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  1. chrisH says:
    June 2, 2012 at 5:33 pm

    So Mubarrak only gets a “life sentence”.
    I do hope that he`ll be sent to Libya for treatment for that cancer of his….him being one of the uluma an` all.
    That should ensure long life….bet Barry Gibb wishes that he`d thought of that one for his brother(RIP).
    I also notice the BBC staffers around Tahrir Square NOT remonstrating with those chippy Egyptians about the somewhat regressive “death penalty”….surely we`re all much more civilised that that chaps!
    Must be that famed “cultural sensitivity” for which the craven/discreet BBC are famed for.
    Wonder when the white working class of England will be so honoured and allowed to vent, by roving BBC spokesmen?
    Oh dear-those poor hostage takers in Afghanistan…Clive Stafford Smith , Gareth Pierce and Geoffrey Robinson will now have to head onto Kabul once they`ve addressed the intemperate mobs of Cairo!
    Worth a few airmiles I`d say!…and I will plant a tree if that gets them to go!

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  2. Deborah says:
    June 2, 2012 at 6:08 pm

    5pm Radio 4 news
    1st item Mubarak
    2nd item Afghanistan
    3rd item Jubilee
    Well I suppose here in the UK there are more interested in the Middle East than our queen?

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  3. Restoring Britain says:
    June 2, 2012 at 6:20 pm

    Things that make you go hmmm!

    http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-18271118

    This misty eyed assessment of Detroit only really offers this on it’s decline:

    After an $80 billion (£51.5 billion) US government car industry bailout, Detroit is attempting to resurrect itself.

    But the abandoned homes and ballrooms, ruined factories and an empty, cavernous train station serve as daily reminders of the city’s more affluent past

    Strange that in 2012 the depth of BBC analysis of what happened in Detroit is only this. Oh of course, that would be about as far as you wanted to go ont he Beeb had you understood this:

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    • David Preiser (USA) says:
      June 2, 2012 at 9:51 pm

      The BBC isn’t interested in why it happened. This is one of their magazine-style “bespoke video pieces”. It’s human interest, not news. Even if the BBC did deign to ponder the causes for this ruin, they still wouldn’t like to blame the unions or Democrats because to the Beeboids, all that stuff is great and it’s really the fault of the greedy bankers that Detroit ran out of other people’s money.

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      • Restoring Britain says:
        June 3, 2012 at 12:53 pm

        The thing for me though is their human interest pieces seem to keep following this narrative. Some months ago they ran a similar piece about the road that seemed to be the demarcation line between the rich and the poor.

        I think this putting this piece out there is about the steady drip drip of their narrative. For want of a better phrase, this Detroit story is “old news” and stories of artists and photographers capturing this decline has also been done before. For me this is a little reinforcement of their narrative.

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  4. As I See It says:
    June 2, 2012 at 8:17 pm

    I don’t want to upset Dez by banging on about that 0.1% of his but as Britain settles into Jubilee weekend celebrations this story has broken ….

    http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-18310908

    ‘Five hurt in stabbing in Thornton Heath, south London’

    No context from the BBC. Oddly the story is linked only to the Met Police and London Ambulance Service.

    I would tend to link it to this story….

    http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2009/sep/04/shakilus-townsend-honeytrap-murder-sentence

    (Always like to reference the Gruniad where pos)

    ‘Honeytrap’ girl and gang locked up for Shakilus Townsend murder…The teenager bled to death after the “relentless and merciless attack” by a masked and hooded gang in Thornton Heath, south London, in July last year. (2008)

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  5. As I See It says:
    June 2, 2012 at 8:34 pm

    Don’t expect the BBC to mention this angle on the Derby housefire any time soon….

    http://www.culturedviews.com/mick-and-mairead-philpott-arrested-over-derby-house-fire/2012/05/29/view.htm

    ‘….his motive has been clear for a while now, a bigger house. Burn down the old one, how original. Those poor kids. This welfare state mentality has killed those kids.’

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  6. jonuk says:
    June 2, 2012 at 11:45 pm

    still, there’s the impending ‘documentary’ about gay Olympic athletes to look forward to

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  7. Tom says:
    June 3, 2012 at 9:08 am

    bbc never fail to disappoint….
    Here is my version of the story…….An aid worker (who should have known better than to be over there in the first place) was rescued by our dedicated British special forces in a brave, daring, well planned and very professionally executed operation on Friday. The hostage takers were heavily armed, dangerouis terrorists hell bent on gaining their own political aims through violence and murder………

    Below is the 2nd paragraph of the bbc report………
    Aid worker Helen Johnston, 28, was freed along with three other hostages in the dramatic raid in Badakhshan province early on Friday……..

    Oh, I see, what happened then did the brave freedom fighters who had invited her as a guest to their hidden camp suddenly have a change of heart and decide to release her to the authorities????!!!

    Just yet one more of the continual available examples of the use of language by the bbc to water down or wind up a story depending on their political beliefs.

    Why can’t they just for once produce a non biased factual report? They are intent on destroying the Britain we know…..

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  8. zemplar says:
    June 3, 2012 at 6:50 pm

    I’m pretty sure this is Ken Livingstone’s house for sale. My, how being one of the Marxist elite who know the one true answer to everything pays off…

    http://www.foxtons.co.uk/search?bedrooms_from=0&keyword_type=area&keyword_value=mapesbury&location_ids=151&property_id=806355&resource=thumbnails&search_form=keyword&search_type=SS&sold=1&submit_type=search

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  9. George R says:
    June 4, 2012 at 12:25 am

    24 hours after the ‘Telegraph’, INBBC has a report on WARSI, relegating the Islamic connections.

    “Lady Warsi has questions to answer, says prime minister”

    http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-18315330

    For INBBC: Some of Warsi’s Islamic connections-

    ‘Telegraph’:

    “Baroness Warsi: Radical past of man at the minister’s side”

    http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/conservative/9308047/Baroness-Warsi-Radical-past-of-man-at-the-ministers-side.html

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