OK folks, I may be tempting providence but looks like we are back in business. As ever, my first thanks go to ASE for his HOURS of work fixing this. None of you will fully understand the late hours (all unpaid) that has gone in to resurrecting the site. I believe there were corrupted data bases and the like involved – hence the total down time! Anyhoo – we are back and so wanting to say hello to you all. How has the BBC been treating you? I see they reckon George Orwell was “too left wing” for a statue. He was nothing of the sort, he was too honest for the lousy BBC and his “Ministry of Truth” template was well embedded in his experience working for the BBC even back then.
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Welcome back.
Due doffing of cap to the commitment to what is, after all, a free, voluntary site.
Should any be in any doubt as to how tough all this can be, it’s worth a scope of the last year’s worth of ‘The Editors’ where various directors of BBC online this and that plonk out how what they are doing is going to be easier, faster, cheaper and better (using a lot of our money)… and when it turns out it is nothing of the sort mod out any dissent before closing out the thread.
Because they can. A unique power they abuse too often.
Speaking of which:
‘they reckon George Orwell was “too left wing” for a statue. He was nothing of the sort, he was too honest for the lousy BBC and his “Ministry of Truth” template was well embedded in his experience working for the BBC even back then.
This was rather hilarious, not just in the clunky crassness of the attempted set-up by the outgoing DG of the actual Ministry of Truth to add a ‘see how balanced we are?’ attempt to the Trust checklist, but the near universal panning of how he couldn’t even get his latest interpretation of events right…er..left…
A few more thoughts on the outgoing multi-millionaire DG’s latest ‘too left feet’ attempt..
http://www.thecommentator.com/article/1550/bbc_can_t_even_get_its_bias_right_over_george_orwell
Have to love the best the Comms pet cherry vultures are able to come up with so far.
George Orwell to left wing eh? Not according to this photo…
Either your pic didn’t upload or the Inner Party is still running the server…..
Glad to see you back and well done to all.
Normal BBC Trot-slaughtering will be resumed as soon as possible.
Welcome back – I’m glad you know the problem – I feared it was something more sinister
I was thinking the same. I was wondering if it was a constant cyber attack from those that don’t believe anyone of a different opinion should be allowed to speak. I thought it showed, though, how much this site must be getting to them as shown by the amount of Beeboid trolls that now lurk on this site.
Anyway well done to all for bringing this back up as we all need our B-BBC fix.
I’m with Selohesra. I feared dirty tricks. Welcome back.
Welcome back. I see the BBC failed to report on the racist black women who was recorded on the London tube train hurling vile abuse at all and sundry… The DM and some other blogs reported the incident, but not the BBC as far as I can see; maybe I missed it tucked away on some obscure regional link? But, one thing is for sure… I certainly couldn’t of missed their front page spreads when those two white, racist ladies were filmed doing the same on the tube. Inverted racism is seemingly acceptable to the lefties and BBC, Dianne Abbot’s highly bigoted and provocative remarks being an excellent example of this highly infuriating socialist hypocrisy, oh and Julian Assange… oh and Stephanie Fla… etc., etc.
Twofold repugnance: First, that vile racist lady has BEEN BAILED with the only proviso being that she doesn’t travel on buses again…. Whilst the white woman, Emma West, was jailed!
Second, the bloody BBC (surprise, surprise) hid the link of the racist ethnic woman deep down on the London regional links page… I think it’s second from bottom! Also, comparing the two BBC reports one is struck by the BBC’s differing tone in each. Note, for the ethnic minority lady they try and sanitize the whole revolting affair with words such as ‘distressed’ etc., whereas in the Emma West case, the headline sets the tone in NO UNCERTAIN TERMS! Yet another hideous example of the BBC’s support of inverted racism and multiculturalist bias. Also, Emma West’s name was splashed all over the BBC’s headline – name and shame? – while, I couldn’t find ’nuffink’ about the other lady’s name! Note also, that the BBC provided four links leading up to Emma West’s being charged, while they have only reported once on the other case, after the lady was arrested and now released on BAIL!!!! What’s this country coming to?
Emma West Link: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-16394046
Ethnic Minority lady: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-19340264
“Woman arrested after video surfaces of black woman making racist comments about white people on a London bus”
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2191075/Racist-rant-London-bus-Police-investigate-outburst-passenger-posted-YouTube.html#ixzz24P5lSAom
Yup, Emma was actually remanded in custody over Christmas and the new year – “for her own protection” – and her kids put into temporary care. Bastards.
” What’s this country coming to?”
It’s going to the dogs mate, that’s what!
