58 Responses to NEARLY BACK

  1. Alex says:

    Fingers crossed DV… I never thought one could miss a website so much… does that make me sad? 🙂 Look forward to having you all back soon.

    warband.wordpress.com

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  2. Span Ows says:

    Yes, hope all is sorted soon, I realise it is technical here but I know the feeling of losing your blog (mine was hacked last year for a few days – along with about 30 others)

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    • johnnythefish says:

      Any evidence that this might have been a hacking?

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      • Leftie-Loather says:

        I smell a rat. I only joked a week or two back that narked undemocratic dark forces that don’t like the truth getting out were at work. Now i’m VERY suspicious.
        But certainly never had all this trouble with the old site though, I got straight on there everytime, nothing like now.

        Best of luck with ironing everything out, David. If it’s driving us round the bend it must be driving you absolutely nuts with frustration.

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      • Span Ows says:

        No, DV on his Tangled Web blog made clear that in this case it was a technical issue.

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  3. Ben D Bus says:

    Just get your administrator / techy to turn off the PHP error reporting then all will be well.

    If they don’t know how to do this then what the hell are they doing administering the site?

    I could do this on about 2 seconds.

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  4. AsISeeIt says:

    Please get it fixed soon. The BBC bastards are getting away with it on a daily basis.

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    • Ben D Bus says:

      I clicked the like button under your post only to be met with a slew of:-

      “Notice: Undefined property:”

      etc. etc. etc.

      Get a grip admin!

      Looks like you’ve recently tried to update your WordPress installation and royally screwed it.

      Never heard about testing?

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    • Pounce_uk says:

      Aslseeit wrote:
      Please get it fixed soon. The BBC bastards are getting away with it on a daily basis.

      They certainly are have a look at the bBC articlke about the young mother of 3 who was stabbed to death by her lover in a taxis.
      http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-birmingham-19190851
      Junior Saleem Oakes, of Dimsdale Road, Northfield, appeared at Birmingham Magistrates’ Court.

      what kind of person would do that, here is what the bBC aren’t telling you:
      A 28-year-old man – named by sources as Junior Saleem Oakes, also known as as Mohammed Saleem (Salim) Junior Oakes – has been in police custody over the knife attack for 24 hours after he was arrested in a garden last night.

      Now doesn’t that tell a different story. It seems that the man who committed the crime is called ‘Mohammed’ and not Junior. I wonder why the bBC didn’t mention that /
      The bBC, the traitors in our midst

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      • Alex says:

        If facts portray Muslims in a bad light, as often they do, then the BBC will sanitize the story with the old Marxist damage limitation crap, in other words, ‘value judgements’. It’s that simple. BBC and Islamic bias are interchangeable.
        Funny, though, isn’t it? When the shoe is on the other foot and a case potentially (NOTE, ‘Potentially’ because the BBC have got this horridly wrong before with, you’ll all recall, the Toulouse shootings… remember the hysterical presuppositions, advances and theories regarding the ‘Right-wing extremist and their shock when the culprit turned out be Muslim etc.), involves a white extremist Christian then the British Groupspeak Implantation Specialists (aka BBC) chuck the ol’ ‘value judgements’ into the next door neighbour’s garden being quite happy to use these diarrhea discernments aplenty and willy-nilly.

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  5. Ben D Bus says:

    Ah! Site is hosted by http://www.arvixe.com/ or one of their resellers.

    They are clueless.

    That pretty much explains everything.

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  6. Deborah says:

    Add me to the list of people who feel alone and isolated when seeing BBC bias at every turn and appreciate the hard work of all of you trying to get the site back in working order. Now dare I hit the ‘post comment’ button…..

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  7. Reed says:

    We need you back!

    There’s so much to be pissed off with!…

    http://www.thecommentator.com/article/1509/young_right_and_part_of_the_fight

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    • Ben D Bus says:

      I completely agree. Biased-BBC.com is a sort of public service and needs to be available to give people some outlet for their righteous rage at the lefty, liberal, middle-class, metros who have dominated the BBC for the last 20+ years.

      All websites need money to run though, and perhaps corners have been cut on the hosting to save money.

      Maybe we should click on that old ‘donate’ button a bit more.

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    • johnnythefish says:

      The BBC lends its support to the Brown/Milliband tactic of portraying Tory activists as ‘posh’.

      Quelle surprise.

