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Rally against Debt has been renamed by the BBC as a ‘Rally for cuts’
Classic! 😀
‘Debt is dandy’ dontcha know? The Public Sector Deficit is nothing to worry about.
It will end in tears – probably ours. My admiration for those at the rally raising the issue, in contrast to the BBC and most of the MSN.
CUT DEEPER!
Anyone who’s job title contains the word ‘equality’, ‘diversity’ or ‘climate’ should be sacked immediately!
Don’t forget ‘correspondent’.
And “Editor”.
Beyond being more than the Charter would seem to allow, I find such advocacy by the BBC very odd, as shunting vast impositions onto future generations for short term selfish gains seems to have been glossed over.
That point has been made a lot here:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00zzwv6
One wonders if it will be featured much here:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b011dj30
Answers on the back of a licence-fee, propping up bad investments in index-linked pensions in some quarters.
Possibly some BBC reality is made more real than others?
You cannot win with the BBC. Today they are trying to scare us with the claim that higher gas prices will result in people freezing to death because thay cannot afford to heat their homes.
Tomorrow it will be back to we are all going to die because the weather is getting a little warmer.
Don’t worry, all the “Climate Change Farmers” will see us right, with their subsidised food-slurry silos, and the mediterranean climate expected soon in a district near you will make all the difference – you won’t need gas, just somewhere to grow vines (and windmills) and lashings of Ambre Solaire.
You obviously listened to Open Country this morning.
Good to see the government appears to be getting wise to the guaranteed profit at public expense that the snouts in the trough green energy mafia are (were?) counting on.
One point about the food waste generator featured. At least it can be set up to be a 24hr energy source rather than the PVs which only produce in daylight and generate less in the winter when demand is highest. Wind also tends to produce less in the winter when the continental high pressure tends to produce periods of relative calm and cold at the same time!
P. S. I assume the food waste generators, being 24hr, do not require back up conventional generation capacity.
And, of course, there are the BBC greenies lobbying against drilling in Britain for shale gas.
Ron,
And of course enrgy from wind farms will be so much cheaper than gas.
The True Finns, who came from nowhere to win around 20% of the vote in the Finnish general election, are anti-immigration, Eurosceptic and strongly pro-Israel. You might expect the BBC not to like them, even though they are left-wing economically, according to Wikipedia. They seem to have a broad appeal and Dan Hannan describes them as “centrist”. I was expecting a hatchet job on them from Tuesday’s Newsnight, but David Grossman’s report was no such thing. Even his academic ‘talking head’ conceded that they’re a ‘moderate’ party.
However, by Thursday’s Newsnight we were back on more familiar BBC territory with Kirsty Wark describing them simply as “far-right”. It’s the old story: If something different comes along that you don’t like the sound of and don’t really understand, such as the Tea Party, stick a scary label on it.
Like the David Grossman piece, BBC Online posted a profile of the True Finn’s leader Timo Soino that was fair-minded rather than hostile. The BBC reporter, Patrick Jackson, notes though that “Liberals portray Mr Soini as xenophobic, accusing his party of beating a drum over immigration.”
Just as Newsnight let itself down, so did BBC Online by simultaneously posting an ‘analysis’ by a clearly very hostile academic called Jan Sundberg. Prof. Sundberg must himself be a “liberal” because he accuses the True Finns of “xenophobia” and says of one of their policies that it is “like a faint echo of Nazi ideology”. (Wikipedia records a second instance of him making such a comparison and, it seems, gaining some notoriety for so doing). His article now carries a correction due to an error he made about the True Finns wanting a ban on the teaching of Swedish in schools. They don’t. I’ve seen plenty of such ‘analyses’ by ‘independent experts’ on the BBC News website, plenty clearly politically from the Left, but never seen one by someone from the Right. Has anyone else?
This “right wing” thing is a real probelm in Beebland.
Last week John Humphrys referred to Bernard Jenkin as right wing at the start of his introduction( 7/5/11).
Jenkin listed all the issues that showed him not to be right wing,but John was having none of it. He was to the right of Ken Clarke ,so this turns out to be the working defintion of what constitutes “right wing” at the BBC.
Presumably “left wing” would have to be to the left of Joe Stalin…because I never hear any of the BBC luvvies describing their mates as such!
I’ve also noticed that the BBC, when quoting a sane and sensible think-tank often describe them as ‘right-wing’, but a left-wing think-tank is very rarely referred to as such, and, of course, are quoted much more frequently.
I bloggd about this vey matter a few days back – http://notasheepmaybeagoat.blogspot.com/2011/05/another-example-of-how-bbc-describe.html – and garneed a very angry anonymous commeter who wanted proof. Unfortunatel it seems that his comments were lost in the great Blogger outage.
The BBC news led with the coalition of the willing-FoE, Oxfam,Greenpeace wanting Cameron to hoist the rainbow flag very firmly to the BBC transmitter if he`d be so kind!
Turns out that only by doing this would his government be regarded as “the greenest ever”.
Will someone tell me what Oxfam are doing here?…weren`t they directing the troops in AfPak earlier in the week? Is there no end to their capacity for chugging at quango conflabs anywhere in the world?
Luckily they`ve got the time,now that world hunger is a thing of the past then!
Oh-and doncha know? Al Quada were all having their green teas and relaxing when the Americans stirred the hive again…so they`ve got no choice now but to start their unpleasantness again!
Naughty Obama…
The BBC will of course give us that helpline number they`ve got, should I have raised any issues here!
Remarkable that this was the story the editors at the BBC News website thought was the second most important story in the world for much of this morning. (From such heady heights, it’s now pretty much dropped out of sight.)
The online article, which is quite long, gives just three paragraphs to the case for the defence (two of them are just short, single sentences), but gives the prosecution – all those campaign groups, the Friends of the Earth spokesman and the Labour Party – 18 paragraphs. Not very balanced. Surely the government spokesman had more to say than that?
(The BBC sub-editor probably had a bit of a giggle with one of the sub-headlines, 60% cuts (confuse people into thinking it was about Toricutz?), and clearly thought that Cabinet split was the best choice for the other sub-headline).
Oxfam, a political pressure group and a cover for political extremists who use charitable status as a tax dodge.
Fake charities or charities begun with laudable aims infiltrated and subverted to provide a platform for extremist political acticities.
Oxfam
Greenpiss
Fiends of the earth
WWF
All now taken over and used as political pressure groups to peddle a truly grotesque and ugly creed, hard left, Marxist new world order with a common purpose. I would urge you to tell everyone you know about these groups, I wouldnt give these scum a penny and if people really knew what these scumbags were getting upto then few would give to their cause.
