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  1. George R says:
    February 22, 2014 at 8:57 pm

    Meanwhile, on the MSM and the ‘left’ in America:-

    “MEDIA SILENCE EXPLAINED?:
    SOROS FINGERPRINTS ON FCC NEWSROOM PROBE”

    http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Journalism/2014/02/22/media-silence-explained-soros-fingerprints-on-fcc-newsroom-probe

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  2. AsISeeIt says:
    February 23, 2014 at 8:48 am

    BBC news currently trumpeting unqualified claims that Team GB has had their best Winter Olympics ever. Surely the games has expanded greatly in terms of number of events and therefore medals available.

    Funny how some news claims have to be run past the lawyers and the shop stewards whilst others such as scary weather supposed records and puff for BBC televised sports events go straight to air.

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  3. George R says:
    February 23, 2014 at 8:53 am

    Two reports of same case:-

    1.) ‘Daily Mail’:-

    “‘Unless Shrien is back in South Africa, we cannot rest’: Anguish of Anni’s parents as Dewani gets more time to fight extradition over wife’s honeymoon murder.
    “Shrien Dewani is to seek a last-ditch appeal at the Supreme Court despite the High Court and Theresa May saying he should be flown to South Africa.
    “Anni Dewani’s father, Vinod Hindocha, said: ‘I am so upset by this news.’
    “Mother Nilam said: ‘Unless Shrien is back in South Africa and in front of a judge there, we cannot rest.'”
    By SHEKHAR BHATIA

    Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2565719/Anguish-Annis-parents-Dewani-gets-time-fight-extradition-wifes-honeymoon-murder.html#ixzz2u8KaojfN

    2.) BBC-NUJ:-

    “Shrien Dewani takes extradition case to Supreme Court”

    http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-bristol-26291587

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  4. Thoughtful says:
    February 23, 2014 at 8:59 am

    http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b03vh0d3

    United We Fall

    Roger Scruton argues for a voice for the English in the debate over Scottish independence. “As an Englishman I naturally ask why my interests in the matter have never been taken into account.”

    Very much worth listening to as an attack on the BLiar / Brown government, and a hard look at the way we are ‘governed from London but ruled by Scotland’ whose inhabitants vote to be governed by the SNP, but vote for the English to be governed by a different party – Labour !

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    • johnnythefish says:
      February 23, 2014 at 7:12 pm

      Cameron promised to resolve the West Lothian question, but hasn’t. Maybe Clegg wouldn’t let him.

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  5. AsISeeIt says:
    February 23, 2014 at 9:02 am

    Who’s pleased to see that part of their BBC TV Licence Fee is going on reports into this topic?

    http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-26272218

    The perils of sharing a name with Saddam Hussein
    By Prashant Rao Aziziyah, Iraq

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    • Guest Who says:
      February 23, 2014 at 9:53 am

      ‘But this was another Saddam’
      —
      No, really? Nigh on a dozen gripping preceding paragraphs of derring-do on this quest….. and it turns out the geezer just has the same monicker.
      Front pages need to be held on this one, clearly.
      If this doesn’t get Prashant propelled to joining Tulip in the cubicle gardens, what will?

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  6. AsISeeIt says:
    February 23, 2014 at 9:15 am

    The BBC appear to be pleased about the lastest developments in Ukraine.

    One thing I note is that in contrast to most political upheavals around the world the BBC for once is not blaming British colonialism as the basic root of the local problems.

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  7. George R says:
    February 23, 2014 at 9:17 am

    Speaker Bercow admonishes political party leaders for rowdy behaviour at PMQs, so BBC-NUJ uses this as an opportunity for do propaganda feature online at ‘Politics’ page, to get Labour Party leadership to admonish the Tories; with no equivalent BBC-NUJ article of Tories admonishing Labour.

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    • Guest Who says:
      February 23, 2014 at 9:25 am

      Maybe time for the BBC to dust off the awful bullying of that shrinking violet Ed Balls, whilst screwing the watertight oversight door even more tightly on the Labour taunting on a Tory with a rather more serious disability than being a hypocrite.

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    • Geoff says:
      February 23, 2014 at 10:44 am

      How can you take any authority from his chap who has an attention seeking tattooed lefty slapper for a wife….