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  8. PhilO'TheWisp says:

    Must have been a biggy. Bloody computers!!

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  9. London Calling says:

    In the interests of assuring balance, a proportion of the BBC license fee should be mandated to critics of the BBC. It is no different from funding the adversarial prosecution and the defence legal system to ensure a fair trial. I wonder if Patrician Chairman Patten could get his head around that? The BBC way is to appoint a few luvvies ensuring proportionate ethnic, regional and sex and BBC production representation, and calls it “The Trust”, as is customary in the public service, the opposite of what the word means.

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    • johnnythefish says:

      Great idea. ‘Biased BBC – the official BBC watchdog’ (think Rotweiler).

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  10. Alfie Pacino says:

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  11. Invicta 1066 says:

    Tuned in to watch Olympics athletics tonight. So far I have had lectures on slavery, American discrimination against their black population and now Eugenics and Hitler and Nazism !
    I find this absolutely disgraceful. It’s meant to be a ruddy sports programme! Trust the BBC to turn it into a propaganda slot for their own agenda.

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    • gordon-bennett says:

      I agree. Lots of discussion about the black monopoly of fast sprinters.

      While that was going on I was thinking about the white monopoly of the Mars expedition control room and how quickly you would be cut off if you tried to discuss that on the beeb.

      I know which I think is the greater accomplishment.

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      • Span Ows says:

        …should have kept listening: Michael Johnson (black sprinter God) told them categorically that they were WRONG.

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        • Reed says:

          I missed that! Shame I switched channels, as it had become so overbearing. Mr. Johnson is one of the best commentators at these games – he knows exactly what to say and keeps it minimal, unlike so many others that just can’t seem to keep their mouths shut for a moment.

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        • Scooper says:

          It took a black man to point out that it’s nurture as much as nature. That section of the broadcast made me so angry. I’m just watching the rowing and it’s a white dominated sport but the BBC decide to try and explain that as being elitist. Swimming on the other hand could never be described as such but I’m still looking forward to the analysis of why white people dominate the sport.
          The technical coverage of the games by the BBC has been superb. It’s just so infuriating that they have to constantly drip feed their twisted view of the world into what should be a World celebration of sport and international respect.
          Tossers!

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          • Reed says:

            I agree – technically there’s everthing to commend in their coverage, but they can’t seem to resist slotting in their bloody agendas here and there. It seems at first very sly, as if they are hoping that nobody will really notice what they are doing, but I don’t think they even see this stuff as agenda driven. To them, it’s all perfectly natural to shove an overbearing race essay on racism/oppression/slavery/Nazism/eugenics in our faces, timed for broadcast moments before the most high profile event of the games that everyone will be tuning in to see.

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          • IanH says:

            Never wanting to pee on the BBC, but the games TV is run by OBS an Italian based organisation that has held that right for about 10 years now. They use the local broadcaster where they have specialism, in our case Tennis because the BBC have Wimbledon wired, and the rowing where they seem to have agreed to put up the overhead camera at our great expense for very little usage

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          • Ian Hills says:

            Mind you, if there IS a genetic component to black sports capabilities, then it could be down to African chiefs selling only the strongest blacks to be sold into slavery. You don’t get many cowrie shells for supplying skinny midgets.

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      • It's all too much says:

        The mars control room staff compositionj struck me very forcefully as well!

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  12. John Anderson says:

    A few days ago the BBC was singing the praises of Gore Vidal.

    The guy was actually a nasty prat. But a BBC-kind-of-prat.

    http://www.weeklystandard.com/articles/gore-vidal-s-fan-club_649306.html?nopager=1

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  13. Craig says:

    A judge recently threw out the case against Poundland brought by a couple of unemployed people (Cait Reilly and Jamieson Wilson) who claimed the government-backed unpaid work experience scheme was akin to slavery and a breach of their human rights.

    Comparing the accounts in the ‘Telegraph’ and ‘Guardian’ with that by the BBC is revealing of just how left-wing the BBC can be:

    Judge rejects ‘slave labour’ claim over Poundland work experience scheme
    http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/9456036/Judge-rejects-slave-labour-claim-over-Poundland-work-experience-scheme.html

    Unpaid work schemes ruled lawful as high court rejects Poundland case
    http://www.guardian.co.uk/law/2012/aug/06/unpaid-work-scheme-ruled-lawful-poundland?newsfeed=true

    Back-to-work scheme ruled lawful by High Court
    http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-19146347

    The account in the ‘Telegraph’ is tilted against Miss Reilly and Mr Wilson. The account in the ‘Guardian’ is only slightly tilted towards them. The BBC’s account is strongly tilted towards them.

