must not question. Or we will destroy you.
But he is now a social media luvvie, adored by the sanctimonious SJW's as a hero who balked systemic racisim by marrying a woman of colour... Can we all say "hypocricy"? It's a bit like the Americans who love Biden, despite his racist comments and Harris, who outed Biden as a racist in the early stages of election campaigning... As long as they appease the SJW's they will remain untouchable. Let's also look at the need for these SJWs to remove punishments for actual crimes, because they are "caused by society", but are happy to punish and vilify people forever over poor judgement calls when they were younger.
And it IS fine.. he should be able to dress the fuck up however he wants, along with everyone else. Any offended moron needs to realign their sense of reality.
@@templeofdoom4445 and let’s face it probably as working class as cricketers can get. He was certainly rough round the edges... but like Douglas says why do we need to have monks playing bloody cricket and football. I’m sure it’ll come to Rugby and Rugby League and we’ll have it turned into a non-contact sport!
I didn’t realise Ollie had been kidnapped. So he apologised and they still suspended him. Bad form ECB. He should have just said yeah I sent them. The end. Politics is in the England football team too.
Yes, that's what I thought too. Its ugly and horrible to watch. This country is in a total mess. We better stand up to this or they will try and take us all down.
His parents should have taught him better. Racism should be taught at school to avoid such stuff. Jokes about people's race and gender. 18 isn't to young to understand Racism. 18 year olds have to deal with racism all the time, a 18 black kid won't be given a break because he is young.
The prefrontal cortex does not fully develop untill the age of 25, and as this governs things such as judgement and discretion I think it is pretty dim to judge people on comments they made literally before they were fully mature.
This is all being done to humiliate and shame the rest of us into submission. Stand up and tell them where to go and back each other up. No apologising unless you have done something actually bad.
You’re absolutely spot on Douglas. I’m extremely disappointed in Boris’s disgraceful lack of respect for our world war veterans who would turn in their graves if they could see England now. 👎🏻
@@dorothysurry1368 thats great 👍 just meant as tongue in cheek as I know that some people would jump straight on it... " How dare he".. I think people just need to get a grip of themselves
His family needed to be behind him beating him, as he apologizes blubbering and whimpering it out. Then they should have cut to the State bulldozing his family property while he is made to salt the Earth around it and donate all his money and possessions to the oppressed flavor of the month charity. Then maybe all will be forgiven for what he tweeted when he was a kid, where no one was really harmed and no one really cares about anyway.
Ollie read out that statement with all the gusto and heartfelt sincerity of a hostage video where the captors hadn't allowed him to read the script beforehand, with the business end of an automatic rifle just off camera. Any apology read directly, and falteringly from a piece of paper means nothing and everybody knows it. Of course, he shouldn't have made it, and more to the point shouldn't have been forced to make it, but it's so obviously insincere and sycophantic, what value is there to it in anyone's eyes but those who want to force people to say things that they don't really feel or believe. This is the standard of public debate now, people being forced to make bland and hollow statements written by a PR firm just to keep their job, what have the great British traditions of debate and dialectic come to.
How utterly degrading, how have we come to this. Can you imagine Freddie Trueman enduring such humiliation, one of the London sicko wokies would be nursing a thick ear
Ken Gibson. And that is exactly what will happen in the future. These wokest nut jobs will bully or encourage something that will cause a massive bang in this country. Boris should get his head out of the denial pit. And stop this crap.
Absolutely outrageous treatment of a young sportsman. Where was the support from his team and the team captain? If we don't stop all this wokey-pokey stupidity, life will become unbearable in another couple of years. If I had to apologise for remarks that I'd made as a teenager, I'd be in repentance for the rest of my days.....I'd like to hear what Geoff Boycott has to say on the matter.
I'm 46 seconds in, watching a man make a scripted grovelling apology looking exactly like a frightened hostage. This is reminiscent of the sort of thing we've seen coming out of Saddam's Iraq, or North Korea. NEVER APOLOGISE - they just take it as a confession and will not forgive you. Pathetic seeing a man being publicly humiliated.