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    • George R says:
      February 23, 2014 at 1:34 pm

      Radio 4, ‘World at One’ consolidated its political bias on this today with a gratuitous, friendly chat with Labour leader, who sounded like this:

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  8. Jack says:
    February 23, 2014 at 9:21 am

    Apologies if this has been covered earlier but this Chris Moyles tax affair just looks like a straightforward criminal fraud. It appears he was only able to take advantage of a legal tax loophole by lying about fictitious business transactions. That is quite simply fraud and he should be subject to a criminal investigation. Those who ‘advised’ him on this appear to be also implicated in this fraudulent scheme.

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    • Guest Who says:
      February 23, 2014 at 9:27 am

      ‘Friends or family’ – apology accepted; moving on.
      ‘Ideological foes’ – hounds unleashed, often for weeks
      It’s how impartial newsrooms work, apparently.

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    • Ember2013 says:
      February 23, 2014 at 1:43 pm

      Even if it isn’t fraud it’s as morally reprehensible as any million pound banker bonus. Something the BBC likes to dicuss.

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      • Jack says:
        February 23, 2014 at 8:43 pm

        It is most definitley fraud, gaining pecuniary advantage by deception. The deception being the lies about fictitious business losses involving fictitious car sales. This enabled him to take advantage of a legal loophole he otherwise would not have been the beneficiary of. Its criminal alright.

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    • Teddy Bear says:
      February 23, 2014 at 5:43 pm

      When I think of the individual aspects of this story, that show just how corrupt is the mindset within the BBC, it really confirms my estimation of their true hypocritical insidious agenda as highlighted in nearly every story we cover about them.

      Moyles is just the microcosm of the macrocosm.
      Why any presenter should be paid £700,000 a year, especially out of public funding, is already pointing to something wrong.
      Instead of feeling a moral and ethical responsibility to repay some of those huge earnings back to the public, as demanded by taxes, especially when the corporation loves to present the problems faced by the poor who would therefore benefit by having more money in the coffers to assist them, their greed leads them to minimise any payback. Not to mention their demonisation of banker bonuses and big businesses who similarly avoid paying taxes. But let’s bear in mind that big businesses provide employment for many other people which improves the economy and lifestyle we are able to enjoy in society. From the likes of Moyles we get nothing.

      Then after being exposed for the cheats they are, they then further insult the intelligence of the public by pretending that they thought it was all legal and above board.
      You claim to have a business which you don’t in order to make it appear as if you are earning far less than you are. I believe most people would recognise this as fraud – pure and simple.

      The very same dynamics we see daily at the BBC in one form or other.

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  9. George R says:
    February 23, 2014 at 9:33 am

    Beeboids: duplicating British sports news for Africans:-

    This is Beeboids’ ‘Africa’ page (top right)-

    “African Sport
    “Toure goal gives City victory over Stoke.
    “Ivory Coast’s Yaya Toure scores a vital goal as Manchester City defeat Stoke to stay three points behind the Premier League leaders Chelsea. “BBC SPORT.

    http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world/africa/

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  10. noggin says:
    February 23, 2014 at 10:04 am

    BBC 1 The Big Questions – Panto Dame Campbell
    Is hate a crime? … will he ask Mughal from ask “tell mama”
    how the odious Tory, Warsi , because to any Islamic adherent “hate” is part of the make up … yep, that sad, negative moniker drives the muslim engine … don t believe me?
    Just Google, why muslims hate to find Christians, Jews, Homosexuals, Lesbians, the West, minorities, ethnicities etc etc – Note, and thats not if, but WHY they do, i.e. reams and reams of excuses to back up their penchant for world domination.
    Should religion meddle in politics? … coughshariacough

    All these questions and more, will be deftly avoided by “flagship” religious issues BBC 1 programme this morning.