    A breakdown of the paragraph structure of the three articles might show the bias:

    ‘Telegraph’:
    P1: Judge criticises Miss Reilly
    P2: Judge criticises Miss Reilly
    P3: Case dismissed by judge
    P4: Iain Duncan Smith welcomes the judgment and criticises Miss Reilly
    P5: Campaign of boycotts of Well-known High Street firms – “exploitation”
    P6: Outcry caused some pull-outs from scheme
    P7: Miss Reilly’s argument against the scheme
    P8: Miss Reilly’s argument against the scheme
    P9: What Miss Reilly’s lawyers said
    P10: The judge agrees with them that standard letter was not clear enough
    P11: The judge agrees that Mr Wilson had been given inadequate notice
    P12: Judge dismisses the slavery claim
    P13: Judge rubbishes the slavery claim
    P14: Judge rubbishes the slavery claim
    P15: Judge rubbishes the slavery claim
    P16: Iain Duncan Smith delighted
    P17: Iain Duncan Smith quoted criticising Miss Reilly
    P18: Iain Duncan Smith quoted criticising Miss Reilly
    P19: Iain Duncan Smith quoted criticising Miss Reilly
    P20: Lawyers for Miss Reilly & Mr Wilson calling for compensation for people stripped of their benefits
    P21: DWP saying it will appeal that part of judgment

    Here the focus is mainly on the failure of Miss Reilly and Mr Wilson’s case, the judge’s rejection of their ‘slavery’ argument and IDS’s reaction.

    ‘Guardian’:
    P1: Government scheme ruled lawful
    P2: Judge rejects Cait Reilly’s claim about slavery
    P3: Judge criticising Miss Reilly
    P4: The claims of Miss Reilly & Mr Wilson
    P5: The judge says they were breeches of regulations in their cases
    P6: The judge says mistakes had been made
    P7: But the judge dismisses their slavery claim
    P8: The ruling will be a relief to the goverment
    P9: The judge criticises DWP
    P10: The DWP’s response
    P11: The judge’s comments on the problems in the cases
    P12: The judge’s comments on the problems in the cases
    P13: Judge rejects slave labour allegations
    P14: Judge rubbishes slave labour allegations
    P15: DWP’s delight & criticism of Miss Reilly
    P16: DWP’s criticism of Miss Reilly
    P17: DWP’s criticism of Miss Reilly
    P18: DWP’s criticism of Miss Reilly
    P19: DWP spokesman on appeal over warning letters
    P20: The lawyers for Miss Reilly & Mr Wilson call for compensation
    P21: The lawyers for Miss Reilly & Mr Wilson call for compensation
    P22: The lawyers for Miss Reilly & Mr Wilson call for compensation
    P23: The lawyers for Miss Reilly & Mr Wilson attack government

    Quite a decent balance here between the reactions of the various parties and the parts of the case which the judge agreed with and those he disagreed with.

    BBC:
    P1: Miss Reilly has lost her case. She argued the scheme forces people to work without pay.
    P2: Miss Reilly says her human rights were breeched by Poundland
    P3: The scheme was ruled lawful but mistakes were made by DWP
    P4: The government will contest that finding
    P5: Mr Wilson’s story and what his lawyers claim
    P6: What their lawyers were seeking from the case
    P7: The judge (briefly) criticises slavery claims
    P8: DWP’s criticism of Miss Reilly
    P9: DWP’s criticism of Miss Reilly
    P10: DWP’s criticism of Miss Reilly
    P11: Judge rejects case
    P12: Miss Reilly had been misinformed
    P13: Mr Wilson had not been given proper notice
    P14: The lawyers for Miss Reilly & Mr Wilson call for compensation
    P15: The lawyers for Miss Reilly & Mr Wilson call for compensation
    P16: The government doesn’t expect to have to pay compensation
    P17: The judge says DWP failed to make it clear in that letter
    P18: The DWP “maintained” they had been clear and concise.

