As we celebrate record A-level results for the umpteenth successive year, let’s spare a thought for those BBC Online staff who don’t know the difference between fare and fair.
UPDATED – they’ve changed the page (but not the timestamp, natch)
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Of course, the BBC, in all its coverage of the problems of British young people in:
1.) getting admission into British Universities,
2.) getting jobs,
– doesn’t mention the negative impact of continuing MASS IMMIGRATION on 1.) and 2.).
“10 Reasons our Visa System is Rotten to the Core”
http://www.migrationwatchuk.org/pressArticle/70
“13 per cent rise in Neets ‘linked to immigration'”
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/education/educationnews/7951933/13-per-cent-rise-in-Neets-linked-to-immigration.html
Of course the BBC also fail to point out the pointless subject studied at University these days, funny that listening to the Radio 5 beeboids this morning (all of them went to University) they all seemed to have studied utter shit at uni.
What a waste of time and money, University should for the most part be confined to the brightest and best and concentrate on the real stuff, not crappy bollocks that appeals to drug snorting tools.
It’s not exactly rocket science is it?
Many times I’ve wondered exactly how many employees of South Asian Muslim extraction are to be found working in the relevant Government Departments dealing with these applicants. Can’t anyone within our security services join up the dots here? Oops, that’s not very PC to say, is it?
Then again, you don’t know whether to laugh or cry at the sheer irony of being told to “look into the camera” by a Muslim officer on arrival at UK immigration.How do I know? The headscarf kind of gives it away. Welcome to Britain.
We’re being beseiged – and there’s not one person anywhere in the corridors of power that gives a sh*t and is prepared to do anything about it. Happy days for the BBC.
I have had quite a few dealings with the UK “Immigration Service”, who I have always found to be utterly useless. One funny incident was when , in some desperation, I phoned Croydon and spoke to a Chinese ( British ? ) immigration officer whose english was so bad I couldn’t understand a word and just put the phone down !
You don’t even need to be a British Subject to get a job there.
While watching the video on the BBC website about the Tower of David lightshow- the reporter talks about the Israelis using the French technology of ‘trompe d’oreille’- ??????
Or is it me?
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-10977862
About 1m12 sec
Did he think that ‘trompe l’oeil’ was misspelled and he decided to correct it? Has he never heard of trompe l’oeil?
And trompe-oreille has a completely different meaning.
Dumb BBC? Beware of using foreign words when you don’t know what they mean.
BBC 2 in particular has a habit of getting French words and phrases wrong. Restaurateur foxed them for a long time.
Yes, he did say trompe d’oreille, clearly confusing his ear with his eye. He must have meant trompe l’oeil. He either mispronounced oeil as oreille or lifted the wrong phrase from somewhere, thinking he had the right one.
Amazing.
Has anyone seen this story regarding the local perth judge (yes, Perth Australia) who has ruled a woman should not wear a niqab in court while giving evidence?
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-pacific-11020700
The BBC of course is outraged, but really, how does this make the news homepage of the BBC website? It has barely registered in Australia for god’s sake.
Of more interest however is the BBC spin regarding the case. According to the BBC story:
“The woman is a witness in a case against the head of an Islamic school accused of gaining work funding by inflating student numbers”
This is a grotesque distortion of the reality, as the BBC tries desperately to find excuses for a muslim who has tried (and failed) to work the system. In reality, Mr Sayed is accused of fraudulently stealing up to $750,000 in public funds by artificially inflating student numbers at his school, the Muslim Ladies College in Perth’s southern suburbs.
A very significant difference, yet the BBC think they can get away with LIES, to suit their narrative. Can we ask for a correction??
…and a refund of our licence fee?
I had to laugh at the female beeboid on Radio 5 who proudly stated that girls did better than boys at A Level, except in those silly subject like maths, physics, chemistry etc.
Sure shit subjects like art, history, sociology and the beloved media studies are far more important are they not?
After all why do we want to be a nation of scientists and engineers? You can be a ‘science analyst’ at the BBC with a degree in English or call yourself a ‘climate expert’ with a degree in raping rent boys and snorting cocaine.
Who needs those silly science subjects?
“Sure shit subjects like art, history, sociology and the beloved media studies are far more important are they not?”
Martin, the BBC and its fellow travellers on the left are only interested in controlling the levers of power. To them, if you’ve got the Government, the police, the educationalists and the media all under your thumb, the only thing you have to worry about is the military. The pan-EU army will resolve that little difficulty in due course.
That’s why arts, social sciences and meeja studies are so important to the BBC and its friends on the left.
I am shore the BBC person who wrote that headline is now thinking ‘Its just not fare, I spell checked the headline and their were no mistakes found’. They probably have an English degree as well…
All spelling mistakes above are deliberate…
Nota ” All spelling mistakes above are deliberate “. What spelling mistakes ?
Hope your website is mistake-free Laban!
I would expect Laban’s website to be mistake free if we all had to pay for it !
Another common mistake seen all over the internet these days is bare for bear as in I cannot bare (sic) to listen to him.
I also see seems written as seams, sow (as in reap what you sow) written as sew and heels as heals!
Youngsters coming out of schools now seem to have lost their ability to distinguish between words of different meaning and spelling.
It is alarming to see the same thing with use of prepositions. They use of for everything (even when it doesn’t make sense and jars on the ear) instead of deploying the normal range of everyday prepositions. They are simpy losing their grasp of English and the ability to handle the range of fine distinctions, subtleties and nuances that abound in English.
But they have spell checkers and can do PowerPoint presentations, what more could an employer possibly want?
brains…….
Brains not required at the BBC.