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    • noggin says:
      February 23, 2014 at 12:32 pm

      Thank you and goodbye, next week we are Peterborough, so fittingly we ask, what role did religion play in those dozens of “child rape gang” cases that have been in the news of late?, in particular the one mosque frequented by numerous members of the same gang, actually in Peterborough.
      So tune in, to see me deftly avoid just these type of questions next week

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      • chrisH says:
        February 23, 2014 at 1:01 pm

        “Involved in a brutal rape and murder?”
        Surely that`ll not be so brutal once they rewrite the blurb
        “Convicted by an all white-jury”…but of course.
        “This is not rhetoric…this is his personal story”.
        QED then?
        Good old Beeb eh?….wonder how they felt as they effectively euthanised Lord MacApline?
        No-BBC News won`t be bothering their arses with THAT one…
        When did the BBC stop doing News and give us 24/7 Loose Women by way of analysis?…

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  11. George R says:
    February 23, 2014 at 12:16 pm

    Mass Immigration: the ‘Great Replacement’.

    Perhaps we should term the continuous mass immigration into U.K (as supported by BBC-NUJ), the ‘great replacement’ (of British people), on the lines of such French slogans –

    “Demanding a referendum for France”

    http://galliawatch.blogspot.co.uk/2014/02/demanding-referendum-for-france.html

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  12. Thoughtful says:
    February 23, 2014 at 12:18 pm

    Any readers here remember the 1970s BBC mini series ‘Roots’?

    At the time the story of black slavery caused all kinds of racial tension, and I can’t imagine that the BBC would ever repeat or remake it, despite the fact that it received an unprecedented 37 Emmy nominations winning 9 of them.

    The History Channel has bought the rights to remake the mini series, but some how I just can’t see the BBC broadcasting it in the UK !

    http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-24833138

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    • chrisH says:
      February 23, 2014 at 12:30 pm

      Wasn`t Alex Haley discovered to have “misspoke” in claiming that it was all true and based on his own familys experiences.
      That in no way (to me) diminishes it as a pioneering gripping series that turned out to be influential…both for good and for bad.
      My point is that the likes of Blair, Clinton, Gore and these liberal icons got the message that they too could lie about their “roots”…so we could emote in their chosen causes.
      And-when rumbled-the liberal elite quickly raked it all over as romantic mispeakings in the right cause…so facts become optional stepping stones for their “journeys”.
      Really dangerous-witness Harman,Dromey and Hewitt this week…if the past isn`t sacred or valued we get the fresh and exciting “new” versions where the end will justify whatever means(lies etc) are used by these deluded self-serving venal creeps.
      True Red Square versions of the GayDay Parade…and to think we used to laugh at Tass etc…we live it every day now.

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    • pah says:
      February 23, 2014 at 1:21 pm

      Roots was excellent TV and a very good read too.

      Pity the story was plagiarised and promoted the myths of slavery rather than the real story. Still that’s entertainment folks!

      NB The guy who plays Geordi in Star Trek played Kunte Kinte. This not very interesting fact is brought to you courtesy of IMDB in association with Pah’s World of Uninteresting Facts (c).

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  13. Pounce says:
    February 23, 2014 at 12:27 pm

    How the bBC rehabilitation of the Taliban continues.
    First we had legitimate rulers (90s)
    Then we had the US sees them as terrorists (2001)
    Then we had militants
    Now the bBC refers to the group which has just murdered over 20 people as…Fighters
    Afghan soldiers die as Taliban attack checkpoint in Kunar
    Taliban fighters have killed at least 20 Afghan soldiers in an attack on a checkpoint in Kunar province close to Afghanistan’s border with Pakistan.

    Good to see that the Taliban still have the good old bBC on speed dial:
    At least one of the attackers was also killed and the Taliban told the BBC they had captured seven soldiers.

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    • Pounce says:
      February 23, 2014 at 1:10 pm

      I see the bBC have rewritten their bio on the Taliban in which to rewrite them as victims of the ansty west:
      Who are the Taliban?
      “The hardline Islamic Taliban movement has proved to be a formidable fighting force in Afghanistan and a major threat to its government.”
      The message form the bBC here is:
      Yes, those good old Allah boys have no problem standing up to the nasty West and any puppet government they install.

