On time and ready for completion. No sooner had the BBC been propagating the “lone wolf and disturbed individual” meme over the Sydney Jihadist than a group of Pakistani jihadists slaughter over 130 schoolchildren. Hard to put that one down to the preferred “lone wolf” theory, eh? Fill the space.
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I heard a most odd and depressing show on R4 tonight. Immigration was the theme and the experiences of immigrants. The usual anodyne effort but this time truly sad.
It must have been in London as the word English was only mentioned in passing and then in describing provincial places.
Britishness was a constant refrain. And what on earth is that when it is at home? I know what Englishness is and I know what England is but Britishness?
All involved had that way of looking at my land which is beyond insulting. As just a land mass waiting to be filled. No concept of a nation or a people. An old and successful people who , I suspect all involved wished would just fade away. The usual rubbish about how we have always been an immigrant nation.
Oh and the economic benefits of filling this land with more and more could not have been more starkly put.
The liberal left will not afford to me and my people the dignity of being a people something they so easily bestow on every other national and ethnic group from Roma to Palestinians. . Have they no concept of how insulting and tedious this is .
This is how the BBC now sees us English .As rather pathetic and old and ripe for replacement.
There was one constant theme which I detected and that was that the country is fracturing into ghettoes and the English are retreating into themselves. Full marks to them. We will retreat into ourselves because we did not ask for this . This destruction of our quiet and peaceful land.
The liberal elite is beyond condemnation .
Well, if you’re lucky the Tories might allow English MPs a veto on English legislation. Labour intend keeping the right for Scottish MPs to vote on English legislation. The LibDems want to just talk about what to do for a few years. Take your pick …
‘…just a land mass waiting to be filled. No concept of a nation or a people’ Precisely – or, in fact, this is the BBC outlook when – and only when – England is concerned. And this is not some figment of a fevered anti-BBC imagination. This is the ideology lurking behind everything that comes out of our national broadcaster. In an unguarded off-the-cuff moment Tony Livesey a BBC 5 Live broadcaster let slip a remark that revealed the BBC office culture and house-style : “I don’t see why we have do anything in particular to express our Englishness – we’re just English by default”
Hearing that was a moment of realisation for me – somewhat in terms of the Marlon Brandon line in Apocalypse Now :
“a diamond bullet right through my forehead. And I thought, my God… the genius of that! The genius! The will to do that! Perfect, genuine, complete, crystalline, pure. And then I realized they were stronger than we…. [….] trained cadres. These men who fought with their hearts, who had families, who had children, who were filled with love… but they had the strength… the strength… to do that. If I had ten divisions of those men, our troubles here would be over very quickly”
@dave s
Aye, the masses are slowly awakening to the BBC’s unswerving commitment to an ever more ‘diverse’ UK. What they haven’t realised yet is that the state broadcaster actually disdains England.
The English basically exist to pay the licence fee, and vacate their cities for more worthy residents.
Palestinian draft peace plan put before UN Security Council http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-30527476
In what way is the attempt to force a Palestinian State on Israel a peace plan? The State of Palestine that arises will predictably lead to war — perhaps several.
No single quotes around the word ‘peace’ — no mention that taking this to the UN is in breach of the PLO’s obligations in the Oslo Accords — no mention that Hamas will not accept this plan even if the UN and the PLO do — no Israeli response. Another day in BBC anti-Israel bias.
Also note the photograph the BBC chose to illustrate: unarmed Palestinian confronting armed Israeli soldier. In this photo at least it is clear who the BBC considers to be the under-dog and therefore worthy of support.
Rachel Burden regales the nation with her wisdom once more this morning at circa 8.25.
Discussing the U.S./Cuba diplomatic thaw with an American guest she decided the hero of the Cuban missile crisis was, in fact, Nikita Kruschev, and that the reason Cuba is an undeveloped prison island is because of US sanctions.
Five Live needs to be closed, particularly ahead of the General Election, when it will undoubtedly come down on the side of Miliband’s mob, as it does on a daily basis.
Not just Five Live. I would also like to nominate for closure: BBC1, BBC2, BBC3, BBC4, Radios 1, 2, 3, the racist Asian Network and BBC Radio 1 Xtra, several dozen unnecessary local radio stations et al…
There is need for the racist Asian network, anyway 5Live does its job
“they want your views on the Pak school massacre”
… but erm… only … if you re Pak
I wonder why eh!
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b04v4w7r
File under : I don’t know, but I’m just asking…
Paul Sinha : Comedian or BBC box-ticker?
Here’s the shortest BBC job application letter ever written:
Tweets by paulsinha
Paul Sinha
@paulsinha
I admire women and the BBC, but very comfortable about batting for the other team.
Hey, luvvs…. Book that Indian chappie for another Radio 4 series!
Oh those nasty white people !
