EVER given money to Oxfam, or bought any-thing from one of their friendly shops?
Here’s a suggestion: Don’t do it any more. Oxfam is a politically corrupt, bullying and obnoxious big business — and has been for a long time.
It has been living off a reputation it has not remotely deserved for a good 30 years.
The charity is in the news again this week because of an animated video it produced for Pride Month.
The video showed supposed hate groups, by which it meant people who do not think transgendered women are actually women — ie. most of the population.
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The video also seemingly depicted Harry Potter author JK Rowling as one of the horrible haters.
She was wearing a Terf — trans exclusionary radical feminist — badge.
Bloated and smug
This spiteful little film rightly aroused outrage.
Rowling has received mountains of abuse for her principled position on transgenderism.
But being apparently attacked by a charity was a new low.
The video has been removed but the damage has been done. The damage to Oxfam.
You might well ask what the hell Oxfam has to do with Pride. Good question.
It was set up to relieve famine and poverty. Not to campaign on a whole host of tendentious LGBTQI issues.
The people who innocently donate money think it’s going straight to the poor in Africa and Asia, to help alleviate suffering and build much-needed things like wells.
Nope.
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Instead, it’s just going into the vast coffers of this ludicrously woke big business, which has long since forgotten its purpose.
Malnutrition and poverty seem to come a distant second these days to progressive virtue-signalling and grandstanding.
The charity has already had to apologise to one of its former employees who was reportedly “hounded out” of her job because she didn’t sign up to the same ludicrous manifesto as the Oxfam bigwigs.
Oxfam also has a history of the vilest anti-Semitism.
The Belgian branch produced a poster depicting Israel in a manner which would have gained the approval of Adolf Hitler.
Its bookshops sold the fraudulent, anti-Semitic text Protocols Of The Elders Of Zion, until Jewish lobby groups demanded they be removed from sale.
The actress Scarlett Johansson resigned from her ambassadorial role with Oxfam because of its persecution and bullying of Israel.
And support for boycotts of the country.
Hell, when anyone from Hollywood has been out-woked, you know you’re on the very, very far Left.
There have been plenty of other scandals which show the true nature of the organisation.
It was nabbed for producing utterly misleading statistics.
Oh, and seven of its fieldworkers were outed for sexual exploitation and downloading pornography in poverty-stricken Haiti.
Vast, bloated, smug and spending its money on advertising and lobbying rather than digging the occasional well, Oxfam has become an embarrassment to the charity sector.
Now in its 80th year, it should have the grace to call it a day.
Incidentally, the bosses of Oxfam receive just under £130,000 per year. Well, hell, you know what they say: Charity begins at home.
Anyway, if you’ve got a spare five quid lying around, give it to almost anybody else in the country rather than Oxfam.
IF YOU SAY SO, VLAD . . .
ACCORDING to the Russians, we blew up that dam over the Dnipro River, flooding eastern Ukraine.
I don’t know what drugs they’re on over there.
If we’d been involved, then the blowing up of the dam would have still been at the early planning stage.
Then there would be a judicial review.
Then an investigation by a high court judge to make sure the river wants the dam to be blown up.
The first explosive charges would be laid in late 2037.
In 2038, the year-long strike called by the National Union of People Who Blow Things Up would be going into mediation.
Then in 2045, the Government would change its mind, saying it’s too expensive to blow up the dam and it might lead to water going all over the place.
STICK IT TO GLUE TWERPS
THE police still can’t be bothered to get to grips with those arrogant, middle-class Just Stop Oil protesters, can they?
It’s left to ordinary folk to sort them out.
I have to say, in the video clips I’ve seen, the motorists are behaving with considerable restraint.
If it were up to me I’d advance towards them in a steamroller. “Glued your ar*e to the road, have you? Well, you won’t be needing it much longer.”
I used to go on protests, as a teenager. I was protesting in favour of things which other people disagreed about.
This lot are protesting about stuff we all know is important and are actually doing something about.
It is the very essence of pointlessness and arrogance.
OH no! I have missed an important talk at Cambridge University.
It was given by a woman called Leah Palmer from the Scott Polar Research Institute.
It was entitled: “Queering The Poles – How Queer Voices Are Changing How We Think About The Arctic And Antarctic Regions.”
I hope it went down well.
One day you will hear a slight gurgling noise and then a pop.
That will be the sound of all of our woke academics suddenly disappearing up their own bottoms.
Queering the poles? FFS.
Why Matty will never regret his Swift exit
MATTY Healy has just dodged a bullet.
The 1975 frontman was supposedly in a relationship with Taylor Swift, who has been through the entire population of eligible American males and is now on to the Brits.
But Swift’s fanbase didn’t approve of him because he’s not quite as dim as her previous boyfriends.
At least, I think that’s their objection.
Taylor has apparently dumped him.
Don’t worry, Matty. You can do a lot better than Taylor Swift.
All those plastic American pop babes are pretty, sure.
But I bet they’d really get on your wick the next morning.
WHY can’t the BBC make decent comedy shows any more?
It used to.
I suppose these days it’s too scared somebody will be offended.
They were offered a very funny series called Hapless but turned it down.
Presumably on the grounds that it actually made people laugh.
Meanwhile, you can find Hapless on Netflix, where it’s bringing in a decent audience.
MIKE IS TAKING MICKEY
THE actor Michael Sheen has said he finds non-Welsh actors playing Welsh roles “hard to accept”.
He’s a very good actor, is Welshman Sheen. But he’s also denser than a block of tungsten.
I’m from Middlesbrough, matey, and find it “hard to accept” some Welsh bloke playing one of our natives, Brian Clough.
That was Sheen in the (terrific) film The Damned United.
Think you got the accent right, did you?
Sheen has also played Tony Blair and David Frost.
The thing that’s really hard to accept is his hypocrisy and stupidity.
The point of acting is pretending to be somebody you are not.
THERE was a report at the weekend saying that PM Rishi Sunak wants to reduce our taxes before the next election.
Well, sure, OK. I want to have breakfast with Nastassja Kinski but it’s not going to happen, is it?
Cutting the middle level of tax by a couple of pence in the pound, though, would unquestionably help the economy.
Have some cojones, Rishi, and tell the Chancellor what needs to be done.
GIVE IT A MISS
A SCHOOL in London is banning pupils from using the terms Sir and Miss when referring to their teachers.
I suppose the headmaster wants the kids to think of the teachers as their mates, or something.
Exactly the kind of stuff which has led to kids not respecting their teachers, or elders in general – and as a consequence not doing terribly well in school.
They need to learn a bit of respect and discipline.
The best-performing schools in the country demand it.