      “The Taliban also threatens to destabilise Pakistan, where they control areas in the north-west and have been blamed for a wave of suicide bombings and other attacks.”
      The message form the bBC here is:
      While being blamed, there is little or no proof of their involvement so this is nothing more than a lie by the nasty Western Christian Crusaders

      “Many observers now believe that future peace in Afghanistan can only come if the government in Kabul negotiates with the Taliban.”
      The message form the bBC here is:
      We demand that the Taliban be given their rightful place as the true leaders of Afghanistan

      “They were accused of various human rights and cultural abuses. One notorious example was in 2001, when the Taliban went ahead with the destruction of the famous Bamiyan Buddha statues in central Afghanistan, despite international outrage. ”
      The message form the bBC here is:
      Yeah lets talk about a statue not the millions of women denied medical care, not the women told to cover up and stay at home, not the women made to bend down in football stadiums and shot, not the entire towns which when captured were wiped off the map. The hundreds of thousands who became refugees. Yeah lets like liberals talk about the things that matter…a fucking statue.

      ” In recent years the Taliban have also increasingly relied on roadside bombs as a means of fighting Nato and Afghan forces. The exact number of people killed by these devices is difficult to calculate but the interior ministry says they were responsible for killing most of 1,800 Afghan national police personnel who died in 2012.”
      The message form the bBC here is:
      Don’t mention the thousands of civilians the Taliban have killed, instead focus on the invader crusader infidels and their puppet regime.

      The bBC, the traitors within our midst.

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  14. dave1east says:
    February 23, 2014 at 12:37 pm

    `hang ’em high` – former abolitionist campaigns for capital punishment – well, maybe not.

    http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-26273051

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    • chrisH says:
      February 23, 2014 at 1:00 pm

      “Involved in a brutal rape and murder?”
      Surely that`ll not be so brutal once they rewrite the blurb
      “Convicted by an all white-jury”…but of course.
      “This is not rhetoric…this is his personal story”.
      QED then?
      Good old Beeb eh?….wonder how they felt as they effectively euthanised Lord MacApline?
      No-BBC News won`t be bothering their arses with THAT one…
      When did the BBC stop doing News and give us 24/7 Loose Women by way of analysis?…

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  15. Thoughtful says:
    February 23, 2014 at 1:18 pm

    http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b03vzhpk

    TWATO with a party political broadcast on behalf of the Liebour party.

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    • johnnythefish says:
      February 23, 2014 at 7:03 pm

      So Falkirk only mentioned in passing as a catalyst for discussing ‘reform’ of the Labour party.

      This was like one of those stage-managed interviews you get before a party conference audience. In other words, a cosy little chat designed to boost the image of the party leader.

      As for any involvement of Miliband’s office in the union-organised vote rigging in Falkirk it shall forever remain a mystery because, well, we’ve ‘learned our lessons and moved on from that’ haven’t we, BBC?

      As with their failure to run in any way with the NCCL revelations in the Mail this week, an in-depth and rigorous investigation of Falkirk is totally off-limits for them, and we all know why.

      They make Pravda look balanced.

      And they stink.

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      • #88 says:
        February 23, 2014 at 9:30 pm

        Meanwhile over on the Marr show, Caroline Flint was invited along for a chat to explain how many £3 members ‘the Party’ would recruit and how that would make it far more democratic (and much, much more democratic than the Tories who Flint tells us are relying on ‘rich donors to fund them*’)

        *At this point Marr could have asked Flint about ongoing TU funding of Labour…..but strangely…..he didn’t.

        You’re quite right JtF…this sounds like a well coordinated and choreographed piece of political manipulation – I wonder if the BBC, in return for their assistance, get a block vote in the leadership elections?

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  16. Sir Arthur Strebe-Grebling says:
    February 23, 2014 at 5:47 pm

    Even the b-BBC’s summary of the Sochi Winter Olympics manages to include their two obsessions:
    Ireen Wust became the face of Dutch speed skating dominance as she won two gold and three silver medals in Sochi. Wust, openly bisexual, …
    and
    The Jamaicans were the talk of the Games, after they came last in the two-man bobsled.

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    • chrisH says:
      February 23, 2014 at 6:27 pm

      But no mention of a lack of money for ski suits from the Tories?…and no mention of a disastrous lack of snow due to the coming global warming?
      Surprised they didn`t shoehorn THEM into any summary of the pointless Olympics…Cuts/Climate Change?…surely everything gets back to these !

