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  1. George R says:
    January 12, 2014 at 11:19 pm

    Is this some Orwellian action by French socialist government?

    “French First Lady ‘in hospital’ after alleged Hollande affair”

    http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-25706037

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  3. OldBloke says:
    January 13, 2014 at 8:09 am

    BBC Radio Devon, this morning, banging on about cliff erosion and Climate Change. There is a segment on their *inside out* programme tonight concerning such and even before I don’t watch it, I just know what the outcome of it will be. Yesterday BBC radio Devon managed to find a pressure group who wanted to put an end to cliff erosion and the spokesman for this pressure group was telling us to switch off anything that was left on stand by or those lights that were left on. This he said was causing climate change which eroded cliffs. I kid you not.

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    • Guest Who says:
      January 13, 2014 at 8:21 am

      “pressure group who wanted to put an end to cliff erosion”
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      Of course. Not the Canute Crumbling Sub-Committee by chance?

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    • Guest Who says:
      January 13, 2014 at 8:30 am

      This logic follows the post earlier about Bjorn Lomborg, who rightly prioritises what can be done with time and money and what is a total waste.
      Pouring trillions into millions whose sole function is to fly about the world telling people to switch off lights (if unnecessary, at current energy prices, most will see merit on their own bat) thinking this will have an impact on cliff erosion… is a leap of faith at best. Maybe the programme could be renamed ‘Arse Backwards’ if it continues this meme?

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  4. Dave666 says:
    January 13, 2014 at 8:28 am

    It’s Monday morning, it’s BBc Breakfast. It’s the ‘obesity crisis’ again. Healthy food blah blah. The ‘obesity expert’ is banging on about supermarkets putting doughnuts in the entrance and decrying supersize portion food. Obviously doesn’t shop anywhere I do I’ve just noticed sizes getting smaller. Any bets as to when we get our next lecture on fat/ sugar/ alcohol.

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  5. Dave666 says:
    January 13, 2014 at 8:35 am

    Oh not publicising 12 years a slave again now.

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  6. Geoff says:
    January 13, 2014 at 8:44 am

    Another anti-men story on Breakfast News presented by the sports announcer that looks like a bloke.

    Sports news leads with her smugly announcing to the 5 viewers interested, that “our womens cricketers achieve whatour men cant ….Bugger what else more notable happened in yestersdays sport…

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  7. Guest Who says:
    January 13, 2014 at 8:58 am

    Top news on twitter, at least, from one to four sources…
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    @BBCr4today: Ebony-Jewel Rainford-Brent tells @RobBonnet she can see women playing alongside men in cricket, but it’s “still five years off” #r4today
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    Maybe get Al Gore to endorse it?

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  8. George R says:
    January 13, 2014 at 9:03 am

    Ideal Beeboid propaganda ‘fiction’.

    New series assured.

    “Sherlock’s new press baron foe and more evidence of Left-wing bias.
    “Holmes’ enemy unveiled in series finale – a sinister newspaper baron.
    “Co-creator Steven Moffat previously spoken of his dislike of Conservatives.
    “Has scathingly attacked right-wing media and the Murdochs previously.
    By TOM KELLY.

    Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2538350/Sherlocks-new-press-baron-foe-evidence-Left-wing-bias.html#ixzz2qGcdrdIo

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    • Guest Who says:
      January 13, 2014 at 9:13 am

      No wonder the twittosphere is raving about it.
      Pity; after the Horlix of that last wedding mush I was looking forward to getting back on track without messages being seeded left, left and pink of centre.
      Seems Eliot Carver is alive (well, no longer, if like Kenny) and well and truly a fixture in all BBC script meetings.
      At least these media monopoly nut jobs seem to have spine, and are not portrayed as an astoundingly uncurious, forgetful sack of rats, like those who use public money to commission propaganda to undermine their commercial rivals.

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  9. Geoff says:
    January 13, 2014 at 9:09 am

    Not only an out and out champagne socialist beeboid but a cycling one at that (is there a worse type?)

    More crap from Vine…

    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2538377/Why-drivers-want-kill-Death-threats-Near-misses-A-run-Clarkson-Radio-2-host-scared-cyclist-JEREMY-VINE-terrors-faces-road.html

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    • David Preiser (USA) says:
      January 13, 2014 at 1:43 pm

      The driver, an unshaven Mediterranean-looking man in a pale suit, leant over and bared his teeth, hissing in broken English: ‘I. WANT. TO. KILL. YOU.’

      Now that did take me aback.

      Bloody foreigners, eh, Jeremy? If anyone who didn’t hold all the approved thoughts had singled out somebody’s ethnic appearance like this, they’d be called a racist.

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  10. George R says:
    January 13, 2014 at 9:11 am

    Beeboids’ immediate political opposition to developments they don’t want.

    Within seconds of Beeboid news item on French company TOTAL joining U.K exploration for shale gas, Beeboids put in a plug for their political ‘greenie’ chums, who take undemocratic action against such exploration.

    So, in future, whenever there is a reference to e.g. the E.U developing into a superstate ‘United States of Europe’, will Beeboids immediately refer to UKIP’s opposition to that? Only kidding.

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  11. Old Goat says:
    January 13, 2014 at 9:40 am

    Oh dear – looks like fracking’s going to take off after all – I could tell that Evan Davis was disappointed.

    Has anyone noticed the emphasis has shifted now – not so much “what can we do to stop it”, more “how much are we, landowners, and councils going to rake in from it”. Same old story – money talks.

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