Thanks for all your hard work and dedication to this site. Call me an optimist, but I reckon it is beginning to make a difference as I have detected small shifts in BBC emphasis recently which echo the concerns expressed here about its lack of balance. I don’t think anybody who subscribes to the ethos of Biased BBC grudges the Corporation allowing left-wing views to be expressed as long as a) they are not the personal opinion of their presenters and b) right-wing views are also allowed in equal measure – the essence of free speech, in other words, which some ‘contributors’ to this site seem unable to grasp.
Keep up the good work.
I think that I have noticed more care taken not to be too politically obvious as well but…. the message is now being made in more subtle ways. It is the emphasis on words, the inclusion of political bias in soaps and the highlighting of subjects that suit the anti-capitalistic, anti-balance the budget (austerity) as well as the anti-Republican BBC agenda, that gently brain-washes us all.
As I have said before, he is not my cup of tea, but when I see Tommy Robinson and his patriotic mates treated with as much respect on the BBC as an anti-British street preacher or a community leader that will not condemn terrorist acts on our soil; I will believe we have got somewhere.
Nice to have you back !
I did try to post yesterday, but was ignored!
Having just resumed occasional listening to the Toady programme following the Olympics takeover, I have noticed that the BBC has seemed much more cheekily biased since this site has been experiencing problems. I hope it was merely coincidence…
Anyway, I hope you’re back in business properly – you’ve been sorely missed.
Welcome back, much missed etc.
“Distressed” woman on bus, clearly pissed as a rat.
Much praise to the architects of the new Beeb centre in Salford for installing extra wide jumbo sized doorways. Heard yesterday one of the drones interviewing some lefty apparatchik busybody about the young man in Manchester who has recently had his bottom culturally enriched in a public lavatory.
Drone – “Why did plod take so long to release details of the case?”
Apparatchik – “Waffle, babble, gibber”.
All this nearly drowned out by squealing, trumpeting elephants in the studio.
I confess I was on the opposite carriage and slowed down to rubber-neck the car-crash that is Owen Jones last saturday night, then quickly sped up again..
‘THE TORIES SOLD 28,000 PLAYING FIELDS AND LABOUR DIDN’T TAKE BACK A SINGLE ONE !!!!!’
GCSE Shoutienomics First Module.
‘Labour didn’t take back a single one’.
Q.1. When a developer buys a school playing field does he
a) leave it as is because he likes to pop along every weekend and look at white lines on grass to remind him of his jolly happy schooldays or ?
b) build houses on it?
Q.2. When you come back from your summer holiday and find a netball court where your house used to be because Labour have ‘taken back’ a school playing field are you
a) living in a parallel universe or
b) thick as pigshite?
Candidates have three hours to complete the paper. Good luck.
I’ve met Owen Jones he is a nice person and doesn’t take him seriously like the vast majority of lefty’s. But your right he is thick and not very bright. Also wears clothes from second hand shops.
To say he is “thick” and “not very bright” is saying the same thing twice, besides he is obviously articulate, he is just ignorant and bigoted.
Doesn’t “bigoted” imply “ignorant”?
No, to be bigoted you can have all the facts or not, ignorance is not having all the facts.
When you’re bigoted you forget – become ignorant of – the inconvenient ones.
Flush Gordon once met a bigoted woman, didn’t he?
Addendum: Candidates will be allowed to copy and paste all answers from wikipedia but should be aware that marks MAY be deducted for shanking yo bredren during the exam.
Word up.
As long as it`s not BBC types trying to attack this site, then I`m fine with it all.
Great to have you back-the issues will be the same until further notice with the Beeb and its endemic bias.
Exam results today-upward drift or Weimar like grade inflation…guess which phrase Evan Davis uses?
Turkey shooting..easy as…
Thanks to ASE for all the hard work. Hopefully everyone will find their way back quickly.
Hear, hear. The site did appear to be down at lunchtime, though. Fingers crossed all is sorted for good this time.
Hurrah! Though I hesitate to quote Take That, I hope you’re ‘back for good’. As others have said, I hope everyone returns, particularly as I was starting to see quite a few new names adding to the comments. I hope they stick around and become new contributors.
…and a big thanks to ASE for his dedication – I’ve missed not being able to drop in and hear from the regulars!
…actually – I’ve missed BEING able to drop in and hear from the regulars!
Double negative – bollox!
Yes, welcome back…again. I thought it was my connections (being in various South American countries for a couple of weeks)
Thanks ASE! Funny how this site seems to survive and even prosper without having to impose a poll tax on everyone who doesn’t use it.