Humiliate first and than destroy their life’s ! That’s what neoliberal establishment does! James Forsyth has degenerates face. Useful character, I guess. 🤣 Douglas Mary , despite hitting with the truth from the most safe space of cultural dimensions, is very powerful and effective! It’s the pleasure to listen to him! Douglas, you have fans all over the world!
in the old days you went to confession and only God and the priest knew your sins and you did your penance in private.Now people are tried and convicted by social media ,made to apologise in front of the media and beg forgiveness from the whole offended world.I am horrified by this ,is there no forgiveness for youthful errors?Mrs Liz Hales.
As usual, Douglas is spot on. Show me the person who hasn't said something controversial in his past. Should we all carry whips in which to flog ourselves at the whim of society?
This is absolutely stupid and ridiculous!!! If anyone engages in such behaviour or tweets such things in the current time, then sure, I can understand the suspension. But this move to censure people for something said or written years ago is utterly draconian, and for the managers and other people in charge to give into this blackmail will only increase and encourage such behaviour and way of thinking!!!
Poor lad - this could happen to any of us - and will ! Good points from Douglas Murray - shaming those who get caught is yet another immature response!
The concept of never do any wrong is ridiculous. People are inevitably both good and bad and on a learning trajectory situated in a contextual past and present. We need to let go of the ideal and appreciate that people are not one dimensional
Geeeeeeeeeee!!!!!! The thought police are at it again. So let me get this straight “are we expected to remember every remark we make and be punished for them 10:years later!!!!” . Madness. This has to stop. He should not have apologised. Period.
You are supposed to be stupid when you're young. It's how you become a rounded and balanced adult capable of dealing with the world around you. I would hate to live in a world without the innocence of youth.
Murray's first response regarding the bashing of the crickteer's youthful indiscretion: "It was a 'retributive' gesture." Don't you just love Murray's speaking vocabulary? Of course, in the culture wars, the neo-Marxists would argue that a learned vocabulary is evidence of "white privilege," aided and abetted by "systemic racism." If Murray worked for the Coca-Cola Company, he would be enjoined to be "less white" and enrolled in "re-education classes" like a peasant caught reading The U.S. Declaration of Independence in China. As for Boris defending British tradition -- of course, he should. The failure of Western leaders to affirm and enforce our cultural standards of behavior and learning is what got us into this jolly quagmire in the first place. We simply need to elect officials with the "cajones" to do it.
Douglas Murray was right, the apology video did rather resemble some forced statement from North Korea. It rather reminds me of the video of the Belarussian journalist recently.
Children predominantly use their amygdala (emotional) brain growing up but as they become adults, the frontal lobe cortex (rational, forward planning) comes more to the fore, and the whole brain is “scrambled” with risk taking at its strongest point. Not until around 25 years of age does the frontal lobe cortex dominate, and physiologically men are slower than females in development. In other words, what I’m saying is - give the guy a break.
@@cloudybeforerain7134 Oh right that absolves him making an effort, he's an editor as well as a writer. Why isn't he doing something more than being interviewed himself? He was on GB News talking about the Bately and Spen by-election, and the 'blasphemy' case there, and STILL didn't even mention Anne Marie Waters or For Britain. The mind boggles at his selectivity!
So we've reached the point where you must be born perfect. Even Christ was in his thirties before he upped his game. I'm more concerned about the person that dug these tweets up.
They make one cricketer apologise for 'sexist' tweets he made 8 years ago, but Kent Cricket have awarded 'Female Cricketer of the Year' to a man. Nothing quite like Woke double standards.
When cancel culture comes for you over jokes, the only correct action is to say "Fuck you" and tell another 'offensive' joke. The woke does not forget, nor forgive so all you can do is signal to those opposed to it that you will not bow down to it's games.
I am almost tempted to encourage Mr Murray to become an MP but I wouldn't want to see his integrity, common sense, moral fibre, balanced views and opinions becoming soiled.
Poor lad already started off at a disadvantage, having a name almost identical to a civil servant regarded as a traitor by many. I don't normally bother with cricket much, but I was so disgusted with the way he was humiliated on public TV that I've been thinking about the meanness of it ever since. Then to find out that he had been about to represent his country for the first time but was dropped despite the humiliation; and that the tweets had been made years ago when he had been a teenager, you have to wonder how many on the board get a very unhealthy kick out of inflicting pain on others for lapses they have actually spent time and effort uncovering. Perhaps the spotlight should move onto them next.
@Pinned by The Spectator Just wondering why my comment appears to be the only one that was replied to with this invitation - and feeling ever so slightly suspicious that it might not really be from The Spectator?