Of course the BBC is in bed with these groups, they share information and work closely to spread each others poisonous narratives. If we have real deadly enemies out to destroy us then these groups are they. Every day the BBC is relentless in is determination to peddle these groups poison.
cj,
And like the BBC they have to pay extremely high remuneration packages for “Chief Executives” to attract high quality people in the “Market Place “.
Whenever I get stopped in the street by the reps of these ‘charities’ I make a point of asking what their CEO earns. Of course, the well-meaning yoof who spend all day asking people for money never think about these things. I don’t blame them; it’s not their fault their Marxist indoctrination began in our state primary schools.
RCE,
Funny I do exactly the same. I also ask how much pay and commission they get for collecting.
The big charities in the UK are a total racket.
One of the reasons i resigned from the rSPB some years ago was when their balance sheet showed far more invested on stock markets than in Bird Reserves.
Mostly not well-meaning youth but on-commission ‘chuggers’.
Given all the drool and drivel regarding the cuts and us all not being green enough, I myself am worried about the lack of bias that may result from the BBC overusing its stock of hackneyed cliches, caricatures too fast and too wastefully.
There is surely only so much trite and lazy platitude easily available at the surface, and I do fear for future prep school interns if the Beeboids continually use up the supply of faux-outrage and patronising bull at its current rate.
Maybe we need a bias tax, or a sanctuary where prejudices are conserved and nursed back to something approaching their natural state.
In any event let us hope that they harvest their bile,acid, cold shoulders a little more efficiently. Their Bias needs conserving, and there is only so much to go round!
Adrian Goldberg of whom I had never heard fronted a programme on Radio 5 Listeners.
He sounds like a cross between Cheggers and Timmy Mallett but without their intellectual heft. The topic of Cameron’s improvement to the Military Covenant came up, in particular that ex-soldiers might have preferred access to social housing.
‘Don’t forget’, dribbled Goldberg, ‘this would mean they might be given preference over more deserving cases’.
He then ladled it on with a passion”
‘Some listeners would argue… there are people out there who believe… many would take the view…illegal wars… invading sovereign nations… not sympathetic’.
‘Phone in if you disagree with me’, he said, ‘before quickly correcting himself to ‘phone in if you disagree with the view that…’
At this stage his pro-army guests went ‘aha’.
Which shows that his guests clearly don’t have a lot to do with the BBCC and don’t realise that ‘there are many who argue’ is just droid-speak for ‘here’s my opinion’.
Vile individual whom I will never hear again.
I think I’ll go off to ARRSE and post this. With any luck there’ll be a couple of sizeable squaddies on leave who know where he lives and pop round to administer a well-deserved kicking (boots 2 prs Dunlop moulded sole)
I am familiar with Adrian Goldberg’s programmes as he used to be the Breakfast Show presenter on BBC WM in the West Midlands, and currently does a Saturday morning phone-in show on the same station. To be fair he does seem to have mellowed of late, and doesn’t seem as rabidly left wing as he used to be. I do however remember one programme several years ago when he invited listeners to nominate their favourite Midlander – one chap suggested Enoch Powell! Goldberg promptly threw his rattle out of the pram and wouldn’t allow the the nomination because Powell was a WAYYYCIST!
I suppose it’s a case of “Once a Beeboid, always a Beeboid”.
Goldberg subbed for Stephen Nolan on Radio 5Live on the weekend of the student riots. For three nights, the riots were discussed. For three nights, Goldberg forgot to tell his audience about the far-left background of guests who were defending the rioting thugs.
Bupendra,
Yes, ARRSE is a briliant website if you want to read what the British soldiers really think about the politicians and MoD. To put it mildly, it is not very flattering !
A bit after the event but the reporter gleefully telling us on the World Tonight last night about the fantastic growth in the EU only told us what the figures for Germany and France were (more than ours of course) and then added on the end that Greece surprisingly grew 1% compared with our (tee here) only 0.5%.
Can anyone on here remember the BBC reporting our 0% growth for the previous quarter comparing well with the – whatever % it was for Greece.
Thought not.
Where did the ‘growth come from I wonder? It couldnt be the inflow and expenditure of the EUs magic money could it? This magic money does not last long and when the socialists have frittered it away and they come back for more even as most Greeks evade taxes and the parasite class cling onto their salaries and perks and money making scams.
Why should the Greeks pay taxes when they see their socialist political class thieving and stealing and living high on the hog? Still no mention from the BBC about which Greek regime has done so much to smash the Greek economy though and which leftist rent a rabble union scum have hampered any efforts to solve the onrushing disaster. The BBC and world socialism working hand in hand.
Am I correct in thinking that France and Germany didn’t run up massive deficits like Britain (Brown) and the US (Obama)?
Oh – Oh !
A weekend dilema for the junior BBC interns.
Wise President Obama in his Radio address has given his own reasons as to why the US should “Drill – baby – drill” in Alaska, albeit on a very small scale and of course in a very careful way.
Greenpeace – who have never been wrong about anything – have just come out and said this is an absurd idea which will result in an environmental disaster.
As Obama and Greenpeace are on the first page of the BBC “hero worship” book and there is George Dubua to blame for this proposed lunacy, how will the infants cope in covering this story for the BBC before the Vintage Idiots get back on monday ?
An assignation programme on BP perhaps ?
This evening I’ve been listening to Wagner’s Die Walkure on Radio 3
from the New York Met. Just had a look at the schedule online to see what time it finishes and my eye caught the introductory text.
Mark the manner in which it is written, though. I know Radio 3 tries to be very chummy these days, for fear of being thought “elitist” or something but there are degrees of formality and informality to suit every place and occasion and this is like something written in the throwaway flippant style and lazy informal cliched phrases (bedhopper, kids, stalk the stage causing havoc, tears before bedtime, his missus, Big Sister, as sure as eggs is eggs, what he put his wife through) that you would expect on say, an informal internet chatter forum. I can’t help wondering if it was written by someone who was high on some sort of substances, alcoholic or otherwise, who had forgotten what they were supposed to be doing and thrown off all restraint and judgement. It’s almost like something done for a joke.
” The Met’s lavish production of Wagner’s epic four-opera Ring reaches its second instalment, Die Walküre.