I wonder why certain posters here think the Cameron government is on their side and that a vote for them is somehow better than a vote for them is somehow better than for the others in the single party state which some call ‘Labour’.
It’s now being reported that because of the Tory cutback in training British nurses 80% of new recruits are foreign.
It’s the same with doctors too, a deliberate cutting of the number of training places at medical schools so the NHS has to recruit from abroad, and we’re then told that this is ‘good for us’ and if we object we are somehow ‘waycist’.
Of course Pravda Oh sorry the BBC are fully behind all this and have trotted out the inevitable socialist state line that it’s fantastic that the NHS have found people prepared to put up with treating the white scum they hate so much.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-30511192
compare the short eulogising article from the BBC with the one from the Mail, which outlines many more of the concerns of reasonable people.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2876774/Four-five-new-nurses-NHS-wards-foreign-Influx-6-000-recruited-abroad-leads-fears-lack-English-language-skills-jobs-properly.html
The National death service is a disaster, anyone whose been treated in a hospital overseas knows this. Many of the employees cannot speak English to any standard despite the promises, in fact a neighbour knew a Pakistani girl who didn’t have the best English getting a job assessing the English skills of prospective NHS employees !
There’s only one way to break this vicious cycle and that’s a vote for UKIP, although given the damage that’s already been done I believe only a complete social collapse and a military coup is the only way to save the country.
In these circumstances the British are always described as lazy, feckless and workshy, not willing to do work that immigrants will.
I dont think its quite that simple and have this theory that when taking on low paid work or indeed any work, one wants to feel part of a team, but its increasingly difficult as being a Brit one can actually feel like an outsider among ones workmates. Would a nurse be keen to take on a job in the NHS where 80%+ of her/his workmates are foreign? I wouldn’t.
I have a good friend over 40 ex management but because of his age can only get temp work, currently working in a warehouse and if what he says is true 90% of his colleagues are foreign. They communicate in their own language making him feel like an outsider. He detests it and can’t wait to leave after Christmas, naturally one wants to feel that one ‘belongs’.
If you add in the fact that these people live ten to a rented property, the whole ‘British won’t do the work thing’ is more complex than might appear.
”Would a nurse be keen to take on a job in the NHS where 80%+ of her/his workmates are foreign?”
Several years ago the government was recruiting nurses from Finland and Sweden, anti white racist Diane Abbott disagreed and squealed ” I don’t want blonde, blue-eyed Finnish nurses taking jobs at my local hospital, I want nurses that look like my constituents,” in other words Afro Caribbean.
Bernie Grant waded in with more anti white racism, ” Bringing someone here from Finland who has never seen a black person before and expecting them to have some empathy with black people is nonsense. Scandinavian people don’t know black people – they probably don’t know how to take their temperature.”
http://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/huge-nursing-shortage-despite-recruitment-8306529
Proof that successive iterations of the one party state have deliberately pursued a policy of not training sufficient nurses so they could allow more immigrants into the UK and attack white people and brand them workshy & feckless.
Yesterday in one of its “news in the future” items (according to the Today running order) John Dickinson, a solicitor at Public Interest Lawyers – who are leading on the Al-Sweady Inquiry – was interviewed apropos of the then to-be-released report. As it turned out, the report unequivocally condemned both PIL and their fellow shysters, Leigh Day, for their conduct in respect of these non-goings on in Iraq.
In the light of some genuine news (ie the release of the report and the condemnation) what information did Today convey this morning? I’ll tell you: nothing. I heard nothing on the 8:00 am “news”; there were no interviews with any nauseatingly self-righteous lefty legal aid
abusersdependants. Moreover, the “review” of this morning’s papers (both Times and Telegraph front pages featured front and centre the Al-Sweady report condemnation of the lawyers involved) concentrated on the rejoicing over Obama’s recognition of the Cuban thugocracy.This is the small change of BBC bias: an embarrassing (to the BBC and its lefty clientele) item of real news was thrown down the BBC memory hole.
You couldn’t expect them to fit it in to this morning’s Today – it was already full up with more important stories such as an interview with a gay footballer at 8:20.
Edit: hadn’t seen Old Goat had already commented about this below.
. . . and not forgetting the three items from Peshawa (especially the scheduled final one from Pakistani novelist Mohsin Hamid and New York Times bureau chief Declan Walsh). Also, the BBC couldn’t have omitted the vital
propagandaannouncement at 08:50 from Harrabin concerning the good news about a drop in per person electricity consumption in the UK. Unfortunately, the BBC provides no or no accessible (in a short search of the BBC website) back-up for Harrabin’s assertions in the form of checkable statistics: a signature feature BTW of climate mock-science and Harrabin’s mock-journalism.Harrabin might jump for joy that the per person consumption of electricity is going down, and you rightly say “where’s the evidence?” . However what he avoids and the rest of the leftward feeding mass in the hive ignore is the big elephant in the room; a growing unsustainable population will self evidently require not only more schools, hospitals and houses but far more importantly more electricity, more gas, more water, and more food.
