Farrow and his producer Rich McHugh were investigating rumours about Harvey Weinstein’s sexual misconduct for a routine Nightly News slot for NBC – another day, another news story (all that’s missing is the office bottle), when the word came down that the network didn’t want to run it.
He didn’t know it, but this was the beginning of the blooding of Ronan Farrow, his initiation into the consequences of telling truth to power as well as the opening of a new feminist frontier.
He is also “a fine person, but merciful hour, sometimes he comes out with stuff that just stops you in your tracks and you think, ‘Ah, seriously Bishop Phonsie?’ Yoga? A bunch of old ladies in lycra with rolled-up mats trying to get their muscles working again? I mean, just give them a break for God’s sake!”
Provost Wee Willie Hendrie and his elves on the SNP benches would be funny if the situation in Church Street and Hall Street were not so serious.
The ladies have managed to giggle their way through a whole host of austerity cuts – even First Minister Nicola Sturgeon told him these were not needed – which have driven hundreds of local families to living off food banks while these fat cats draw their expenses for doing little and saying almost nothing.
She has, along with family and friends including nephew Ryan, raised more than £500,000 for Marie Curie over the past decade through a series of sporting challenges.
Nicola Sturgeon has said Jeremy Corbyn will cave in over allowing a second independence referendum next year if he becomes Prime Minister and he is under “no illusions” about her demands for putting him in 10 Downing Street.
The Head of News at Britain’s largest publication aimed at a black audience, The Voice, and Facebook’s Head of News Partnerships will be joining panel discussions at the Society conference on November 12.
