From: jethro_uk@hotmailbin.com
On Fri, 01 Aug 2025 20:41:26 +0000, Roger Hayter wrote:
> On 1 Aug 2025 at 18:43:16 BST, "JNugent" wrote:
>
>> On 01/08/2025 04:19 PM, Jethro_uk wrote:
>>> On Fri, 01 Aug 2025 12:14:11 +0100, JNugent wrote:
>>>
>>>> On 31/07/2025 09:16 PM, Jethro_uk wrote:
>>>>> On Thu, 31 Jul 2025 17:10:35 +0100, Martin Harran wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> On Fri, 18 Jul 2025 15:30:21 +0100, JNugent
>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> On 18/07/2025 01:51 PM, Mark Goodge wrote:
>>>>>>>> On Thu, 17 Jul 2025 16:03:49 +0100, Roland Perry
>>>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> In message , at 13:59:10 on
>>>>>>>>> Thu, 17 Jul 2025, JNugent remarked:
>>>>>>>>>> On 16/07/2025 06:49 PM, billy bookcase wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> "JNugent" wrote in message
>>>>>>>>>>> news:mdq2h5FotucU1@mid.individual.net...
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>> You snipped it (for your own rasons), but can you posit an
>>>>>>>>>>>> innocent reason for BBC vacancies being advertised in The
>>>>>>>>>>>> Guardian, but not The Times or The Telegraph?
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> Even assuming that the claim is true
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> It is.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> And not the slightest bit un-usual. Back in the day, jobs for
>>>>>>>>> senior managers in the IT industry (amongst others) were
>>>>>>>>> normally advertised only in The Sunday Times. Quite irrespective
>>>>>>>>> of the paper's politics.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Similarly jobs for senior schoolteachers, only in the TES (Times
>>>>>>>>> Educational Supplement).
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Why waste your money advertising elsewhere, when virtually all
>>>>>>>>> your target audience will be assiduously scanning the one
>>>>>>>>> appropriate publication every week?
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Indeed. It works both ways. Cornering the market for a particular
>>>>>>>> type of paid content (eg, job adverts) is a very good way of also
>>>>>>>> increasing the views of your own content (reportage) and other
>>>>>>>> paid content (general advertising). And once you have a
>>>>>>>> reputation for being the place people will look for these
>>>>>>>> adverts, then the advertisers will focus on putting them in your
>>>>>>>> publication.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Another one which used to do that very effectively, pre-Internet,
>>>>>>>> was the Evening Standard with its rental adverts. If you wanted
>>>>>>>> to rent a flat in London, you needed to buy the Standard, because
>>>>>>>> that's where all the adverts were. And if you had a flat you
>>>>>>>> wanted to find a tenant for, you had to advertise it in the
>>>>>>>> Standard because that's where everybody was looking.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> They were private sector adverts, placed most of the time by
>>>>>>> private individuals.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Not sure if it's still the case but back when i was working in
>>>>>> Northern Ireland (70s to 90s), firms generally placed employment
>>>>>> ads in both a 'Catholic' paper and a 'Protestant' paper so as not
>>>>>> to run foul of fair emplyment legislation.
>>>>>
>>>>> NI is a special place for the equality act. As a few recruitment
>>>>> systems have discovered to their cost.
>>>>
>>>> Is there any good reason why discrimination forbidden and policed in
>>>> Northern Ireland should be allowed - and even encouraged - in the
>>>> rest of the UK?
>>>
>>> I suggest you read a history of Ireland from Cromwell to the present
>>> day.
>>
>> Woud it not be possible to just answer the question?
>>
>> Is there any good reason why discrimination forbidden and policed in
>> Northern Ireland should be allowed - and even encouraged - in the rest
>> of the UK?
>
> Why should *he* answer your question, which is obviously best addressed
> to the UK government?
Whose answer would be basically "It's 800 years of history".
The fact this history isn't taught in the bigger of one of the
protagonists in the story is in itself a reflection on how ruling by pig-
ignorance works in practice.
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