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Gordon Cree seen knitting on Game of Wool. Photo: Channel 4

UK: Shetland Organisation of Knitters “Shocked & Saddened” by Representation in Channel 4 “Game of Wool” Show! (7.11.2025)

Small patterns in Fair Isle are referred to as “peerie patterns”, but Leask has said they “would never” refer to them as “peeries”.

“That’s never been used by a Shetlander,” she said.

“A lot of Shetlanders have said they have never even heard of that.”

Leask described the misinformation in the show as “frustrating”, and said knitters locally spent a lot of their time having to clear up similar confusion with visitors to the isles.

SOK worries now that Game of Wool will have a further damaging effect on misinformation around Shetland knitting.

“The SOK are having to stand up for ourselves,” Leask said.

“The term Fair Isle is going to be lost. Fair Isle is being used when what they are making is not Fair Isle. It’s appropriation.”

And she also railed against Game of Wool as a whole, calling the first challenge – to knit a Fair Isle tank top in 12 hours – “just unrealistic”.

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Islamic Purity and Cleanliness!

On Why Channel 4’s Supporting Fascism Cannot Be Trusted! (30.4.2025)

Even if the 10% of non-White offenders were removed from the equation – it is clear that the UK possesses a very real epidemic of “White” inflicted child sexual offenses. Blaming a small element of a tiny ethnic minority in the UK is a typical fascist policy of race-hate – with many members of the far-right contributing to the White sex offenses the UK is suffering from. Scapegoating does not save a single innocent child from the horror of sexual abuse and trafficking. As Karl Marx says – question everything. Capitalism and fascism are the enemy of humanity.

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UK Disability – the New Holocaust 2014

In 1945 the Labour Party came to power on a Socialist ticket. The instigation of disability related benefits, the blind tax allowance, and employment schemes such as the now defunct Remploy, were all designed to cater for the tens of thousands of ex-servicemen who had suffered disfigurement, loss of limb, loss of eyesight, and a plethora of other debilitating injuries. In the process of these revolutionary changes, those born with disabilities also benefitted from these improvements provided through the Welfare State and the National Health Service.

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