    Here a peculiar focus is placed on the arguments being made by Miss Reilly and Mr Wilson rather than on their rejection by the judge, with a much stronger emphasis being placed on the parts of the judge’s ruling that back their arguments and the failings of the DWP. The judge’s rejection of the ‘slavery’ claim is skirted over. (In terms of direct quotes from the judge, the ‘Telegraph’ uses 111 words, the ‘Guardian’ 130 and the BBC just 6).

    The bias is reinforced by the captions under the photos used in each articles:

    ‘Telegraph’: “Miss Reilly had been claiming job seekers

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    • Roland Deschain says:

      The email was sent by the BBC’s Helen Boaden

      I’m sure that on consideration she’ll feel she got it about right.

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      • Guest Who says:

        ‘An order from the DG’
        Which she vas only obeying.
        Now, harking back to when Hugs lobbed out another ‘please don’t’ email to staff on twitter misuse, how did that end up again?
        Forking out £400kpa for a stenographer that the staff ignores seems about par for our £4Bpa genetically foot in mouth media monopoly.
        What has George had to say?

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      • London Calling says:

        At £320,000 a year (2009/10 accounts) you might ask how much per word an email from Helen Boaden costs us? We might argue as to whether she gets it about right but no doubt the price is quite wrong.

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      • Ian Hills says:

        Boaden thinks “It all depends what you mean by unbiased”.

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    • wallygreeninker says:

      According to R4 Today’s review half the newspapers headlined Usain Bolt this morning (Friday) while the other half had British Olympic gold winners topping their front pages. Guess with which Olympic story the BBC opened their radio news this morning.

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    • Ben D Bus says:

      They truly are traitors in our midst, aren’t they?

      It really galls the BBC/Guardian when the British (end especially the English) succeed at anything.

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    • Alex says:

      I wonder if Mark Thompson will be rethinking his coverage of the Syrian conflict as well, to better reflect the entirety of what’s been rally going on in the country? Somehow, I don’t think so!

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    • David Preiser (USA) says:

      But…but..but…I thought the BBC was too large and too disorganized for something like this to happen and there was NEVER an editorial memo handed down from on-high. What am I supposed to think now, defenders of the indefensible? This is a unique, once-in-a-lifetime deal, nothing to see here, move along?

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      • Ian Hills says:

        A bit like the disorganised, I-never-knew-what-my-right-hand-was-doing, too-big-to-fail banks.

        These big organisations should be broken up. They’re always expecting the licensee fee/taxpayer to bail them out, yet the salaries/bonuses keep rising.

        They’re run by inbred public school parasites who would never survive in a free market.

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  14. Guest Who says:

    Dearie me… but all’s well that ends-up sorted… soon.. touch wood. So a cautious, toe-dipping welcome back to the ether!

    Will be good to get the forum back. I had not realised how much I relied on the comments of others to put the dross punted out by the MSM in general (and of course BBC in particular) in better context.

    ps: Found it rather interesting that during the ‘downtime’ the only notifications I got were bot posting on older threads. Seems automated spammers figured a way to post when no human could!

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  15. Umbongo says:

    I’m at one with Alex at the top of this thread: never thought I’d miss a site this much. Thanks to all the volunteers who keep it going – and flourishing

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  16. Reed says:

    Welcome back everyone! Hopefully all is well now. Thanks to all behind the scenes for their efforts to get things back to normal.

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  17. Reed says:

    Following the BBC’s exposé of the dominance of black athletes in some events at the Olympics, I think a degree of affirmative action is required – to promote diversity, social justice and to prevent the kind of race-based exclusion that is so damaging to society…

    http://exposingleftists.com/archives/324

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    • Reed says:

      Behold the cognitive dissonance, leftists!

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      • London Calling says:

        Brain hears the question but eyeballs say “does not compute”. Ethnic compensation is packback for white guilt.

        If I say that as a result of slavery – unpleasant though that was – subsequent emancipation meant 30 million afro-Americans today enjoy a hundred fold better standard of living than their kin who remained un-slaved in Africa, it generates the same eyeball paralysis.

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  18. Mike Fowle says:

    Welcome back. Having just bought a new computer I thought it was me.

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  19. David Preiser (USA) says:

    Major thanks to the All Seeing Eye for getting this fixed.

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  20. Dave says:

    Welcome back- was worried that you had caught a bug but great that things are nearly back to normal. It is easy for us internet browsers,we just click and read – most of us haven’t a clue how it all happens. Keep up the sterling (ie non-euro) work!!

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