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  17. Guest Who says:
    February 23, 2014 at 6:23 pm

    http://tradingaswdr.blogspot.co.uk/2014/02/churning.html
    ‘surprised that the BBC still feels the need to spend on general, positioning, recruitment ad’
    Is a bit odd. Not like the ‘brand’ really needs a boost (wonder if anyone has run that headline past the ASA?). I guess there may contractual obligations to maintain rates?
    Or maybe the Guardian just really needs any money it can get, and inviting its staff on daily to represent a public clearly buying other papers, isn’t really keeping the wolf from the door just on appearance fees and expenses?

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    • Guest Who says:
      February 23, 2014 at 6:28 pm

      Might be worth an FoI?
      Be interesting if finding out the spend on such ads got knocked back for those broad ‘purposes of…’ reasons, as it would be very interesting to compare rack rate with volume discounts.
      Or discover a nifty way to send funds where they may not be really serving the licence fee payer at all, in a way that is anything but transparent. On current performance, the DG and Trust will probably claim they were astoundingly uncurious or forgot to ask.,

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      • RJ says:
        February 23, 2014 at 9:24 pm

        To be fair, there must be a lot of people who choose not to buy the paper Guardian because they get its news and comment from its broadcasting arm, the BBC. This reduces income for the paper version, so the BBC does what it can to boost Guardian advertising revenues. Otherwise the BBC would be destroying the Guardian, as potential readers just watched the broadcasts.

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  18. AsISeeIt says:
    February 23, 2014 at 6:27 pm

    As fascinating as it may be, on further considering this incisive piece of BBC international journalism…

    http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-26272218

    The perils of sharing a name with Saddam Hussein
    By Prashant Rao Aziziyah, Iraq

    …..it occurs to me that the Licence payer might have been saved a few bob if our intrepid Prashant had simply copped a quick shufti at the phone book for Hackney Wick – Husseins a plenty.

    http://www.192.com/people/search/?sk=44218425-4b89-4241-8dcc-cc1262d90d95&location=Hackney&looking_for=Hussein

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  19. Dazed & Confused says:
    February 23, 2014 at 8:06 pm

    Obviously you’d never see this on the BBC, but if anyone is interested in seeing death and carnage on the streets of Kiev, then here we go…

    http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=be8_1393051400

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  20. Jeff Waters says:
    February 23, 2014 at 8:41 pm

    ‘It can be said the Scots are still reeling from the effect of Margaret Thatcher’s radical economic policies and her introduction of the poll tax.’ – http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-26173128

    Erm, yes, right.

    So Scottish people today are still reeling from a tax that was briefly introduced a quarter of a century ago?

    I’ll have some of whatever he’s been smoking!

    As for the ‘radical economic policies’, arguably they were the tough medicine that parts of the UK needed.

    Jeff

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  21. Jeff Waters says:
    February 23, 2014 at 9:28 pm

    Electric chair haunts US former executions chief – http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-26273051

    The BBC might as well have entitled this article ‘why the death penalty is wrong’…

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  22. George R says:
    February 23, 2014 at 10:14 pm

    ‘Guardian’ too keen to get the political message of their chum, Beeboid leftist boss, Tony HALL?:-

    “Taken down: BBC boss Tony Hall denounces ‘anxiety to privatise'”

    “This article has been taken down because it broke an embargo. It will be relaunched at 10.30pm GMT.”

    http://www.theguardian.com/info/2014/feb/23/taken-down

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    • George R says:
      February 23, 2014 at 10:24 pm

      Director General HALL: his predictable, self-serving political message about OUR BBC:-

      ‘Don’t privatise us.
      ‘Let us keep on spending your money to publicly finance Beeboids on their political projects of:
      pro-Labour Party, pro-Obama, pro-greenie, pro-E.U, pro- mass immigration, pro-Islam, pro-World Service broadcasting for global, non-British audiences.’ NO. NO. NO.

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      • George R says:
        February 23, 2014 at 10:56 pm

        Beeboid D.G HALL, and his self-serving plea for OUR money to pay for his ever expanding global political propaganda, inc World Service.