If only Top God and serial philanderer Wotan had been able to keep his trousers on, he would have saved himself a great deal of trouble. As it is, eleven of his children stalk the stage, causing havoc in one way or another. Nine of them have chosen the career path of warrior-maidens – the Valkyries – including their leader (and Wotan’s favourite) Brünnhilde. The other two are a pair of twins, Siegmund and Sieglinde. They have chosen the rather more questionable use of their time to be lovers – a relationship not only incestuous but also adulterous, since Sieglinde is already married. Wotan sends Big Sister Brünnhilde to guard the lovers, much to the chagrin of his missus, Fricka. Chagrin, because her job (ironically enough considering what her husband has put her through) is Goddess of the Sanctity of Marriage. Throw in a magic sword and the usual disobedience a father can expect from his kids and, sure as eggs is eggs, there’ll be tears before bedtime.
The no-expense-spared cast includes Bryn Terfel as the prodigious bed-hopper Wotan and Stephanie Blythe as his long-suffering wife, Fricka. Deborah Voight is the disobedient daughter and protective sister Brünnhilde, and Eva Maria Westbroek and Jonas Kaufmann the incestuous twins, Siegmund and Sieglinde. James Levine conducts.”
The interval discussion from the Met, which you could expect to be in somewhat informal conversational anguage is expressed more articulately and informatively, in more formal and thoughtful language than this pathetic hackneyed unilluminating drivel.
Good God above! Wagner for the Facebook generation- I never thought I would live to see it. On second thoughts I wish I hadn’t………
There was a sub-headline on the BBC news website yesterday that said:
“Afghan ‘soldier’ kills NATO duo”
‘Duo‘? ‘Duo’?!?!
They make me sick.
BBC dumbing down again. Yes, lowest common denominator jargon will make this relevant to the masses, uh-huh. Never mind about the underlying message that lust for power will corrupt one to the lowest levels of depravity, which is the whole point of Fricka’s scolding of Wotan, and a key turning point in his story. Children in charge.
This is the same BBC that was against giving cheap opera tickets to the masses only because it was done by The Sun.
I’m listening to it as well, although via a non-BBC feed. Still not sure about Kaufmann. I wasn’t so excited about him in last year’s Bayreuth Tannhäuser either.
MT
Later on in this year’s NYMT season’s productions (aired on R3) will be Bizet’s Carmen.
Now I like you MT, but I am trying to sell myself to the BBC for a rather large “on message which bank do you want your cheque sent to” preview.
So :
Sexually abused left-wing multi-culturist woman duped by Western Imperialists who were enjoying harmless drug dealing down by the docks.
Drunken US Navy Seals decide to kill her in accordance with Sharia Law.
Will this do ?
Millie,
Come on, you can’t fool us, you made that quote up !
Don Giovanni,
” Aristocratic sex addict and heartbreaker, abuses women and working class servant, fails to attend rehab and dies in mysterious circumstances “.
Link to the Radio 3 website’s intro to Wagner.
(Is that red background the result of a collective blush by the Radio 3 collective? One can only hope.)
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0112crw
And in case anyone has ever wondered who is in charge of Radio 3, here is a link to the blog – with photo – of the Controller, one Roger Wright
http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/radio3/roger_wright/
The BBC just keeps on finding new ways to irritate.
And if the aim is to make Wagner more appealing to the baseball hat brigade, that is not the way to do it. Wagner is a niche market and, frankly, I don’t want any more competition for rare Ring tickets.
Devious little piece on the Today prog at 08.50 today. Which group has been settling in the UK for 50 years? Integrates well? Forms a large part of the professional classes? No strictures on what women can and can’t do? Celebrates own religious festivals and ours? Well that’s what I thought too about Indians. However the BBBC chooses to ignore all this, and rake up the fact that there were those in India who sided with Hitler in an attempt to gain independence. Any fool knows that in war there’ll be those whom you expect to be on your side, but who aren’t. But detail aside, just what prompted this nasty, snide bit of muck raking?
Hindus just aren’t as exciting a Muslims nd they rarely go on the rapage eiter. They generally work hard and have middle class aspirations. Yes, just like the Jews, theyreally are notthe BBC’s kind of people!
I’m not aware of any problems with the Chinese integrating, either.
Hugh,
Most of them are not muslims.
@Grant
Yes I understand that. I have contact with many Indians in my work, and like every schoolboy, I learnt about the creation of Pakistan. My take on this, is that Hindus and Sikhs are now a strong political class in the UK and that they hve even less time for separatist Moslems than the rest of us. Knowing this, the BBBC will take every opportunity to undermine them.
Hugh – I’d go further than that. Hindus and Sikhs are extremely worried about militant Islam.
RCE – I’m not so sure about Chinese integration though. They maintain a fair degree of separation but have perfected the skill of not pissing off the host community. Nobody seems to mind them and their kids raise the level of local schools.
Barry – exactly. They maintain their own culture, which I for one don’t object to, but are also a net benefit to society. If I moved to another culture that was markedly different I would aspire to do just this (rather than go around blowing the natives to pieces and threatening to behead shop girls who didn’t wear what I told them to).
Hugh,
Sorry. I meant the BBC don’t like Indians because most of them are not muslims. I wasn’t questioning your knowledge !!!
INBBC finally gets there: yes, they’re Muslims:
“US charges six with aiding Pakistani Taliban”
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-13401116
For BBC-Democrat: SARAH PALIN vindicated (but not mentioned)-
“Obama: US will seek oil in Alaska and Gulf of Mexico”
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-13399360
-from March 2010:
“Sarah Palin makes sense — on offshore drilling”
http://voices.washingtonpost.com/postpartisan/2010/05/sarah_palin_makes_sense_–_on.html
You beat me to it, George. That’s two things in two weeks that The Obamessiah has done with which I agree but the BBC hates. Really amusing to watch them these days.
Hey, BBC:
Was it a violation of whatever laws you’re all whining about over Bin Laden’s killing back when we shot down Yamamoto’s plane? If not, why not? Please show your work.
And what about the British trained agents sent in to assassinate Heydrich?
Or when OBL himself took out Massoud?
An Independent SCOTLAND?
Will BBC-NUJ pick up on this eventually?
“Alex Salmond is ‘misleading’ Scots about independence, says constitutional expert”
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/scotland/8512843/Alex-Salmond-is-misleading-Scots-about-independence-says-constitutional-expert.html
Surely the whole of the United Kingdom should have a say if it comes to it? The Act of Union was entered into by Scotland and England and the Scots just cannot unilaterally repudiate it. I am no lawyer but the whole SNP position seems to be a charade.
dave s,
Agreed, but Cameron doesn’t have the balls to call a UK-wide referendum now.
