Chi-chi Nwanoku, who refused to allow the ‘racist’ British national anthem to be played by her diversity orchestra, yesterday accepted a CBE from Buckingham Palace.
CBE stands for Commander of the Order of the British Empire.
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Oh the irony!!!
Could she also tell us how much she earns from her orchestra?
TOKENIST NONSENSE GALORE!
According to Private Eye, it’s 100k a year.
Hypocrisy at its worst
I would pay good money to have the photo of her kneeling before His Majesty Charles the Third, by the Grace of God, King of His Realms and Territories.
What a joke. This woman trashed the Queen by refusing to play the National Anthem after her death.
Bloody ridiculous
Hypocrisy, thy name is Chi-chi.
They called her bluff, and they won.
My… God.
Major league hypocrite.
That fascinator is cultural appropriation.
An anti-imperialist that accepts an honour from British Royalty. That’s pretty unbelievable.
What does it say about the Monarchy that bestows its highest honor on its self proclaimed enemy? Are they taking the high ground and ignoring the politics or are they too scared Not to give this award to this person?
Not really unbelievable. Wokesters have brave words & stances, but they crave the same fame and power as those they’ve claimed to oppose.
Hypocrisy? Just normal leftist behavior.
There is, of course, another way to look at this: giving her a CBE recognises her musical achievements, tolerates differences of opinion and attitudes, and shows that there are some who are better than her. Mind you, I prefer the other view – she could, after all, have declined the award, which would at least have shown conviction.
Farcical.
CBE… Can’t Bully Everyone?
… but she does her best!
Re the headline: what decent person these days is not an anti-imperialist?
Once again, principles take a back seat to the insatiable need of artistes to be validated. If you’re not showering them with awards, prizes and gongs, then you’re a Philistine who hates art and is likely a Nazi.
What a tiresome, washed-up, unpleasant, nasty piece of exhaustingly self-promoting hypocrisy she is, resented on all sides. But I don’t own a home in Richmond like she does, so I must be rather bitter.
“……and for pointing out to us at Windsor towers, that we were (and continue to be) racist imperial slave traders…..please accept this tin plated gewgaw as an humble expression of our repentance etc etc” Recipient (bowing, scraping, curtsying, kneeling, whatever)……”Thankyou most glorious and majestic Highness”
The national anthem is a dreadful dirge. Anyone would be justified in refusing to play it on artistic grounds alone.
As for those investitures, they must be wonderful occasions. All those accomplished and talented people… and the royal family.
Get rid of these kind of ensembles and positive-racist initiatives whether it’s orchestras for gays, choirs for black people, commissions for composers to or whatever. Society needs to work together for its improvement. Chi Chi and others like her seems to simply be riding the sectarian and tokenist wave.
England has suffered 40 years of war against access to the arts and education and many children, regardless of their colour, have been suffering. Most children in England do not play and instrument, can’t read music and don’t do theory including those who play an instrument. If you are from a rich or well-off background, the situation is very different.
Chi Chi does a big disservice to the arts and the disadvantage! Shame on you, Commander! Now, just ‘go away’!
Freedom of association isn’t a thing for black people or gay people then?
Has it occurred to you that your idea of utopia for other people means always being the odd one out?
I sense you meant to write “go home” but thought better of it? What an unpleasant and bigoted readership this publication has.
of course she accepts the award.
I would not wish to hear that wee woke band she attempts to conduct.
They’re ok, but getting funding while better ensembles are having theirs cut.
Yep, wokeism doesn’t care about contradictions… that’s a very weak thinking movement but very powerful and efficient in its unjust matérialisation
Hahahaha! This is my favorite news in a logest time!
“Britons never, never, never will be slaves.” Written in an era when Britain was a proud slave-trading nation. Too bad the song also doesn’t include references to the state sponsored piracy that defined Britain for a few centuries–discretely referred to as privateers which made the rape, arson, and pillage sound a bit more noble. It fit well with the slave trade. It also included the kidnapping of Americans at sea and forcing them into the British navy–also slavery. Certainly nothing to be concerned about even if the UK’s legacy of slavery, piracy, and empire lives with us to this day and is still causing huge problems. Now let’s all bury our heads in the sand, wave our Union Jacks, and chauvinistically bluster about what a hypocrite Nwanaku is.
Well said, ‘Plain Truths’ – a rare piece of honest reflection, and a repudiation of the historical amnesia and vile opinion in the comments that preceded yours.
‘Music lovers’?…..I don’t see much love and affection for anything or anyone in the comments of so many who contribute their thoughts to this site; your post is a reminder that not everyone is like that – thank you. Perhaps, like me, you will save your soul and consign this website, and its unspeakably awful contributors, to Trash.
A simple minded, comic-book view of history.
Pathetic.
Britain outlawed the international slave trade in 1807, and abolished slavery in 1833. Thereafter it spent money and the lives of the Royal Navy’s sailors actively putting it down. That’s, er, nearly 200 years ago. History has moved on, and Britain was part of bringing this about.
“the UK’s legacy of slavery, piracy, and empire lives with us to this day”
It wouldn’t be a ‘legacy’ otherwise, would it?
But if you are really so concerned about slavery, perhaps modern slavery might be worth your attention? Instead, you prefer to go on about a single period in its very long history, ignoring the fact that Britain did more than most to contain it.
Nobody is burying their heads in the sand; discussion of the Atlantic slave trade is impossible to avoid. Shame about the ones we rarely hear about.
““Britons never, never, never will be slaves.” Written in an era when Britain was a proud slave-trading nation.”
Oh dear, facts aren’t your thing. It was written to represent when the Royal Navy became strong enough to stop the Barbary pirates who would take slaves (white folk) from their coastal villages back to Africa. They took a whole villages population from Ireland on one occasion and even went as far as Iceland. Over a million and a quarter Whites were taken as slaves into Africa. Did you not know that? That is what the words are about.
Perhaps Ms Nwanoku is too ignorant to know what ‘CBE’ stands for or, far more likely, is sufficiently hypocritical to happily accept any ‘gong’ that’s offered by BP.
or the many years during which the Royal Navy proactively enforced the abolition of the Slave Trade, on both sides of Africa…..
The point everybody seems to miss is that as an indifferent double bass player, with a life spent scraping away behind a big wooden box that has strings attached, you need to pull every stunt in the book to get noticed. Let alone get air time or any press coverage – regardless of whether it’s good or bad. She’s written the play book on that and lives what she preaches, for sure. Completely Bonkers Entity.
I hope this is not the same Orden that was once given to Sir Edward William Elgar. If it’s the same, then he turned over in his grave.
First we had Meghan who blew up on contact with the royal family. Now Chi-Chi will go the same way?
These are my principles, and if you don’t like them, I have others.’
Groucho Marx.
She’s got more front than
Blackpool seafront!
Two faced double standards me thinks…
She ought to give the MBE back (or be stripped of it) the trouble she’s caused within those she’s bullied
As an ‘outsider’, it seems to me that she’s put on a sort of royalist hat for the occasion – like something you’d see at the Ascot races. I’ll bet she even secretly reads Mary Berry’s “Baking Bible”.