He sounded like a 6 year old kid reading a script out for his school play. It wasn't sincere, so it holds no value. Just another pointless action to try and salve the conscience of a celebrity and their masters and avoid loss of revenue from social cancellation... Nothing more than pointless virtue signaling 👏
This public apology is reminiscent of the forced public confessions made by dissidents in totalitarian regimes.
Just what I was thinking.
This is a cultural revolution and Conservatives aren't going to do a thing about it.
That's exactly what this is.
So true, looks like the pilot from the first Gulf war
Yes David. Of course. Just like that. Now. At ease...
He looks like a hostage forced at gun point to say something he doesn't mean.
Captured RAF airmen pushed in front of the camera by Saddam Hussein
Absolutely!
It looks like it could have either been a hostage video that was released by ISIS or The Taliban, or one of the countless public struggle sessions that took place during The Cultural Revolution in Maoist China.
Speaking as an American, Boris looks like an incompetent wuss, not a hostage. Big difference. He's a useful idiot of whoever has his testicles.
No one expects the Spanish Inquisition
(Monty Python)
The real bastard is whoever leaked those tweets on his England debut
There are well funded groups (Hope Not Hate) and that is their job to scroll through peoples social media and destroy them, causing public discontent and a false narrative. Ie there are Nazis everywhere so we think everything is so twisted, we beg for some kind of revolution.
@@michaelfern4079 and they claim their aim is to build inclusive communities, seems a strange way to go about it.
@@macclift9956 WHAT "white culture"? Aren't we all supposed to individuals? Each person lives his or her life in different ways.
Albie Stainer ‘whiteness’ is a term well used. I never bothered about race until it was weaponised. These people are obsessed with dividing society. Pardon us for not ignoring them and taking them on.
so true.
Yes that’s it, force people to apologise and then tell them they won’t be forgiven
He needs no forgiveness nothing to forgive he was a kid.
Spot on. That's how the Left operates.
Shocking abuse of another human being..
Never apologize. They fire you anyway.
I think the same, however what has happened to this poor young man, is happening all the time, the white British players are petrified of being cancelled, called racist or losing their careers and income if they don't take the knee in football, it's a disgrace and utter madness.
And probably what you said isn’t as bad as Wokeness
@@macclift9956 Well, morally ealthy people are humble and forgiving, not resentful and vengeful. So anyone who wants to destroy another person (especially without any reason) is automatically a morally lesser person.
@@1969fata "Morally healthy people are humble and forgiving." Isn't that what the wolf said to Little Red Riding Hood when he was planning to eat her and her grandmother?
@@macclift9956 No. :) Forgiving does not mean you do not protect yourself when attacked. It means forgiving if someone attacks you. And it does not mean no punishment for the attacker, either. It means no unnecessary revenge. On second thoght, ruining someone's carrier for sg that he said 10 years ago does not even stand for revenge because he did nothing to harm anybody, really. So it is either political or morally inferior. (Or both)
The worst thing he did was to bloody apologise. That’s a guarantee you be gone by tomorrow
Agree it was like a hostage video
Yes, I'm sorry 😟😁😁
You shouldn't apologize.. it's a mug's game
The left Will then tear you apart.🇬🇧💪
Eh? Why wouldn't one apologise? What he said was childish and rude.
@@thefootballgeek2345 When one publicly apologizes to the intolerant and totalitarian leftists who go back years and decades to dig up old social media posts and then use them as a hammer to hit you over the head you are only confirming their belief you are a horrible person. It validates their belief and quite frankly at that point the only course of action from their perspective is join them fully or further confirm their assessment of you as a horrible and irredeemable cretin not worthy of social or economic well-being. They will do everything in their power to deprive you of social and economic well-being. They are a horribly vengeful and unsympathetic gaggle of sociopaths.
If you don't think you've done something wrong, you should never apologise. The woke warriors are thirsting for blood. They are as irrational as religious zealots obsessed with guilt and original sin.
Shocking that he was cancelled. Shame on his so called managers that forced him to read that apology. Énough is enough He said sorry. That should have been enough. We all said things we regret in our past. Not acceptable that he's canceled 8/9 years later. Rediculous carry on.
He was 18 ffs.
He should never have apologised..
Do you mean "ridiculous "
His apology reminds me of a forced confession during the Chinese cultural revolution (ah Douglas agrees lol)
History (rather depressingly) repeats its self in a slightly different way.