I think there’s a danger that if Cameron is seen to do it to spike the SNP’s guns, the voters will treat it as a referendum on him and vote accordingly.
The English would vote to get rid of the Scots. I’d bet my (unfortunately non-BBC) pension on it.
IRAQ:
BBC capitulated to Labour.
[Extract, bold type added]:
“John Kampfner, who was a political correspondent on [BBC] Today but left before the 2003 controversy, said the BBC should have done more to stand up to the New Labour government. ‘There was absolutely no willingness on behalf of the governors to do anything but raise the white flag,’ he said. ‘It was a wholesale capitulation instead of what should have been a partial expression of regret for certain procedures of oversight with an agreement to disagree on the substance and [an expression of] support for courageous journalism.’ What was already a cautious news organisation took on a culture of being fearful of “sticking your neck out”, he said.”
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/media/tv-radio/iraq-evidence-vindicates-bbcs-dossier-claims-2283878.html
Also:
“Christopher Bland: A gross media manipulation that has eroded public trust in Government”
[Extract]:
“The newspapers generally were ambivalent, torn between a healthy scepticism about the Government’s manipulation of the media and schadenfreude at the extreme discomfiture of the BBC, although it was arguably The Independent’s brilliant blank ‘Whitewash’ front page that did most to turn the tide of the debate. Within the BBC, internal rivalries meant that Panorama’s and Newsnight’s coverage of the whole affair was remarkably unsympathetic to the Corporation.”
http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/commentators/christopher-bland-a-gross-media-manipulation-that-has-eroded-public-trust-in-government-2283896.html
{ Bland is an ex-BBC Chairman.]
Theres been a few comments that mention ‘Newsnight’ who the hell still watches it?! Not only is it tired, cliched, half-baked-left-drivel, the presenters are totally not fit for purpose any more – totally played out, knackered – and they know it.
Its weariness is pathetic and no amount of infantile ‘graphics’/gimmicks can hide how much its out of step with the new world opinion.
And while I am at it – I do sense the anti liberal/left groundswell growing. They know theyve been complete tools since they were kids – they could never admit it!
Maybe its time for B-BBC officiandoes to demonstrate!?
Tired, played out, indeed. That’s why they keep adding that annoying noise (I won’t call it music) while a reporter or narrator is speaking. They must be desperate. As if that is going to make it interesting or make people turn to Newsnight who wouldn’t otherwise do so! And it makes me turn it off.
You mentioned the presenters but what about the guests? Why do they keep recycling the same few all the time? Simon Hughes is never off there, for example. (Well, on the occasions I turn it on, anyway.) I am sure we could compile a list of the same old faces who never fail to get a berth. That as much as anything is what makes it so tired and predictable.
Millie,
The BBC add mindless , irrelevant, music to everything !
I know they do, Grant. It spoils everything and just causes irritation.
Millie,
There is an excellent documentary being shown on BBC4 ,on the History of Christianity, on Sunday evenings. The teenagers at the BBC can’t resist drowning out the commentary with mindless Muzak . Why ? I wonder if they would do it to a documentary on Islam ?
How the bBC really hates how the Queen is visiting Eire.
If you didn’t know the Queen of Great Britain is visiting Sothern Ireland and the bBCs Fergal Keane has written an article about the shared history of these two countries:
Ireland and the Empire: Divided by a shared history
The Queen’s visit to Ireland will not only highlight the historical divisions between the UK and the Republic, it will also bring to mind the days when troops from both sides fought for the British Empire in African battlefields… Many, if not most, were the so-called “shilling-a-day” men whose fathers and grandfathers had served the British Empire, not out of patriotic fervour but to feed their families, or escape the misery of the tenement slums of Dublin or Galway or Cork.... Only now, with the advent of the peace process and the profound changes that have taken place north and south of the Irish border, is it possible for the story of the Irish and the Empire to be told.
Wow, I never knew that the Irish killed blackmen in Africa in order to conquer even more land for the evil bastards who occupied their land. But then I also don’t know anything about the Irish men who fought for the British in World War 2 (70,000) that doesn’t include the 200,000 who moved to the UK to work in our factories or even the Irish already residing in the Uk. In contrast to the 60,000 French troops evacuated to the Uk when France fell to the Nazis, only 3000 put their hands up to join the free French.
Then there’s the current state of affairs with lots of Irish people from south of the border serving in the British armed forces. I know quite a few, but hey if the bBC says that there isn’t any links, I mean the Irish have been awarded the second highest number of VCs after the Uk with 188 of which 8 were won during the Second World War. (Ireland became Ireland in 1922) and then there’s the matter of a certain Arthur Wellesley granted he came from an Ascendancy family. But he was still an Irish man.
Seems the bBC really can’t be doing with the Uk being on friendly terms with those it used to rule over. Maybe there lies the reason of the African angle.
Wonder if the BBC will mention the UK helping to bail out Eire during their recent economic “difficulties” ?
I see Sky news are reporting that , that so called guest house where 11 imans were sent to the great mosque in the sky by a NATO strike was actually a command and control bunker. ANd how do they know this. They interview a dutchman who helped build it (and the building above it -it was turned intoo a guest house-in 1988)
Meanwhile the bBC is still reporting the libyan Government version.
Ask yourself this question, in a country at war, would a dictator allow over 50 Imans to hold a meeting near the front line? Seeing as how movement is usually constrained at wartime, esp near the front line. Questions that Sky asked and the bBC didn’t.
On a brighter note(for us) I wonder how the BBC will report Huhnes hopefully imminent downfall?
Perverting the course of justice, using emotional blackmail to twist the arm of the accuser and being taped doing it. Of course Huhne is one the BBC/CAGW cults own, he is one of them and a fellow traveller. It wil be truly heartwarming to witness Huhne getting his just desserts.
Just another greasy spiv on the make and on the take?
Cassie,
Apparently the police computer doesn’t store records going back to the time of Huhn’s alleged offence of getting someone else to take the rap for him speeding. At least that is what Mr. Plod says !
Well, if the Marrshmallow show is anything to go on, it’s all a right wing newspaper plot.
One is sure that, post Polanski, our Jules, this IMF guy, etc, the best thing to do is either ignore or dismiss.
However, anything from less favoured political or social directions will be rushed out as a ‘sources are saying..’, ‘critics are claiming’, row-spun orgy of BBC huffery and puffery.
Yes, Andrew Marr, Sandi Toksvig and Simon Hoggart seemed to be trying to pour as much cold water over the story as possible:
Andrew Marr: “The newspapers are clearly kind of going for him.”
Simon Hoggart: “Yes they’re really, really going for him”.
