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  1. George R says:
    February 19, 2013 at 6:10 pm

    ‘Daily Mail’, Part 3, on impending Romania-Bulgaria mass immigration into Britain:

    “An accident waiting to happen and a political class in paralysis”
    By JAMES SLACK.

    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-2280795/An-accident-waiting-happen-political-class-paralysis.html

    Beeboid ears’ burning?

    Beeboids: in political paralysis in the face of further mass immigration into Britain.

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  2. Guest Who says:
    February 19, 2013 at 6:20 pm

    Another Jones, after Meirion.
    http://tradingaswdr.blogspot.co.uk/2013/02/legalled.html?
    in position for the deal to hold off action from Lord McAlpine against Newsnight in November.
    Nice wedge for basically saying, ‘Here’s a bunch of licence fee payer’s money; please don’t sue us for more’.
    ‘there’s an FOI question pending on the topic.’
    The irony abounds. I wonder if Tony Newbury is aware?
    ‘There’s also be interest in the full costs of the Pollard inquiry, now promised for “spring”.
    Another of those nice, vague, BBC promises on time, and redacted data, no doubt.

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    • David Preiser (USA) says:
      February 19, 2013 at 6:32 pm

      A lower salary for their top lawyer, and a 25% reduction in staff over the last five years? Those awful, awful budget cutz strike again. Is there no end to the damage done?

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  3. Royboy says:
    February 19, 2013 at 6:43 pm

    Disgraceful slant on cuddly bunny Muslim murderers from Jonathan Head
    http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-21501846

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    • David Preiser (USA) says:
      February 19, 2013 at 7:25 pm

      “Astonishingly three of them lived next door to each other”? This is a shock? “Believe it or not”, these Mohammedans target school children? This is a shock?

      I understand the BBC’s need to remain “impartial” (i.e. not appear to give succor to people who think there’s a problem), but come on. There’s no need to pretend this stuff doesn’t happen with Mohammedan “insurgencies” or their other “militant” struggles.

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      • wallygreeninker says:
        February 19, 2013 at 7:50 pm

        His lugubrious tone -as if mourning for the poor dead jihadi – was quite bizarre.

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        • David Preiser (USA) says:
          February 19, 2013 at 8:07 pm

          Just the usual solemn expression required for human interest stories about less than happy subjects. Which tells you the editorial perspective from which this story was approached in the first place. As Lyce Doucet advised, the BBC is merely acknowledging their humanity, right? Mustn’t constantly focus on the negatives, otherwise the mouth-breathers might get the wrong idea. After all, it’s only a tiny minority.

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  4. Sir Arthur Strebe-Grebling says:
    February 19, 2013 at 7:12 pm

    They just can’t help themselves …
    Radio 5 Dead, 6.40 p.m. today, the Drive(l) show, had what was supposed to be a good news story about the Brecon Beacons National Park being given a ‘dark skies’ award, only the third in the world, as a great place to see the night sky.
    The Drive(l) reporter managed to identify the Moon and Jupiter, then asked the astronomer from Cardiff University what made the place so special, so the astronomer explained that it was a long way from any towns, villages, roads etc so there was little interference from artificial lights.
    Then the Drive(l) reporter then said “I suppose the spending cuts mean that the local authorities have cut back on lighting anyway …”
    CLICK! I didn’t wait to hear the reply.

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    • dez says:
      February 20, 2013 at 3:55 am

      Sir Arthur Strebe-Grebling,
       
      “CLICK! I didn’t wait to hear the reply”.
       
      Of course, because ignorance is a badge of honour on B-BBC:
       
      Council turns off TWO THIRDS of its street lamps to save £200,000 a year on power bills
       
      http://goo.gl/bbtSF
       

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      • Sir Arthur Strebe-Grebling says:
        February 20, 2013 at 3:24 pm

        And the relevance to the Brecon Beacons dark skies award is … nil!
        But of course the relevance to the bBBC campaign against the ‘Tory-led government’ is … 100%!

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  5. Teddy Bear says:
    February 19, 2013 at 8:28 pm

    ‘We won’t give up until hellhole TV show is axed’

    Not the first time there have been complaints and accusations of a BBC documentary purposefully running down a particular area. They did the same last year on another part of Britain.

    One might ask the BBC what is the purpose of these documentaries, and that rather than seeking and airing positive examples found in society they do their best to make it even worse than it is.

    They do it to the same people who are forced to pay their wages. Shows the lack of BBC integrity, besides their dishonest agenda.

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  6. George R says:
    February 19, 2013 at 10:47 pm

    Will BBC-NUJ’s politically sympathetic presentation of the People’s Republic of China now change in view of this?:-

    “China military unit ‘behind prolific hacking'”

    http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-china-21502088

    AND:

    CNN report (video clip):

    http://edition.cnn.com/video/#/video/international/2013/02/19/exp-cia-cyber-attack-amanpour.cnn?iref=allsearch

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  7. George R says:
    February 19, 2013 at 11:04 pm

    “Top BBC executive accused of bullying in Rose review”

    By IAN BURRELL.

    http://www.independent.co.uk/news/media/tv-radio/top-bbc-executive-accused-of-bullying-in-rose-review-8501814.html

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    • AsISeeIt says:
      February 20, 2013 at 9:45 am

      It is already perfectly obvious that the ultimate outcome of the BBC’s various inquiries into itself will be that if only the BBC were more Politically Correct in all it does then all would have been and will be in the future just hunky-dory.

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  8. billy whizz says:
    February 20, 2013 at 7:23 am

    ‘Today’ had a nice blowhard piece on Ed Milliband’s visit to Scandinavia, and how wonderful it is to have high taxes and a massive welfare state. We were also told Scandinavians are the happiest people in the world, despite Finland being a global leader in suicide, and Sweden being number 2 in the world rape league behind south Africa. How wonderful. We too must raise our taxes to insane levels so we can avail ourselves of such wonderful developments.

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  9. George R says:
    February 20, 2013 at 10:10 am

    Beeboid EASTON can’t honestly answer his question:

    “Why have the white British left London?”

    He misses the impact of mass immigration into London/Londonistan, musing:-

    “Some white British may have moved because their neighbourhood has been culturally transformed, the tea rooms and restaurants replaced by takeaway chicken shops and halal supermarkets serving the new arrivals.”

    http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-21511904

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  11. Guest Who says:
    February 20, 2013 at 11:06 am

    At risk of this getting lost in the post 200 handover graveyard slot…
    http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/tobyyoung/100203533/michael-gove-writes-open-letter-to-the-information-commissioner-about-free-schools/
    ‘And a delightful BBC disc jockey said on twitter that he could “happily punch to death” everyone who appeared on the BBC2 documentary about my efforts to set up a free school, even though the documentary prominently featured my four children throughout. ‘
    Does this BBC DJ also harbour ambitions to being a Labour MP? He seems well qualified.

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  12. Bigt says:
    February 20, 2013 at 12:00 pm

    http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-21511904

    BBC papering over the cracks of White flight…

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