Wont be that much different, I believe.
Does Douglas ever converse with non-white people, he seems rather racist.
It’s worse.. he wasn’t even forced, just slipped himself into the pathetic post modern role like a lost puppy.
@@jamestamz th-cam.com/video/hUAKbPHm2Mo/w-d-xo.html yes he does. No he's not racist. Happy?
And yet the ECB allows the team to play against some countries with questionable ethics.
It's ok to suggest that sufferer's of sexual abuse should stay quiet for the sake of diversity though
Ain't that the truth..
It’s all bs
Thousands of them & everybody knows that there was racism involved in the operation of those rape gangs.
@@ore1544 To the politically correct the Caucasian race has a monopoly on racism
@Anya Wale I understand that those that go along with it put it above right and wrong. If something is wrong it is wrong
People found it in their heart to forgive George Floyd his sins elevated to sainthood a new Martin Luther King but let’s not forgive a teenager for a tweet
Excellent comment!
Agree 💯
Everyone has sympathy for dead people. Conflation. Murray is the one dragging this out. The ECB are doing what they deem necessary. The boy has apologised. He will miss a couple of games. Shouldn't be a big deal
Mob mentality!
So TRUE.
We are living in an Orwellian nightmare and the government appears to think it's all fine and dandy. You must conform. You must obey. You must not question. Or we will destroy you.
Harry dressing up as an SS officer is just fine though...
I think he got a lot of stick. Ott then too
But he is now a social media luvvie, adored by the sanctimonious SJW's as a hero who balked systemic racisim by marrying a woman of colour... Can we all say "hypocricy"? It's a bit like the Americans who love Biden, despite his racist comments and Harris, who outed Biden as a racist in the early stages of election campaigning... As long as they appease the SJW's they will remain untouchable. Let's also look at the need for these SJWs to remove punishments for actual crimes, because they are "caused by society", but are happy to punish and vilify people forever over poor judgement calls when they were younger.
Should have worn it for the wedding
@Yoko Ono Is she black? I hadn't even noticed.
And it IS fine.. he should be able to dress the fuck up however he wants, along with everyone else. Any offended moron needs to realign their sense of reality.
Maoist cultural revolution INSANITY ......FFS people stop this madness.
Reading from a script like a hostage.
Kate Andrews is a bit wooden in her delivery in this video yeah. Or do you mean the cricketer - him too. 🤨
@@drpaynex4240 haha.i was thinking the cricketer.
Yes, I was horrified to see this!
Ollys' statement reminds me of ISIS coerced confessions
Olly only got cancelled because he is White and British, simple.
@@templeofdoom4445 and let’s face it probably as working class as cricketers can get. He was certainly rough round the edges... but like Douglas says why do we need to have monks playing bloody cricket and football. I’m sure it’ll come to Rugby and Rugby League and we’ll have it turned into a non-contact sport!
😃😃😃
Yeah Douglas is spot on again with this, it's disgusting behaviour dragging peoples pasts up when they were not much older than childern
WTF everyone in all of human history as a teenager has done things they regret .
Douglas is fast becoming the very thing he despises. . . a whinger!
So you will be supporting Begum's return to the United Kingdom to face any justice the law deems necessary?
Or are you just chatting shit?
I didn’t realise Ollie had been kidnapped. So he apologised and they still suspended him. Bad form ECB. He should have just said yeah I sent them. The end. Politics is in the England football team too.
Yeah. Just like that...
Get a grip son. This is real life.
This sounds like the interviews with those two airmen that got caught in Iraq.
My thoughts exactly
Just missing the orange jumpsuit
Yes, that's what I thought too. Its ugly and horrible to watch. This country is in a total mess. We better stand up to this or they will try and take us all down.
Who is so pathetic that they would wade through his social media from a decade ago? Looks like a hostage video - sends shivers down my spine.
A nazi Calibrator against the people
Never apologies to a bully or he’ll have you lunch money everyday until you kick him in the nuts.
Next up Boris called someone a poo poo head in primary school! Get him!!!
😆😆😆
More to the point if Johnson won’t poo poo he should get off the potty!
Let he who is without sin.......All he is guilty of is being young a daft, like we all were.
Agree's He needs no forgiveness nothing to forgive he was a kid.
Absolutely right...don't give in to this nonsense..
True!