Sandi Toksvig: “But doesn’t this feel like someone trying to blacken Chris Huhne? Is there some attempt to dis the man?”
Andrew Marr: “It’s still a very complicated-looking story at this stage.”
Simon Hoggart: ..”except that they haven’t really nailed…”
Andrew Marr: “We don’t quite know what’s going on. We probably better clear our throats and move briskly on to the next story”.
As we suspected all along the ‘human rights’ mental illness has almost completed its transition into actively helping and assisting criminality.
A man asks to marry a woman, the woman refuses so that man throws acid in her face, think about the crime and think about the purest evil, a crime so evil in intent it can hardly be fathomed. This man ruined the entire life of this woman just as he had planned to do.
The BBC are now reporting that ‘there is a massive outcry by as yet unamed ‘human rights’ organisations, there is we are informed a massive outcry condemning the right of the woman to blind the attacker with acid.
A massive outcry is defence of a man who throws acid in the face of an innocent woman simply because she did not wish to marry him. A womans entire life ruined and the BBC reports a massive outcry and international pressure and human rights action.
Now consider for a moment the fact that thousands of women are horribly mutilated each year by men throwing acid in the faces of women, where is the human rights? Where is the international outcry? Where is the BBC?
Remember that theBBC is not actually naming the human rights organistaions nor are they telling exacly what this international outcry consists of. All this to protect a man who ruins the life of an innocent woman?
Classic BBC this one!
Even the woman herself said that she believed “Human Rights” had been involved!
Pray tell-who the hell ARE they?..do they sit on the Lebanese border because the Syrians won`t give them visas or what?
These weasel phrases like “sources have confirmed” “a growing sense of anger” are classic BBC techniques to smear ther lube all over the truth…and then deny it`s what THEY made up!
More chance of justice in Iran than in the EU?-thanks Ted!
Another popular opening gambit is “People are saying”, a Today favourite.
I would challenge this if I were interviewed by the BBC: “Which people are saying?”, and wait for the inevitable roll-call of Labour MPs, left-wing think-tanks, Guardian, EU, UN, arch hypocrite Toynbee, and no doubt their drinking partners down at the Cock and Bull.
It’s always puzzled me why any sane and right-thinking person when faced with this loaded preface, doesn’t pull up the BBC about it. I would.
“Which people are saying?”
It would be priceless to hear that and the blustering that would follow.
Maybe Michael Gove will do it one of these days to Humphrys.
Yes, no doubt there would be blustering if they were challenged on it, and I would pull them up on that, too, Ms Tant, as well as relish the opportunity to let Humphrys have a dose of his own medicine.
Maggie Thatcher, once when James Naughtie used this line with her, responded “But why would anyone say such a thing?” Then proceeded to explain why it would be such a silly thing for anyone to say.
The following day on a call-in on John Major’s premiership, a caller called in saying that Maggie seemed “impregnable .. the other day she mopped the floor with Jim Naughtie”.
hippie,
Yes, Maggie would know that Naughtie had invented the quote. If anything , journalists are even more dishonest than politicians. I don’t believe a word unless it is independently verified
No ‘rally for cuts’ at BBC-NUJ, as ‘Mail’ reveals some Beeboid financial activities:
1.)
“BBC gives ‘wooden’ Henman £200k – for two weeks’ work as Wimbledon commentator ”
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1387215/BBC-gives-wooden-Henman-200k–weeks-work-Wimbledon-commentator.html#ixzz1MP8TPpJl
2.)
“Public spending chief Steve Bundred’s £90 lunch with BBC’s Evan Davis”
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1387181/Public-spending-chiefs-90-lunch-BBCs-Evan-Davis.html#ixzz1MP8ysRd3
3.)
“The curious links between the BBC’s new chairman Chris Patten and the ex-BP boss who interviewed him for the job ”
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1387228/The-curious-links-BBC-s-new-chairman-Chris-Patten-ex-BP-boss-interviewed-job.html#ixzz1MP9L0GuQ
From the DM article,
Tory MP Philip Davies:
‘Appointing him was a step backwards because whereas the BBC has started to acknowledge that in the past their impartiality on issues like Europe, climate change and the Middle East hasn’t been all it should have been, Lord Patten has made it perfectly clear that he thinks the BBC’s impartiality is beyond reproach and that they don’t have to make any changes whatsoever to what they do.’
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1387228/The-curious-links-BBC-s-new-chairman-Chris-Patten-ex-BP-boss-interviewed-job.html#ixzz1MPDfB5Bi
Has the BBC started to acknowledge that?
I saw that article about Henman’s pay last night and was going to post about it.
As pointed out, the doubling of his pay this year is not dictated by the market:
Last night John O’Connell, a spokesman for the TaxPayer’s Alliance, which represents licence-fee payers, called on the BBC to justify Henman’s new deal.
He said: ‘This is a huge amount of licence-fee payers’ money for a fortnight’s work, especially when the BBC are supposed to be cutting its sports budget.
‘The BBC has exclusive rights to the tournament so there are no market pressures for the payment to run this high, but it’s ordinary families that will foot the bill.
‘Auntie must work harder to make sure that contracts for stars and talent are negotiated with taxpayers’ interests in mind.’
The Beeboid Corporation refused to discuss it, saying, “We never comment on talent pay”.
Hah! Now there’s a misuse of the language if ever there was one. Henman is a woeful commentator and has no talent for it at all which was amply evident to all even before they employed him, never mind after. A robot would have ten times more animation and interesting comment than Henman’s deadly monotone drone.
The Beeboid Corporation is supposed to be reducing the £300m sports budget by £60m, it says in the article. Yet they still have money to throw around like this! And it’s not just Henman, either. I get the impression they employ every single English tennis player who retires from playing. They can’t really need them all and they can’t all be suitable!
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1387215/BBC-gives-wooden-Tim-Henman-200k-2-weeks-Wimbledon-commentator.html#ixzz1MQjOWxR0
The appalling Broadcasting House-hangover chatter of the interns, whilst all the BBC bigwigs are at church!
“B.H” tells me about the IMF boss that is in a cell regarding a sex charge.
Only in Beebland would this be considered in terms of “his chances of being the next French socialist Presidential candidate”…only in the BBC would his being replaced by Gordon Brown at some stage be up for discussion.
What a bunch of gallant,sensitive charmers they are…any chance of jenni Murray doing something about this “Slut Walk” rehearsal in a Manhattan hotel corridor then…it was a posh hotel if that helps get Jennis interest…maybe a free trip out there girls?