        Hot off the mark, as politically filtered by ‘Guardian’ political chums-

        “BBC boss Tony Hall denounces ‘anxiety to privatise.’
        “Director general says sharing licence fee with other public service broadcasters would hurt corporation.”
        By Tara Conlan and Jason Deans.

        http://www.theguardian.com/media/2014/feb/23/bbc-tony-hall-sharing-licence-fee-1

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    • Guest Who says:
      February 23, 2014 at 11:31 pm

      “And when it was up it was up, and when it was down.
      And when it was only….”
      ‘Denounce’ is such a wonderfully old-fashioned word; one from another age. Cardinal Richleau would like such a word. Of course, he actually could deploy it with some backing. Tone, sadly, is at the rump end of BBC mandarins having any credibility left for anyone to give a flying hoot that they’re miffed at what has messed with their racket.
      And looking at the comments thus far, boy, has he also managed to not even get the Graun crowd to join him on the barricades (mixing my Musketeers and Les Miz a bit, sorry) with this one.
      I wonder how long the inner circle can ignore the people who they depend on to pay for their fun and games? Paris also hosted a period where the glitterati really didn’t do too well on looking down on the masses.

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  23. thoughtful says:
    February 23, 2014 at 10:15 pm

    Rebels, gunmen, etc etc, but every name possible to avoid the words Muslim, Islam, or Qur’an in a report on a massacre of what turned out to be Christians in South Sudan.
    I wonder sometimes if reporters are trying to tell us to read between the line of reports written to comply with instructions from above.

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  24. Ember2013 says:
    February 23, 2014 at 10:39 pm

    Top headline on the BBC news site:
    “Ukraine to seek European integration.”

    What the article says:

    Parliament in Ukraine has named its speaker as interim president.
    Oleksandr Turchynov takes charge following the dismissal of President Viktor Yanukovych on Saturday. Mr Turchynov told MPs they had until Tuesday to form a new unity government.
    Later, in a TV address, Mr Turchynov suggested Ukraine would re-open talks with the EU about closer links.

    Closer ties
    Britain has ties with Australia but it doesn’t mean we want to integrate with our Antipodean cousins.

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  25. George R says:
    February 23, 2014 at 10:46 pm

    BBC-NUJ,
    -part of TUC,
    -part of European Trade Union Confederation,
    which all campaign for UKRAINE to be a new member of an expanding, federalising European Union.

    What Beeboid political agenda?

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    • Dave s says:
      February 24, 2014 at 12:10 am

      Looks very much like a BBC agenda. Won’t work and we interfere at our peril.
      Russia has every right to be concerned at what happens on it’s borders. The right of any nation state. The EU and the US should be very wary.
      Empathy, non discrimination and emoting. The liberal’s preferred way of dealing with the awkward questions of the world.

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  26. Fairfacts Media says:
    February 23, 2014 at 10:53 pm

    Just saw the BBc1 10pm news.
    It mentioned Venezuala.
    The opening line was “thousands” coming out in support of the leftist Manduro.

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  27. George R says:
    February 23, 2014 at 11:20 pm

    Pro-Islam INBBC seems to have politically censored this too:-

    ‘Daily Mail’ has:-

    “Inner-city academy investigated after being accused of ‘side-lining’ its non-Muslim staff and trying to put Islamic studies on curriculum.
    “Park View Academy in Alum Rock, Birmingham, will be investigated by DfE.
    “Follows employee claims non-Muslim staff are being sidelined.
    “Also alleges school is attempting to put Islamic studies on curriculum.
    “Will no doubt create comparisons to Al-Madinah school in Derby.
    “First Muslim free school closed over concerns of teaching quality and claims women were forced to wear head scarves.”
    By LIZZIE EDMONDS

    Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2565920/Inner-city-academy-investigated-accused-lining-non-Muslim-staff-trying-Islamic-studies-curriculum.html#ixzz2uBrDrfpr

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    • Dave s says:
      February 24, 2014 at 12:14 am

      Of course the liberals censor this. They don’t know what to do about white flight and this only makes it more certain. .Do they join it or what? The poor liberal’s conundrum.
      Or rather the well heeled liberal’s conundrum

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      • DICK R says:
        February 24, 2014 at 12:45 am

        Of course they join it, then condemn others who do likewise as racists.

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        • stewart says:
          February 24, 2014 at 9:36 am

          Or, like BBC favourite Billy Brag lecture those they left behind on the virtues of diversity from their million pound mansion in the whitest county in England.

          http://www.thebritishresistance.co.uk/the-editor/554-billy-bragg-really-is-an-hypocrite

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          • Cosmo says:
            February 24, 2014 at 10:39 am

            Stuart, you don’t actually frequent that site do you ?

