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This is actually ridiculous, even for the Mail. Th...

2009-12-17T10:22:49.338Z

This is actually ridiculous, even for the Mail. That headline is proven outright false by the text of the piece. There's absolutely no ambiguity there as the council have not renamed anything.

As much as I'm against the misuse of libel law (ie Trafigura) it seems to me that this would be a case for its intended use.

On the other hand perhaps Bradford Council are just living by that old adage "never piss off anyone who buys ink by the barrel."

Chris

I agree. Those evil PC secularists forcing everyon...

2009-12-16T19:48:15.715Z

I agree. Those evil PC secularists forcing everyone to change 'Christmas' to 'winter'

They've even rewritten those beautiful Christmas songs 'Walking in a Christmas Wonderland' and 'In The Bleak MidChristmas'

Hang on, even the headline is misleading. It's...

2009-12-16T11:57:49.380Z

Hang on, even the headline is misleading. It's been held once before (last year) and was called 'Medieval Midwinter Celebration', this year it's called, yep you guessed it, the 'Medieval Midwinter Celebration'. So in fact it has never even been a 'Christmas festival' and subsequently nothing has been 'renamed'. It was invented and has retained its name.

I added a comment on this yesterday and got 293 re...

2009-12-16T09:59:31.176Z

I added a comment on this yesterday and got 293 reds for my trouble.

People don't like being told they're idiots and being conned do they?

As an aside, I note they're doing a bit of recycling again. Their main story here...

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1236240/Christmas-gifts-galore-family-23-000-benefits.html

is probably wrong but just recyles this one from May

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1180617/I-want-handouts-says-18-year-old-mother-left-1m-home-Big-Issue-seller.html

And they handily miss off the word 'Medieval&#...

2009-12-16T09:35:30.182Z

And they handily miss off the word 'Medieval' from the title of the event, cos that would sort of give the game away that it's obviously an olde worlde solstice type thing.

New Year is called New Year, not Christmas, so a Midwinter solstice celebration is naturally called a Midwinter celebration, and not Christmas. Even though both are quite close to Christmas.

Strikes me as being wildly out of character for Cl...

2009-12-15T23:09:26.894Z

Strikes me as being wildly out of character for Cllr Flowers (believe it or not, he's a Labour man through and through), though bearing in mind this is the Mail I fail to recognise any of the events that are actually happening here in Bradford from their description.