The same programme had a very incestuous segment about whether citizen journalism is making old-fashioned reporters redundant (or at least that was what the introduction said it was going to be about).
It was presented by old-fashioned reporter (and guest presenter) Alan Little, who began by playing us lots of clips from the archive to remind us of the BBC’s past glories and then went off to talk to…Jeremy Bowen.
The pair recalled their own past glories and Jeremy Bowen said that his kind of reporting beats just sitting in front of your computer because it’s betting at geting at ‘the truth’.
And that was it really. No contrary point of view extolling the virtues of citizen journalism, just a pair of BBC stalwarts loudly singing their own praises – plus getting in a sly dig at Peter Sissons for good measure!
‘Jeremy Bowen’ and ‘the truth’, you say?
Jeremy Bowen explained that being a journalist on the ground enabled him to experience and pick up news that he wouldn’t get via computer – he gave the example of a small child in Libya who explained that her father and various other relations had been killed whilst demonstrating – Jeremy did not explain how he got this verified and he falls for the Palastinian/pro-Gadaffi narrative every time – it is probably why he has never understood ‘Pallywood Productions’.
‘a small child in Libya who explained’
Translation… just one of the market rate talents not possessed by one the the folk picked to be at the top of a very important brief requiring total impartiality and an appreciation of nuance and cultural differences.
It was also time for BH‘s monthly ‘Derry Diary’ again. Just a reminder of the previous months’ diaries:
April 11 – interview with a “teenage republican” from the political wing of the Real IRA, attacks British “interference” in Northern Ireland
March 11 – an interview with a Protestant girl who dated a Catholic boy, to the disapproval of both communities (no political views expressed)
February 11 – an interview with the father of a republican sent to prison for throwing a petrol bomb at police during a loyalist march, attacks British justice
January 11 – an interview with some pop musicians about music in the city (no political views expressed)
December 10 – an interview with an American civil rights lawyer who attended the Bloody Sunday inquiry and was now having nightmares about British soldiers carrying out atrocities
November 10 – a former IRA man tells a ‘funny story’ about how the IRA got one over on the British army.
October 10 – a North African immigrant resolves to stay in the city after his kebab shop is damaged by a Real IRA bomb
This month we heard from a Presbyterian minister whose church had been suffering from severe vandalism (mostly sectarian in origin) and whose congregation had been forced to move elsewhere. Thankfully the problem has now been solved, sectarian vandalism has gone and the congregation feels safe to worship there again. And there’s one man they had to thank for it… Sinn Fein’s Martin McGuiness (who popped round for a chat, went away, said the word and the vandalism stopped).
The minister said of McGuiness, “Since then I have invited him round to my house and we engage in a very comfortable way and I’ve grown to like the man and I have to tell you I see him as my friend.”
It’s a good news story, but it’s hardly allaying suspicions of a pro-republican bias on the programme’s part to make Martin McGuiness the hero/fairy godmother in the chosen story!
Odd how Mcguiness could stop the problem just like that, it’s not as though he is or ever was an IRA godfather and they might be scared of him. No it’s all down to the power of peace; makes me sick!
The bBC , its hatred of Israel and Nakba day
Israeli forces ‘open fire’ on Gaza, Syria borders
Israeli forces have fired on groups of protesters at border points with Gaza and on the Golan Heights border with Syria, reports say.The Israeli military said it opened fire on the Golan Heights as a group tried to breach the border. Reports said at least 10 were injured.At least 15 Palestinians were injured when Israeli forces fired at a group approaching a Gaza border crossing. Palestinians are marking the Nakba, or “catastrophe”, of Israel’s founding.
Very interesting news report from the bBC about Israeli troops shooting down protest. Reading it, you get the impression that all the violence is one way and it only heads towards innocent Palestinians.
Now allow me to open your eyes on what is actually happening:
Syrian/Israeli border
Large numbers of demonstrating Palestinian refugees forced their way through the Israeli-controlled border between Syria and the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights, witnesses said. One witnesses spoke of thousands. He said they were walking through a minefield, waving Palestinian and Syrian flags. He said Israeli soldiers were firing tear gas, DPA reported. An intense exchange of fire was also reported between the protesters and Israeli soldiers, near the Druze village of Majd al-Shams.
And
Reports said that dozens of Syrians were escaping into Israel, after the border was breached earlier Sunday afternoon. IDF troops fired at some of the Syrians, killing four. Troops were chasing after several Syrians who escaped into the hinterlands of the Golan.
And
Israel Defense Forces troops on Sunday opened fire on masses of infiltrators trying to breach Israel’s northern border with Syria, as Nakba Day demonstrations erupted across the region. At least four people were reportedly killed as scores of Palestinian refugees spilled into the town of Majdal Shams, which straddles Israel’s border with Syria. The Magen David Adom medical services said dozens had been wounded. The number of infiltrators was not yet clear, but some Majdal Shams residents said 400-500 Palestinian refugees had crossed the border; others said nearly 1,000 people had managed to infiltrate, while some reported seeing only dozens cross over
and here is a photo of said invasion taken from a security camera.
The bBC , its hatred of Israel and Nakba day
Gaza/Israeli Border
To the south, at the Erez border crossing between Israel and Gaza, Israeli troops opened fire with tanks and machine guns injuring at least 15 people, Palestinian medical officials said.
And here is what the bBC isn’t telling you:
In Gaza, dozens of marchers approached the border with Israel, and Israeli troops opened fire. The tank shells fell in an empty field several hundred yards from the group. Palestinian health official Adham Abu Salmiya said 15 people were wounded by bullets and shrapnel. All of them were under 18 years old, and one was in a critical condition, he said.
And
At least 30 Palestinians in the Gaza Strip were injured when Israeli tanks fired shells near demonstrators marching toward the border fence with Israel, Gaza medical official Adham Abu Selmaya told reporters. The army is investigating the incident, a military spokeswoman said, speaking anonymously according to regulation.
And
Israeli soldiers stationed near the Gaza Strip border fired Sunday toward the town of Beit Lahiya, north of Gaza City, injuring at least 25 people who were participating in protests marking Nakba (catastrophe) Day. Gaza emergency services chief Adham Abu Salmeya said the Israelis fired first a smoke shell, then three artillery shells. He said many children were among the injured, as large crowds gathered in the area to participate in marches marking the 63rd anniversary since hundreds of thousands of Palestinians became refugees in 1948.
