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Lisa Nandy has "enormous sympathy" for Ed Sheeran as his tour implodes.

Posted by Der User icon on September 17, 2026, 11:03 am

"One of the few voices expressing sympathy for Sheeran is British culture Secretary Lisa Nandy, who said that she felt he had been left in an “impossible position”.

“I hope it doesn’t harm his tour. He’s one of our most successful artists and also one of the nicest people I’ve ever worked with… I have enormous sympathy for the position that he finds himself in,” she told radio show LBC on Wednesday.

“The world is quite a difficult place at the moment, and I think a lot of people do also quite like to have a space where they can go, where they can leave all of that aside.”

No thoughts or sympathy for Palestinians for whom "the world is quite a difficult place at the moment" and who would also, without any doubt whatsoever, "quite like to have a space where they can go, where they can leave all of that shit aside."

https://www.the-independent.com/arts-entertainment/tv/news/ed-sheeran-tour-macklemore-support-acts-palestine-b3051617.html

Tone deaf, treasonous harpy. She got 12k off zio Trevor Chin last year I think

Posted by Raskolnikov User icon on September 17, 2026, 11:14 am, in reply to "Lisa Nandy has "enormous sympathy" for Ed Sheeran as his tour implodes."

and was also one of those trying to prevent Macabi T. A. "fans" being banned from coming to the Villa match because, you know, reasons....many thousands of them probably.

I mean the fucking balls to say "...people quite like to have a space where they can go..." in this context.

She was also complicit in this:

https://www.declassifieduk.org/what-happened-to-labour-friends-of-palestine/

Get back in the sea you disgusting lying twat.

The corporate media are complicit in the Gaza genocide.
Never forget what they did. Never forgive them for it.

"Get back in the sea you disgusting lying twat"...I think you put that rather well (nm)

Posted by Ed User icon on September 17, 2026, 2:39 pm, in reply to "Tone deaf, treasonous harpy. She got 12k off zio Trevor Chin last year I think"

"I won't dignify the attacker's words by repeating them, they are horrific and vile."

Just gets crazier...

Posted by Ken Waldron User icon on September 17, 2026, 2:10 pm, in reply to "Lisa Nandy has "enormous sympathy" for Ed Sheeran as his tour implodes."

Stadium owner Robert Kraft says Ed Sheeran asked him to donate $2m in aid after Macklemore backlash

-Would that be the kind of aid to Gaza which the Israelis stop from reaching there and indeed allow their own citizens to loot from the trucks? Specifics required.

"Robert Kraft, the US stadium owner who had pro-Palestinian rapper Macklemore removed as Ed Sheeran's opening act, says Sheeran asked him to match his own $2m (£1.5m) donation for "aid in the region"."

Oh ..."aid in the region"...why is it phrased that way? let's all wonder why that's so vague.

"... It came after Macklemore said he would donate $1m (£750,000) to Palestinian organisations, challenging Kraft to match him.

Kraft, who owns the New England Patriots, wrote on Wednesday: "Earlier today, before Macklemore challenged me to match his donation, Ed called me and asked me to commit $2 million to match his donation to aid in the region to fight this humanitarian crisis.

"Ed now plans to reach out to other venue owners and our goal is to continue to work together to build bridges."

Ah...right. so it's only because Macklemore gave his money to the Palestinians...

But it's aid "for the region" "...to build bridges"

Maybe I have a skeptical mind set but that phrasing sounds suspiciously designed to leave open the idea of giving Israel "aid" too: the actual perpetrators of this "Humanitarian crisis" who caused it with all those billions in military "Aid" given to them kindly by the Yanquis government.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cmp3073x6464o

Because reading the actual words and not making assumptions, it follows the whole thing really could end up with the criminal perps getting millions, cos fair's fair and all that, the genocidal state, well, it obviously needs money "to build bridges" too...

"Equivocation" has reached a whole new level here. -the world really is fucked up...

That phrasing stood out to me too

Posted by Raskolnikov User icon on September 17, 2026, 3:14 pm, in reply to "Just gets crazier..."

amid general misgivings once they start talking about "donations", clearly hoping to tamp down the backlash by waving their wad about.

I think they probably are demented enough to talk about giving money "to the region" and then give it to Zaka or IOF amputee rehab or something. Kraft is another one who says "our homeland" when talking about the apartheid state (as shown in the lowkey video above, posted by JL) but that dual loyalty thing? Antisemitism, don't you know....

The corporate media are complicit in the Gaza genocide.
Never forget what they did. Never forgive them for it.

Re: That phrasing stood out to me too

Posted by Ed User icon on September 17, 2026, 4:45 pm, in reply to "That phrasing stood out to me too"

I despise it every time whenever I hear about millionaires/billionaires throwing huge amounts of dosh at anything...just like it's nothing to them...which it is.
Rich, greedy, robbing fuckers.

"I won't dignify the attacker's words by repeating them, they are horrific and vile."

our homeland

Posted by Keith-264 User icon on September 17, 2026, 5:13 pm, in reply to "That phrasing stood out to me too"

Lying nazi fucker.

Greta & Crew

Posted by Gerard User icon on September 17, 2026, 5:47 pm, in reply to "Just gets crazier..."

I wonder who the neoliberal ingrate thinks his audience are! "Ohh dear...look there's no-one here!" Sums the present shithouse up! #Zeitgeist

Quite....nm

Posted by Keith-264 User icon on September 17, 2026, 7:18 pm, in reply to "Greta & Crew"

Its just business: Buying back reuptations never works though. nm

Posted by Shyaku User icon on September 22, 2026, 10:34 am, in reply to "Just gets crazier..."

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