Wednesday, 20 April 2016

FFS


My (limited) Twitter timeline today has been full of understandable horror that the National Union of Students (in a very depressing sign of the times) has elected Malia Bouattia as its new president. (Sue has had something to say about her previously):






That last tweet doubtless relates to the predictably politically-correct headline on the BBC News website home page, which some BBC hack clearly thought was the main angle to the story:


In fairness, the BBC article itself (and its revised headline) is much better, and - checking NewsSniffer - it started out as follows (before being watered down somewhat):


For more reaction:
The Spectator: Introducing the new NUS president who won't condemn ISIS
Jewish ChronicleAnti-Zionist student leader elected as the new president of NUS
Harry's PlaceBouattia is NUS President
Guido Fawkes: New NUS president back by CAGE, believes media controlled by Zionists