Here's how this stops all the cricketers just refuse to play they just throw the bats down and walk off the pitch until this woke rubbish stops
Why?
@@thefootballgeek2345 Why ? what ?
@@TheMRmadhatt
Ah. He yields at the first sign on blood.....
I’d go to a match and pay to see that.
I’m really sorry for this guy. Yes, he was stupid but he was young!….Let those without sin cast the first stone!
His parents should have taught him better. Racism should be taught at school to avoid such stuff. Jokes about people's race and gender. 18 isn't to young to understand Racism. 18 year olds have to deal with racism all the time, a 18 black kid won't be given a break because he is young.
@@oldboygeorge7688 so you never said anything appropriate growing up as a teenager ? Don’t pretend your shit doesn’t stink.
@@oldboygeorge7688 you must be a barrel of laughs at a party? yet again you probably never got invited to one
The prefrontal cortex does not fully develop untill the age of 25, and as this governs things such as judgement and discretion I think it is pretty dim to judge people on comments they made literally before they were fully mature.
@@waynejohnson7058
I bet you don't apply that fact to all children who break the law or are objectively immoral.
Robinson, like everyone else, maybe show regret but NEVER NEVER apologise.
This is all being done to humiliate and shame the rest of us into submission.
Stand up and tell them where to go and back each other up.
No apologising unless you have done something actually bad.
When does the cancel attacks start on the Virtual signalling footballers begin. That will be like swatting flys
I know, please don't look into the England players previous tweets otherwise we won't have a team for Sunday
Boris is the best Labour leader for years!
He is prime minister because Corby was the alternative. Both sh1te but Corbyn more so
If I was a sportsman, I would stay well away from twitter. And just people in general, just to be sure!
This is how horrible! This os getting nasty👀
Kinda hard to know to stay away nearly ten years before you are a sportsman.
Douglas Murray taught me years ago. Do not buckle. Stand up to the mob.
Yes but it has never changed anything, it just gets worse and worse
@@templeofdoom4445 The problem I repeat in EVERY democracy is the stupid lunatic LEFT.Throw them out.Instead make a Centrist party.
You’re absolutely spot on Douglas. I’m extremely disappointed in Boris’s disgraceful lack of respect for our world war veterans who would turn in their graves if they could see England now. 👎🏻
Hello Elaine how are you doing?
I’m more disappointed that Johnson is an oxygen thief.
Never apologise.
Expecting Doris to defend British tradition?
I don’t think there’s the remotest chance of that happening!
So called grown ups are allowing this to happen. It’s disgusting and anyone involved should be roundly rejected.
I wouldn't apologise. In fact i would say that if women spent more time ironing they wouldn't have time to complain....😂🤣😂🤣👍
What?
@@bostaurus1 its called satire.
Neil, as a woman I agree plus your comment made me 🤣🤣🤣
@@dorothysurry1368 thats great 👍 just meant as tongue in cheek as I know that some people would jump straight on it... " How dare he".. I think people just need to get a grip of themselves
@@neil9736 By the way I hate ironing 🤣🤣🤣🤣
His family needed to be behind him beating him, as he apologizes blubbering and whimpering it out. Then they should have cut to the State bulldozing his family property while he is made to salt the Earth around it and donate all his money and possessions to the oppressed flavor of the month charity. Then maybe all will be forgiven for what he tweeted when he was a kid, where no one was really harmed and no one really cares about anyway.
8 years ago is History, he did it as a teenager. If we are judged as teenagers we may as well all give up. Cricket has gone woke like football.
Ollie read out that statement with all the gusto and heartfelt sincerity of a hostage video where the captors hadn't allowed him to read the script beforehand, with the business end of an automatic rifle just off camera. Any apology read directly, and falteringly from a piece of paper means nothing and everybody knows it. Of course, he shouldn't have made it, and more to the point shouldn't have been forced to make it, but it's so obviously insincere and sycophantic, what value is there to it in anyone's eyes but those who want to force people to say things that they don't really feel or believe. This is the standard of public debate now, people being forced to make bland and hollow statements written by a PR firm just to keep their job, what have the great British traditions of debate and dialectic come to.
I love listening to Douglas Murrays words here..it rings truth to my ears!
Brits gone nuts. Hard to imagine that their forefathers ruled half the world.
That's still an issue.
