From: JNugent73@mail.com
On 01/08/2025 07:29 PM, Max Demian wrote:
> On 01/08/2025 18:43, 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?
>
> We like to be as free as possible but not where it leads to people
> killing one another.
Thank you, but that doesn't really answer my question, which was in any
case asked of another poster.
Is providing a deterrent against violence and murder the only reason for
restricting freedoms in England, Wales and Scotland?
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