               1 likes

            • stewart says:
              February 24, 2014 at 11:10 am

              Casmu, your not actually a witch are you?

                 1 likes

              • Cosmo says:
                February 24, 2014 at 11:39 am

                That site is run by vermin.

                   1 likes

                • stewart says:
                  February 24, 2014 at 1:36 pm

                  Interestingly when Ive used hard left sites for references , like Millibands fathers biog. ,you didnt seem to mind

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              • pah says:
                February 24, 2014 at 11:42 am

                We have a test for that. Anyone got a duck?

                BTW ‘British Resistance?’ Won’t get past my filters. What sort of a site is it or shouldn’t I ask?

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                • Cosmo says:
                  February 24, 2014 at 11:45 am

                  Pure Nazi.

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                  • pah says:
                    February 24, 2014 at 11:51 am

                    Really? Never took stewart to be a Nazi? Are you sure? Still you must have read it too to form that opinion. Are you a Nazi too then? For shame.

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                    • Cosmo says:
                      February 24, 2014 at 11:59 am

                      I followed his ref’. No I’m not a Nazi, but I am very disappointed that a contributor to this site reads a Nazi site on a regular basis, so maybe you should ask the said Stuart, sorry it’s Stewart with “W” very apt.

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            • pah says:
              February 24, 2014 at 12:26 pm

              // – – – – – – to avoid comment tower

              I have read Nazi websites, although I do shower afterwards. Likewise with communist ones.

              It’s the only way to find out what these people believe because, funnily enough, they are both misrepresented by the BBC. And I wouldn’t want to spend money on their tripe neither.

              Based on the stopped clock principle even the BNP are right occationally. So are the despicable UAF. Doesn’t make them honest decent and true. Just right, funnily enough.

              Linking to or reading such stuff does not a Nazi make. The very idea that people should not read such stuff is also, funnily enough, a bit Nazi isn’t it? Perhaps you’d like to see the website burnt, with other similar sites, one evening, on a big bonfire, as people dance about it? In uniform maybe? No? The very idea eh?

              Or maybe you could just accept the diversity of thought this site allows?

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              • Cosmo says:
                February 24, 2014 at 12:44 pm

                Still cannot decide on a uniform. Maybe it is time to leave this site. Along with our friend Stewart ( if I remember rightly dyslexics would be deemed sub humans ) a joke about Hitler’s gas bill on another post is starting to show some worrying signs.

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                • pah says:
                  February 24, 2014 at 12:50 pm

                  vade in pace

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                • stewart says:
                  February 24, 2014 at 1:51 pm

                  I think you should wonder more why it is left to the far right to expose the hypocrisy of a bloated celebrity.
                  And as for me being a Nazi, perhaps you could supply a list of books that are forbidden while your at it.
                  Dyslexics or not I am happy to be judged by anything I have written here or else where, are you?

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  28. George R says:
    February 23, 2014 at 11:31 pm

    Even more Beeboid censorship of ‘Daily Mail’s Front-page headline and article for Monday?:-

    “How Much Longer Can Paedophilia Apologists Stay Silent?”

    (See ‘Sky News’ for newspaper preview:-

    http://news.sky.com/)

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    • DICK R says:
      February 24, 2014 at 12:50 am

      It looks like the Mail are going hard on this one ,the BBC will find it harder to ignore this story each day .
      The bigger mystery is why Cameron is giving Labour such an easy ride .

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      • Frank Words says:
        February 24, 2014 at 9:30 am

        Less of a mystery is why Tom “Noncefinder General” Watson is so quiet. He couldn’t wait to light the blue touch paper when he suspected there would be some merde to dump over the Conservatives.

        Personally I think that all political parties are scared of what might come to light if a couple of stones are turned over.

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        • Dave s says:
          February 24, 2014 at 10:24 am

          I heard this said yesterday. My informant said we are not getting much of the story. I suspect it is very nasty indeed.

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        • pah says:
          February 24, 2014 at 11:45 am

          Watson was only posing as the ‘Nonce Finder General.’ In reality he headed up the Labour smear unit and was sacked after the spectacular own goal of the McAlpine fiasco. He was only interested in Tory nonces after all. Allegedly.