How utterly degrading, how have we come to this. Can you imagine Freddie Trueman enduring such humiliation, one of the London sicko wokies would be nursing a thick ear
Ken Gibson. And that is exactly what will happen in the future.
These wokest nut jobs will bully or encourage something that will cause a massive bang in this country.
Boris should get his head out of the denial pit. And stop this crap.
Absolutely outrageous treatment of a young sportsman. Where was the support from his team and the team captain? If we don't stop all this wokey-pokey stupidity, life will become unbearable in another couple of years. If I had to apologise for remarks that I'd made as a teenager, I'd be in repentance for the rest of my days.....I'd like to hear what Geoff Boycott has to say on the matter.
I'm 46 seconds in, watching a man make a scripted grovelling apology looking exactly like a frightened hostage. This is reminiscent of the sort of thing we've seen coming out of Saddam's Iraq, or North Korea. NEVER APOLOGISE - they just take it as a confession and will not forgive you. Pathetic seeing a man being publicly humiliated.
Humiliate first and than destroy their life’s ! That’s what neoliberal establishment does! James Forsyth has degenerates face. Useful character, I guess. 🤣
Douglas Mary , despite hitting with the truth from the most safe space of cultural dimensions, is very powerful and effective! It’s the pleasure to listen to him! Douglas, you have fans all over the world!
Haha I saw Boris in world view today saying we must all become gender neutral. What an absolutely clown 😆😆😆
George Bush came up with the best response to this sort of thing " When i was young and foolish, i was young and foolish".
in the old days you went to confession and only God and the priest knew your sins and you did your penance in private.Now people are tried and convicted by social media ,made to apologise
in front of the media and beg forgiveness from the whole offended world.I am horrified by this ,is there no forgiveness for youthful errors?Mrs Liz Hales.
Let’s go after him because I’m so perfect myself. 🙄 The vengefulness of this is so ugly.
Apologising... there’s his only mistake.
As a Japanese, I thought his tweet about Asians smiling fairly funny. Woke getting upset for people who don’t need defending
He reminds me of that American airman forced to read a statement when captured in Iran
Douglas nails it again as did the other guest.
As usual, Douglas is spot on. Show me the person who hasn't said something controversial in his past. Should we all carry whips in which to flog ourselves at the whim of society?
Bloody ridiculous the hole situation
Omg it's like a hostage reading a message
I once heard of a 90 year old who left the milk out of the fridge as a child. Execution can be the only suitable consequence.
Firing squad, nothing less.
@@davidmccormick4319 by ‘firing squad’, I hope you mean medieval torture
This is absolutely stupid and ridiculous!!! If anyone engages in such behaviour or tweets such things in the current time, then sure, I can understand the suspension. But this move to censure people for something said or written years ago is utterly draconian, and for the managers and other people in charge to give into this blackmail will only increase and encourage such behaviour and way of thinking!!!
I'd like to be Ollie Robinson's friend.
The opening interview reminds you of a prisoner of war under the threat of execution.
Reminds me of that poor pilot reading a pre written statement when captured by Sadam Hussain. CHILLING, what is happening to this country?
Douglas Murray is always worth listening to.
He is right, the Brits gave the world a lot & should be proud of it.
Blink twice bro
Poor lad - this could happen to any of us - and will ! Good points from Douglas Murray - shaming those who get caught is yet another immature response!
That apology is terrifying
A least with Christianity there is redemption. These ain’t no redemption in the world of Twitter 😂
The concept of never do any wrong is ridiculous. People are inevitably both good and bad and on a learning trajectory situated in a contextual past and present. We need to let go of the ideal and appreciate that people are not one dimensional
Pyongyangesc. A great description 🙂
Geeeeeeeeeee!!!!!! The thought police are at it again. So let me get this straight “are we expected to remember every remark we make and be punished for them 10:years later!!!!” . Madness.
This has to stop. He should not have apologised. Period.
Hello Maria, how are you doing?
You are supposed to be stupid when you're young. It's how you become a rounded and balanced adult capable of dealing with the world around you.
I would hate to live in a world without the innocence of youth.
Ollie is innocent 👍
Reminds my of forced confessions televised in China.
Bugger....just read a few comments saying the same thing. Well, at least a lot of people are making similar assessments.
