This clap for Captain Tom idea

[User133847]

I've just seen a lot on social media about this clap for Tom on Thursday at 8, similar to the clap for the NHS.

I'm a bit ambivalent about this. The one organised the other week was a damp squib and nobody got involved. The weather is still dark and cold (it wasn't in the summer when the pots and pans were out for the NHS). However, for a nation in mourning at Tom's passing, perhaps this could help really bring the country together on Thursday.

@ddl1

Whether you agree or disagree with the clapping gesture last week is irrelevant, what I want to know is how come cleric Jarel Robinson-Brown is still in a job (and still has his book publishing deal in place), I bet if I'd been so crass on Twitter I'd have a P45 to show for it. Robinson-Brown wrote: “The cult of Captain Tom is a cult of White British Nationalism.”

See:

www.theguardian.com/world/2021/feb/07/church-aided-the-pile-on-of-curates-captain-tom-tweet?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other

P.S. Please don't tell me he made an unreserved apology and deleted the offending remark, it shouldn't have been tweeted in the first place.*

i agree that it was a stupid thing to say, and in very bad taste just after Sir Tom had died. But people say stupid and tasteless and plain nasty things on Twitter all the time. Should they all lose their jobs and their opportunities to publish? In other words, do you believe in 'cancel culture' for everyone, or only for those with whom you disagree?

Well, David Starkey did...