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Sky Sports to send emails to reporters containing list of prohibited and offensive phrases 

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‘Nitty gritty’ on Sky Sports’ banned list of words due to supposed links to slavery as broadcaster orders reporters to avoid using language which may offend viewers after sending emails to staff containing list of prohibited phrases Sky Sports will warn reporters not to use words which may offend viewers Staff members will be sent … Read more

Sky Sportsto send emails to reporters containing list of prohibited and offensive phrases 

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‘Nitty gritty’ on Sky Sports’ banned list of words due to supposed links to slavery as broadcaster orders reporters to avoid using language which may offend viewers after sending emails to staff containing list of prohibited phrases Sky Sports will warn reporters not to use words which may offend viewers Staff members will be sent … Read more

The Good Place producer Megan Amram apologizes for past offensive tweets about Asian-Americans

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The Good Place producer Megan Amram apologizes for past offensive tweets about Asian-Americans: ‘I am deeply embarrassed’ The 32-year-old comedy writer took to Twitter on Wednesday night to express remorse over offensive posts she made several years ago that had resurfaced She wrote: ‘I am deeply embarrassed and more apologetic than you can ever know’  … Read more

5 Seconds of Summer guitarist Michael Clifford apologizes for offensive tweets from 2012

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5 Seconds of Summer guitarist Michael Clifford apologizes for offensive tweets from 2012 By Brian Marks For Dailymail.com Published: 06:37 BST, 15 June 2020 | Updated: 06:37 BST, 15 June 2020 Michael Clifford took to Twitter on Sunday to apologize for offensive tweets he allegedly wrote in 2012. The 5 Seconds of Summer lead guitarist … Read more

Black Lives Matter organiser wants ‘offensive’ statue of Winston Churchill put into museum

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‘Bring down Winston Churchill’s statue!’ Black Lives Matter organiser calls for ‘offensive’ memorial of wartime leader to be removed and put into a museum Imarn Ayton, a figurehead of BLM movement, feels the Churchill statue must go As a compromise she feels it should be placed into a museum, not in the streets  ‘Any statues … Read more

Church where GH Elliott is buried considers erasing his ‘deeply offensive’ stage persona

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The church where a music hall star who performed in blackface is buried wants to erase his ‘deeply offensive’ stage persona from his gravestone but cannot contact the singer’s next of kin. Dancer GH Elliott performed in the early 1900s under the moniker the ‘Chocolate Coloured C**n’ – now considered a highly offensive racial slur. … Read more

DOMINIC LAWSON: The race protesters who defaced Churchill’s statue are perverse and offensive

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Some images from the Black Lives Matter demonstration in London on Saturday will linger long in the memory.  The sheer scale and physical density of the march, as viewed from above, is one, simultaneously impressive in its display of solidarity and terrifying for NHS medics anxious to avert a ‘second wave’ of Covid-19 infection.  Then … Read more

High Court judge censured for ‘ill-tempered and at times offensive language’ in libel case

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A High Court judge who was counsel to the Leveson inquiry ‘harassed and intimidated’ an unrepresented claimant in a libel case and used ‘ill-tempered and at times offensive language’, fellow judges have said.  Mr Justice Jay has been been censured for his use of ‘immoderate’ language towards a claimant in the case, who was not represented by … Read more

Two former senior police officers ‘sent offensive WhatsApp messages about women they met at work’

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Two senior police officers ‘sent each other grossly offensive WhatsApp messages about women they met in their jobs’ Ex-inspector Scott Snowden denied the charges at Grimsby Magistrates’ Court Co-defendant former Superintendent Ed Cook was not present for the hearing Humberside Police declined to comment until court proceedings are concluded By Tom Pyman For Mailonline Published: 12:01 … Read more