O/T Bob Vylan

[NorthWestCorner]

Surely, he should have been arrested by now? The police moved quickly to arrest those involved in spreading hatred following the Southport atrocity so why the delay?

[caytonmiller]

Glastonbury organiser could take the backlash from this as they also allowed kneecap to perform when the lead singer is being charged for SIM offences. Which again were repeated on stage ...
Freedom of speech. When is the line crossed ?

[NorthWestCorner]

This certainly crossed the line. Not sure about Kneecap as I didn’t watch that but given their previous outbursts they shouldn’t even be in the country

[Tigerish]

Lucy Connolly is serving nearly three years in jail for what I regard as a deeply misguided and offensive text message. What happened at Glastonbury is even worse because millions of people heard it. Without a shadow of doubt it is racist and incites violence. So now we await what happen to the guy who said it, the organisers and the BBC. The outcome, especially as regards the perpetrator, will reveal if we do indeed have a two tier justice system. I m intrigued what Sir Keir will do next. Something tells me the perpetrator will not end up behind bars. He's an "artist" after all isn't he?

[OneJohnnyQuinn]

BBC now appear to be the Glastonbury organiser, they should rightfully take the flack but surely they can pull the plug on any act at any time.As stated elsewhere the police will get involved if and when they feel like it

[Eternal Optimist]

Some ex-BBC wonk on GB News last night said they usually use a 15 or 30 second delay mechanism to provide time to throw the switch.

Strangely, in this instance they chose not to use it. Hmm...

[Grist_To_The_Mill]

Surely, he should have been arrested by now? The police moved quickly to arrest those involved in spreading hatred following the Southport atrocity so why the delay?

Because it is a two Kier legal system

[Scum-Triumphant]

Couple of observations

Kneecap have had 39million streams on Spotify since their set and 12 million for Bob Vylan - There truly is no such thing as bad publicity and everytime they appear in the news, on twitter, in football forums or other media it is more money and exposure for them - NWA worked this out with songs about killing cops 30+ years ago - Kim by Eminem is about Killing his Mum - Boy Named Sue By Johnny Cash is about wanting to kill his dad - Bang bang maxwell by the Beatles didn't have people smashing in skulls with silver hammers

It is pearl clutching and the Media fall for it every time.

This wasn't beamed onto everyone's telly - You have to log into the iplayer, search for it, select it and agree to the offensive language warning - It is a choice to have watched it or not and if you didn't then so what do you care?

Finally - While the focus is on some stupid chants by obscure music artists are dominating the headlines - Suddenly no one is talking about the Palestinian village that was burned to ashes yesterday or the children starving to death.

Punk, Rock, Country, Hip Hop has always had an edge to it - These lot have gone too far but it isn't as dramatic as we are being led to believe.

[fc_miller]

Maybe Lucy should have claimed she is a song writer and the text were notes for her next song.

[Scum-Triumphant]

Maybe Lucy should have claimed she is a song writer and the text were notes for her next song.

I don't think anyone benefits from her being in Jail either - 2 things can be true at the same time.