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    • Richard Pinder says:
      February 24, 2014 at 2:42 am

      There was a joke on “Room 101” about a Tory MP pervert, which got a laugh.

      But I could not tell if it was because of the old fashioned assumptions about Tory MP’s being paedophiles or homosexuals.

      I thought it was rather hypocritical considering the headlines in the Daily Mail, about the deputy leader of the Labour Party, as well as the prevalent Gay and Paedophilic culture at the BBC.

      I guess that due to the dilemma of hypocrisy, Jeremy Hardy won’t be making a joke about paedophilia, even if its now safe to make an innuendo about Lord Mcalpine, now that he is dead.

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    • George R says:
      February 24, 2014 at 7:55 am

      Beeboid censorship of ‘Daily Mail’ story today:-

      “BBC News THE PAPERS”

      http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/blogs-the-papers-26318402

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  29. Thoughtful says:
    February 24, 2014 at 8:20 am

    “Buckingham Palace: Queen’s London residence worst for pollution”.

    Now like me I’m sure that anyone reading that would conclude that Buck house was incredibly inefficient and very polluting, however that is not what this incredibly and I believe deliberately misleading headline is about at all.

    It goes on to say:

    “Air pollution near Buckingham Palace is the worst in the UK and almost four times the EU legal limit, figures show.”

    So the air quality in the vicinity of Buck house is quite poor, which has nothing to do with the Queens London residence and everything to the BBC having the opportunity to take another left wing swipe.

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  30. Thoughtful says:
    February 24, 2014 at 8:34 am

    09:00 Radio 4
    “Adair Turner on the Politics of Finance”

    An innocuous subject which most people might think the BBC will get their usual left wing ideas into, and they probably will, but that’s to be expected! What is a surprise is the way that they manage to shoehorn an advertisement for Sharia Islamic banking into the program suggesting it might benefit the UK to move to that !

    “If there has been a moral vacuum at the heart of the banking industry, are there lessons to be learnt from Islamic banking? The financial advisor Harris Irfan believes it’s a system that is more equitable and transparent.”

    http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b03w0110

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  31. Beeboidal says:
    February 24, 2014 at 9:27 am

    Nicky Campbell’s Your Call : Who’s oil is it anyway?

    In the introduction, Nicky Campbell comes out with the well worn lefty mantra ‘ oil was very valuable to the Thatcher government’. The oil ran out in 1990 did it, Nicky?

    Much talk of Norway’s oil-based sovereign wealth fund. There will be no talk of how Harold Wilson handed over to Norway more than their legal share of North Sea fields.

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  32. AsISeeIt says:
    February 24, 2014 at 10:46 am

    JoAnne Rust

    Who she? I hear you ask.

    ‘JoAnne Rust @JoRust45’
    ‘Trade Union Activist, Secretary of KL&D Trades Council, & NWN CLP’

    And obviously a big fan of campaignie Alphabeti Spagetti….

    And, as they say, ‘a friend of the show’…

    JoAnne Rust ‏@JoRust45 17 hrs
    @NickyAACampbell we agree on so many things; Miley Cyrus is indeed irrelevant! That aside, academics or not, pornography never empowers womn

    JoAnne Rust ‏@JoRust45 17 hrs
    @NickyAACampbell a strand of feminism say pornography empowers women, but yes, you were right. I look forward 2 watching you in Peterbro 2nd

    Nicky, word of advice – if you really want to engage with these Lefty campaigners and to be their BBC besty – check your privilege.

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  33. AsISeeIt says:
    February 24, 2014 at 11:03 am

    Nicky Campbell is a useful weather vane of BBC management opinion. Remember he told us that as far as they were concerned Jimmy Savlie was just a ‘sexless eccentric’

    So this is worth noting as the closest we will get to an official update…

    Steevie ‏@halfbob Feb 21
    @bbc5live @NickyAACampbell So now Roy Greenslades Guardian Blog thinks Harman/Dromey/Hewitt have questions to answer will the Beeb cover?

    Nicky Campbell ‏@NickyAACampbell Feb 21
    @halfbob as soon as the lawyer says. They are v cautious for obv reasons. There is no conspiracy.

    Those ‘obvious reasons’ presumably being the BBC McAlpine scandal. However, I can’t see the parallel.

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