Interesting how everybody else states that the tank shells were aimed away from the protest and not directly at them (something the bBC doesn’t point out) and how from Pal sources the first shell was a smoke shell. In otherwords warning shots. Also interesting how everybody was under 18 years of age. You’d think that somebody was trying to inflame the Arab word (and the bBC) over how children were shot at.
The bBC , its hatred of Israel and Nakba day
And here are other News stories the bBC isn’t informing you about:
Eygpt/Israeli border
In Egypt, the army set up at least 15 checkpoints — guarded by tanks and armored vehicles — on the road between the Egyptian town of Al-Arish and the Gaza border city of Rafah, searching cars and checking identification papers and turning back all who were not residents of the area.A security official said at least 10 activists had been detained. Al-Arish is about 40 kilometers (25 miles) from Rafah.
Lebanese/Israeli border
In Lebanon, meanwhile, thousands of Palestinian refugees gathered in the southern border village of Maroun el-Rass, traveling in buses adorned with posters that read: “We are returning.” Many traveled from the 12 crowded and squalid refugee camps in Lebanon where some 400,000 Palestinian refugees live. Hundreds of Lebanese soldiers, U.N. peacekeepers and riot police deployed heavily in the area, taking up positions along the electric border fence and patrolling the area in military vehicles. Young Hezbollah supporters wearing yellow hats and carrying walkie-talkies organized the entry to the village and handed out Palestinian flags.A small group of youths threw stones and tried to advance toward the border, but Lebanese soldiers stopped them and urged them to remain peaceful.
And
The northern border between Israel and Lebanon was declared a closed military zone Sunday, as Hizbullah prepared for a major anti-Israel demonstration calling for Israel’s destruction. Thousands of Lebanese supporters of Hizbullah terrorism are expected to mass across the border from the Israeli town of Avivim, and Hizbullah has threatened that they will try to cross the border.The IDF has beefed up forces in the area, and all reporters have been banned from the closed military zone area.
And
Two people were killed and at least five wounded in a ‘Nakba Day’ incident in southern Lebanon as Palestinian protesters tried to push their way across the border with Israeli, local media reports said, citing eyewitnesses. Carrying Palestinian flags and chanting ‘we want our land back’ thousands of Palestinians tried to approach the electrical fence that separates Lebanon from Israel, but Lebanese army troops fired in the air and ordered the crowd to return to where the rally was held. The demonstrators pelted the Lebanese army with stones as it struggled to hold them back from the security fence. But around 50 protesters managed to reach the fence and started throwing stones at the Israeli soldiers on the other side of the fence, prompting the Israeli soldiers to fire their guns and tear gas at the protesters.
Websites had urged Palestinians and their supporters in neighboring countries to march on the border with Israel as part of Naqba activities. Security officials tried to block such moves for fear of violence.
The bBC , its hatred of Israel and Nakba day
And here are other News stories the bBC isn’t informing you about from within Israel and the West Bank:
In a West Bank refugee camp and on the outskirts of Jerusalem, IDF troops fired tear gas to break up large crowds of stone throwers.
Demonstrators gathered at a gas station near the village of Isawaya in East Jerusalem early Sunday, hurling rocks at the security forces. At least one protester was arrested during those clashes.
Palestinians demonstrating near Mount Scopus in Jerusalem hurled firebombs at the back of the Hadassah Medical Center there. Nobody was wounded in the incident and there were no reports of damage.
In the West Bank city of Qalandiya, some 200 protesters began marching toward a local checkpoint. Police attempted to disperse those protesters by firing tear gas canisters.
Other protesters gathered near the Gush Etzion settlement bloc in the West Bank; Palestinian security forces arrested some rioters, but left other demonstrations to continue unhindered.
A resident of the Arab village of Kafr Qasem in northern Israel ploughed a truck into vehicles and pedestrians on a busy Tel Aviv road at the tail end of rush hour. One man was killed and at least 16 others were wounded.
Summary
It appears that the bBCs reporting from events transpiring in the Levant only paints Israel as the bad guy. I mean all these people want is to return home to what was there. Yet for some strange reason the bBC doesn’t report on how while under 1 million Arab families left, were kicked out, a much larger figure of Jews were kicked out of Arabic lands . Do they get a say in the matter? Well not according to the bBC, anybody reading the above gets the impression that only the jews can be evil.
Also for a so called billion dollar industry the bBC cannot appear to join the dots in which to work out that protests have hit every border with Israel. That protests have erupted inside the West bank in Hamas strong areas and that the vast majority of protesters were children. It’s as if somebody organised the whole event in an attempt to instigate a huge backlash against Israel if they tried to stop people from invading the country. Gosh the bBC must really employ some thick bastards if I can cull that information from the net within an hour and they with their huge news gathering orgs and their so called experts can’t.
So that begs the question why would somebody want to increase tensions against Israel. Could be to take the heat off of the Muslim brotherhood, off Hezb-allah/Hamas and of course Syria. I mean it is them who everybody in the world is looking at. Everybody bar the bBC it seems.
Excellent work Pounce. Thank you.
Needless to say, the BBC website has now put up a slide show that, in the light of all the information you’ve gathered, looks a lot like cheap propaganda:
In pictures: Palestinians mark anniversary
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-13404905
It begins with a peaceful-looking Palestinian crowd and ends with the image of a little boy holding a candle in the dark and ‘yearning for change’.
The captions tell the story of a mighty Israel opening fire on Palestinians armed only with catapults and stones:
Palestinians have been rallying to mark the 63rd anniversary of the day they call the Nakba or Catastrophe – the creation of the state of Israel in 1948.
Some held symbolic keys, marking the original house keys kept by many Palestinians, who hoped one day to return to their old homes.
At the Erez crossing in the Gaza Strip, Israeli troops opened fire, wounding dozens of people.
There was also violence near the West Bank city of Ramallah, where Palestinians threw stones at the Qalandiya checkpoint.
Other protesters used catapaults (sic) to launch stones at Israeli forces.
Israeli forces used tear gas or gunfire at a number of locations, including Ramallah, Erez, the Lebanese border and the Golan Heights, to try to quell the protests.
In occupied East Jerusalem, protests were also held – undercover Israeli policemen mingled with the demonstrators, arresting some.
Amid the violence and rallies, some families have quietly lit candles to express their yearning for change
How the bBC puts a spin on things when reporting from Israel/West Bank.
Israeli forces open fire at Palestinian protesters
Have a look at the video clip of the bBCs Jon Donnison reporting from Ramallah. He reports from behind the Israel riot police who are facing off Palestinian youths who are lobbing bricks. Get that so anything that comes his way will come from the direction of the Palestinians. (But they would have to have a strong arm in which to do so) So why is he wearing blue body armour in which to make his report, because if all he had to fear is bricks and stones surely a helmet would be more appropriate. Now have a much closer look when the camera zooms in, why there are TV camera men ,female photographers a good 100 metres closer to the action than Donnison and guess what none are wearing body armour.
