Banning 'Delilah' from Welsh rugby would be laughable if it were not so serious ✒️ GARSIDEK
Tom Jones’ hit, with its misogynistic overtures, will no longer be played embrace of cancel culture has the look of a knock-on under the posts, a calamitous, bumbling failure however grand the ambition. So “Delilah” will be sung no more, the instruction coming from a regulatory body reeling from an expose into its own misogynistic and sexist failings. As every philosopher from Plato to Richard Littlejohn might scream: “You could not make it up”.
In 1968, the Tom Jones “hit” was considered worthy of the Ivor Novello award for “Best Song Musically and Lyrically”. Clearly a tune glorifying the behaviour of a murderous male brandishing a knife at a woman’s door is going to shrivel under the laser gaze of early 21st century moral coding, as it must.
What we know now is that the attitudes and mores that informed the view of women and the entitlement of men when Sir Tom was king of the Valleys continue to pervert the culture of the WRU, the custodian of Wales’ national sport.
An internal probe into the complaints of Ms Watham, who left the WRU early last year, followed after she formerly reported the episode in 2019. Though a settlement was finally reached in December 2022, Ms Watham took leave of absence in 2021 to protect her mental health. The employee who allegedly made the rape remark is still on the WRU pay roll.
The incident, plus further serious complaints involving racism and bullying as well as sexism, led to the
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