All morning I’ve been hearing from the BBC that the university system is unfair and horrible because there aren’t enough spaces for students who want to excercise their human right to a university education. I keep hearing how unfair the system is, how stressful, how people’s hopes and dreams are dashed by cruel rejection wiithout due cause. These rejections happen, the BBC keeps saying, because the system is unfair in needs fixing.
But just now, as Huw Welshman sets up the repeat of one of the field reports, he said that students who “didn’t get the right grades” are now looking to get into their alternative choices.
So in reality, it’s all about people not getting good enough grades to qualify, not because there aren’t enough slots at universities for every qualified student. This makes me wonder: what’s all this whining about unfairness and “deserving” and all that? Am I missing something?
Look, it’s simple: I wasn’t born as rich as Croesus but I am entitled to what Croesus or anyone else you care to name, has, for the simple reason that Croesus or anyone else you care to name, has it. It’s my human right and you, the State and society, should give it to me. It’s not faaaairrr if you don’t. It doesn’t matter if I haven’t worked for it, don’t deserve it or wouldn’t have a clue how to use it. My hopes and dreams would lie shattered in a thousand pieces and my heart would break in two and it would be all your fault.
Gotcha. 🙂 That’s why this talking head is on the News Channel right now saying that the choice for all these students is either a place at university or the dole queue.
This whole thing is being spun into some kind of unfair system, when in actually they’re not doing well enough in school to earn the spots. Oh, but that concept is about to get spun on its pointy little head.
When challenged on whether or not it’s wise to just send the entire country to university, the Labour talking head suddenly mentions vocational training. But then he says that’s no good because the jobs aren’t there right now, so best thing to do is keep students on the educational dole instead. Then comes the punch line:
Allowing some students to get higher grades than others is the root cause of the problem, and makes him “fear for my country”.
As I said before, it’s not about equality of opportunity, but equality of outcome. Harrison Bergeron will not remain fiction much longer.
How can it be unfair after 13 years of Labour government ?
They have corrected it now.
However, notice the little lie on the “updated” version:
“Page last updated at 09:50 GMT, Thursday, 19 August 2010 10:50 UK”
They read this blog, it’s not the first time their crappy website tossers have screwed up and only when it’s been reported here have the beeboids corrected it.
I guess after a couple of lines of charlie the screen can looked a bit funny.
Typical BBC dishonesty.
Is the BBC re-writing history? I have’nt heard the BBC blame Mandelson once today, it’s all the fault of Tory cuts apparently.
For the first time in many years, the number of university places has been frozen and Lord Mandelson, the Business Secretary whose department is responsible for university policy, has warned universities that they will be fined for over-recruiting students.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/education/universityeducation/6953933/Students-face-rejection-after-Mandelson-university-cuts.html
Justin Webb opened his Twitter account today with a tweet implying that A-level questions ain’t what they used to be. Unfortunatley for Justin he misspelled Jane Austen’s surname.
Perhaps he was thinking of Steve Austin 🙂
Irony duly noted – see my response. 😀
I never thought I would feel sympathy for Ed Balls. But having to deal with the blonde Scottish girl ( Laura?) on Newsnight must have been trying. Her aggressiveness was absurd and counter productive.
We all know why private schools do better than state. Better teachers, more selection, and involved parents and grandparents plus high expectations. Hardly a surprise even to the limited intellect of Laura?
Not a single mention by her of the remaining selective state schools.
She just ignored their existence. No doubt they too produced a high proportion of A star results. A racing certainty in my opinion.
Hardly convenient for the private versus state narrative as written up in the BBC manual for interviewers.
I gave up googling to find what school Laura went to, so I think we can assume it was a private school.
The BBC is not particularly interested in the fate of British students, it is more interested in this:
“BBC charity grant will fund lessons for gypsy children in Derbyshire”
http://www.thisisderbyshire.co.uk/news/BBC-charity-grant-fund-lessons-gypsy-children-Derbyshire/article-2550493-detail/article.html
I couldn’t believe my ears listening to Radio 4’s PM show yesterday (Thursday) which led with the A level results story. I can’t understand why this is a story let alone the main item. Only a few years ago the only media outlets to mention this were the Daily Telegraph and Mail who would always illustrate the story with some pictures of pretty girls getting their results. But all of a sudden this story is now made out to be more important than a war for gods sake.
The PM item had a lengthy interview with a counsellor who specialises in these matters (!!) with the Beebiod asking what a person who hasn’t obtained the results they needed for University should do. The counsellor then gave a rambling speech about “many paths in life” but it kept coming back to the need to go to University. At no point did she say that you could actually find a job instead and that may be a far better course of action than doing a useless degree and loading yourself with debt.
This was a subject that interested me because I spent the afternoon looking through CVs for a trainee position we need to fill at work. Ten years ago the applicants would have been 16 to 18 but now the majority are 21 to 25. Many of them came across as bright and articulate in their CVs but they all had been fooled into taking useless degrees (what the bloody hell is “Digital Media”) at ex-Polys. Then 3 years later and with a hell of lot of debt I just hope they realise they have been had as they compete with 16 and 18 year olds for jobs.
In the past these waste of space degrees would have gotten people jobs as ‘One legged Lesbian transgender nappy condom advisers’ of which the one eyed mong put about 1 million on the Country payroll.
The moronic statements that come from the BBC are endless. One beeboid stated to someone who didn’t go to university “don’t you think you’re missing out on the chats in the students union bar”
Really is that what it’s all about (along with some good drugs of course)?
Most probably, Martin, as to them the BBC probably seems to be just like a continuation of university anyway.
You have it exactly. The BBC is a continuation of school for perpetual students.
Look no further than the likes of Richard Bacon and Vicci (“I’m Victoria”) Derbyshire.
You are all making it sound even more attractive than it actually was 😎