Subtle imagining like this is how the bBC promotes its one-sided reporting, have a look at each and every photo the bBC airs of the current unrest. Do you get the impression Israel bad, Palestinian victim. The link that Craigs posts substantiates that bBC mindset in that Pals are aired as only victims and the jews well they are gun totting thugs.
Update in that list of pictures that craig links into the bBC promotes this view that Hamas was helpless in stoping this crowd of people. Yet to get to the border they have to pass through a Hamas check point. A check point others are reporting as turning a blind eye. I mean Hamas has no problem closing down protests when it wants to.
Futher to my last about how the bBCs Jon Donnison puts a spin on his reporting, he states during his report that people were injured when israeli troops fired a tank shell at palestinian protesters. Here is a picture from Yahoo showing one of 2 or even 3 tank shells hitting the ground (which others have reported as been fired away from protesters, but which the bBC trys to push as at protesters) For distance that guy in the foreground is sat on a donkey.
Now in that picture spread the bBC show a poor little boy mounting a silent protest and here is a lot of little boys mounting a different kind of protest
And you know that picture of a gun totting undercover jewish policeman who go around arresting demonstrators, well here another version from Yahoo where stone throwers are getting arrested.
Makes you wonder at the veracity of the bBC report.
Strange story from the bBC about the march to Scottish independence.
Alex Salmond: Scotland ‘would share military’ under independence
Scotland’s First Minister Alex Salmond has said the country would be willing to share military facilities with “friendly neighbours” under independence. Mr Salmond said “many countries in the world share military facilities with friendly neighbours and there’s absolutely no reason why Scotland wouldn’t be prepared to do that.”
Friendly neighbours??? Can anybody point me in the direction of any country which Scotland isn’t on friendly terms with? But here’s an interesting snippet. When it comes to the Military there are only Scottish Infantry and transport regiments. There are no Scottish Navy assets (other than dockyards) there are no Scottish Airforce elements (other than Airfields) So if Scotland becomes Independent they would have to purchase a Navy and an Air force. There lies the crux of sharing military assets simply because other than a few army regiments Scotland has…nothing. They would have start from scratch and add that to the tax bill. Something nobody (Not even the bBC ) from the Scottish parliment is pointing out to the voters.
pounce,
I suspect Mr. Toad is thinking of Norway !
Though Alex was already sharing healthcare with friendly nations like Libya already!
Does this look familiar?
Israeli troops clash with Palestinians at Nakba protests At about 1:25 the boy falls, apparently shot in the leg. Immediately the crowd gathers, picks him up, apparently by the injured leg and rush him away. There is no blood so it’s impossible to tell for certain.Start about 2:25 on this video
See some simularities? Apparently the BBC didn’t.
Moving alone in the BBC video. At about 2:00 are the evil Israelis shooting innocent Palistinians? All those bangs and flashes. Surely hundreds of dead? Then at about 2:20 the Israeli soldier moves away – firecrackers!
deegee,
I was going to comment on pounce’s posts that the Israeli military seem to be very poor shots !
Me and the missus picked up on that last night, the same footage was being run on Sky. The kid went down like a Barcelona player and it was clear from the sound that it was fire crackers not guns.
Just seen Jon Donnison’s report from the West Bank accompanied by a strap line saying “Syria denounces Israeli actions as criminal”
You really couldn’t make it up!
The bBC and how its reporting from Egypt never blames..Muslims
Egypt: Clashes in Cairo as Christian protest attacked
At least seven people have been injured in clashes at a Christian protest site in central Cairo, officials say. The demonstrators outside Egypt’s state TV building were attacked overnight, with shots fired, petrol bombs thrown and cars set alight. The Christians were protesting against attacks on two churches last weekend in which 12 people died. There has been an increase in sectarian clashes since former President Hosni Mubarak was overthrown in February. The group of protesters was attacked after they reportedly prevented a man in a car from driving through the area.
So reading the above account of events as relayed by the bBC. The reason why all those 7 people were injured is because they didn’t or wouldn’t allow a man driving a car to pass by.
And here is what everybody else is being told:
Eygpt:
Around 22 protesters were injured Saturday evening when unknown people shot at demonstrators staging a sit-in outside the official TV building near the Cairo Nile, a Coptic priest said on Sunday.
Russia:
Local media has reported that a Muslim, who had a quarrel with a group of Christian protesters outside the state television building, called his friends and they arrived and fired on them injuring a few. This provoked larger-scale clashes, as a result of which more people were wounded.
Reuters Video
Egyptian Christian protest attacked
Funny enough the bBC used the pretext of a driver being prevented from driving through an area the last time the nasty Egyptian Coptic’s decided to attack Islam bullets, fire bombs, stones, fists and feet.
Greenpeace New Zealand is stripped of its charitable status for engaging in political activities contrary to the laws governing charities.
This is news is it not?
The BBC being a key supporter of greenpiss has nothing to say, no comment, its not newsworthy apparently. Nothing to see here move along, what story?
The Sunday Telegraph has a weekly spot “my perfect sunday” today featuring Victoria Derbyshire. Some highlights :-
“The afternoon… playing rounders, in our big beautiful garden ”
“We live a 100 yards away from the River Thames ”
” Oh, the glamorous life I lead “.
Thank goodness I am not paying for it……… er !
I wouldn’t play any “games” with a BBC woman with her initials !
john,
Nice one !!!
If John Humphrys doesn’t like her she must have something going for her …
Another Beeboid homewrecker. What a shock.
QUOTE: “She might have apologised, but it’s too late now,” adds Humphrys. “This sort of thing is damaging because people start to think ‘there’s no smoke without fire.’ There has never been help given to contestants, nor will there be. I couldn’t believe she said this now when the BBC is suffering quite a few slings and arrows.”
This, from old elephant hide, Humphrys. =-O
Aw, diddums. What about the slings and arrows slung at us daily by the Beeboid Corporation? Any little slings and arrows slung back are as the ping of a peashooter at a battleship. Who’d have guessed it harboured such sensitivity within its iron walls – and from the man who rings like a bell with the sound of his own self regard? Don’t worry, old boy, the battleship will sail impregnably on, regardless.
Thank goodness I am not paying for it……… er !
happy to say i certainly ain’t!! 😛
Me neither.