Murray's first response regarding the bashing of the crickteer's youthful indiscretion: "It was a 'retributive' gesture." Don't you just love Murray's speaking vocabulary? Of course, in the culture wars, the neo-Marxists would argue that a learned vocabulary is evidence of "white privilege," aided and abetted by "systemic racism." If Murray worked for the Coca-Cola Company, he would be enjoined to be "less white" and enrolled in "re-education classes" like a peasant caught reading The U.S. Declaration of Independence in China. As for Boris defending British tradition -- of course, he should. The failure of Western leaders to affirm and enforce our cultural standards of behavior and learning is what got us into this jolly quagmire in the first place. We simply need to elect officials with the "cajones" to do it.
I am Ollie Robinson.
Boris does not have a spine
Never apologise, ever.
Hostage video the UK in 2021 shocking
Douglas Murray was right, the apology video did rather resemble some forced statement from North Korea. It rather reminds me of the video of the Belarussian journalist recently.
The Magdalen MCR is the 'Middle Common Room'. This man must have been to Cambridge or something.
Why is Prince Harry not coming in for the same treatment?
Because he's managed to successfully paint himself as a victim of, well, other stuff I suppose.
Maoist struggle session
Douglas Murray always spot on.
Why do we expect sports men to be saints
It's already been said by a few people, but Ollie Robertsons apology really did look like a hostage video !
Children predominantly use their amygdala (emotional) brain growing up but as they become adults, the frontal lobe cortex (rational, forward planning) comes more to the fore, and the whole brain is “scrambled” with risk taking at its strongest point. Not until around 25 years of age does the frontal lobe cortex dominate, and physiologically men are slower than females in development. In other words, what I’m saying is - give the guy a break.
Anne Marie Waters has more to say about today's politics than Douglas Murray. When is The Spectator going to interview her?
Douglas Murray is analytically brilliant.
@@JB-pp4nj Yes but he's not going to do anything about it.
@@FiveLiver Do you really think saving the West is going to be a one man show?
@@cloudybeforerain7134 Oh right that absolves him making an effort, he's an editor as well as a writer. Why isn't he doing something more than being interviewed himself? He was on GB News talking about the Bately and Spen by-election, and the 'blasphemy' case there, and STILL didn't even mention Anne Marie Waters or For Britain. The mind boggles at his selectivity!
Who without sin cast the first stone. We all have something in our past we regret we did or said. No one is pure of heart. I felt for him
I love Douglas Murray 👍🏻
So we've reached the point where you must be born perfect. Even Christ was in his thirties before he upped his game. I'm more concerned about the person that dug these tweets up.
To be honest you are thick if you are on twitter
They make one cricketer apologise for 'sexist' tweets he made 8 years ago, but Kent Cricket have awarded 'Female Cricketer of the Year' to a man.
Nothing quite like Woke double standards.
That awkward moment when feminism treats Woman as a political privilege, then feminists disagree on how they should apply their institutional sexism.
Life experience redeems ones self.
What has happened to this fella is a disgrace.
Would Douglas join the conservatives as Culture War Secretary? Hahahaha
When cancel culture comes for you over jokes, the only correct action is to say "Fuck you" and tell another 'offensive' joke. The woke does not forget, nor forgive so all you can do is signal to those opposed to it that you will not bow down to it's games.
I am almost tempted to encourage Mr Murray to become an MP but I wouldn't want to see his integrity, common sense, moral fibre, balanced views and opinions becoming soiled.
Poor lad already started off at a disadvantage, having a name almost identical to a civil servant regarded as a traitor by many.
I don't normally bother with cricket much, but I was so disgusted with the way he was humiliated on public TV that I've been thinking about the meanness of it ever since. Then to find out that he had been about to represent his country for the first time but was dropped despite the humiliation; and that the tweets had been made years ago when he had been a teenager, you have to wonder how many on the board get a very unhealthy kick out of inflicting pain on others for lapses they have actually spent time and effort uncovering. Perhaps the spotlight should move onto them next.
@Pinned by The Spectator
Just wondering why my comment appears to be the only one that was replied to with this invitation - and feeling ever so slightly suspicious that it might not really be from The Spectator?
He sounded like a 6 year old kid reading a script out for his school play. It wasn't sincere, so it holds no value. Just another pointless action to try and salve the conscience of a celebrity and their masters and avoid loss of revenue from social cancellation... Nothing more than pointless virtue signaling 👏
Never apologise for anything you have said or written if you meant it sincerely.
More to the point, who drew attention to his tweets?