Bring someone here from the 3rd world and their personal consumption of all four will automatically increase dramatically. Any Green efforts to reduce the UK’s carbon footprint is doomed to failure with a rising population, consumption per head might drop slightly with ever more windmills and charging 5p for a plastic bag but the number of cities the size of Birmingham we absorb every year is a tidal wave of demand which will only slow down with a similar slowdown in population growth.
Where Is Harribin to demand the ending of population growth as the only sure way to lower carbon consumption ? Is he that big a fool to think growth in numbers can be easily translated into no growth in carbon output ? He and the rest of the hive can either have population growth with increased carbon demand or a decrease in carbon caused by a static population moving away from coal and gas. They cannot have it both ways.
@Geoff
Agreed, but I’d go further. It’s pure propaganda, very cogent when presented so relentlessly, but mere narrative management.
It’s like the low-skilled UK workforce has suffered a collective constructive dismissal.
Agreed, but not just low skilled.
An alternative description might be “ethnic cleansing”.
Why do the BBC obsess so much about homosexual sportspersons?
My ears were beleaguered by some tart interviewing a player, who has “come out as gay”, having left a certain club because his team-mates in the “locker room” called him a fag/faggot and made nasty remarks about his, er, sexuality?
Why is that important to me? Why should I care? Do the BBC interview sports people who are heterosexual in terms of their sexuality, or whether they have “come out” as such? Where’s the balance?
Had it occurred to this person (and interviewer, for that matter), that comments were made because the majority of players were not of that sexual, er, “bent”?
I’m getting heartily sick of constant “news” about gays, racists, feminists and climate change.
Classic FM for the rest of the day, I think.
“I’m getting heartily sick of constant “news” about gays, racists, feminists and climate change.”
I’m surprised you haven’t got there already. I have.
Now we’re being told that we must go further along the way to crippling ourselves financially by accepting fatties as disabled, regardless of the cause.
Everything in this country is upside down and back to front.
“I’m surprised you haven’t got there already. I have.”
Me too and it gets worse each day!
Still to cheer us up the MSM are proud to report that Elton John is marrying his husband again (WTF?) and that employees at the Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) should not send Christmas cards showing skin or use the word ‘Merry’ in case it should offend….
It’s not just this country, read the right websites and you’ll see that the major countries of Europe are sick to the back teeth of it..Holland’s liberals are trying to take Geert Wilders down for ‘racist chanting’! It’s all on the back of his PVV party growing by the day.
FN in France, UKIP in the UK, PVV in Holland, anti nazislam marches in Germany..people have had enough of the liberal garbage, lies and nose poking into all of our lives. The fightback was always going to happen.
The Labour Party, 1997-2010, dumped mass immigration on us to “rub our noses in diversity”. And since then all the rest of the Lib/Lab/Con cultural-Marxist nonsense about “islamophobia”, gay marriage, GLTB(XYfuc*ingZ) rights, and whatever else they dream up to beat us over the head with has exactly the same purpose. It seems to me that those of us who are sick and tired of having our noses rubbed in it have no-one to represent them but UKIP, who against all the odds, have at least managed to bring about the start of the counter-revolution.
What I would like to know and the BBBC cannot and will not answer is why don’t the refugees from Syria and Iraq go to somewhere like Saudi Arabia or United Arab Emirates ? Why do they have to come to the West??????
I can’t speak for the Saudis or Gulf Emirates but the ‘refugees’ who arrive in Israel from Eritreria and the Sudan have to pass through Egypt first. Security forces continued to shoot foreign migrants, refugees and asylum-seekers who sought to cross Egypt’s Sinai border into Israel. If they escape or manage to pay off the Egyptian guards, people-traffickers reportedly extorted, raped, tortured and killed refugees, asylum-seekers and migrants crossing the Sinai Peninsula into Israel, as well as forcibly removing their organs to sell on the black market. (Source Amnesty International
Does anyone expect different from the Saudis/Emiratis?
Surely they could go to Gaza now that, according to the UK supreme court – the one in Luxembourg, not the one in London – Hamas are not terrorists after all. Infinitely preferable, I would have thought, to seeking refuge with those devil-Zionists: or maybe they know something the BBC doesn’t . . .
Because, Mrs Kitty, despite those countries being basket-cases, their people are superior, in almost every conceivable way, to the feckless, crude, ukip-voting natives who live on these isles.
Our metropolitan islamic enclaves are already truly something of which to be proud, and the est’ment is not done yet, there’s plenty more to come.
It’s all for our own good, you see.
I wonder if the BBC misogynists will take comfort from this, after all they do so love DECC:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/11300717/Dont-say-Merry-Christmas-it-might-offend-someone-says-Whitehall-guidance.html
I have known many Muslims in my life and not one of them, even the ones who were bordering on the insane were upset my ‘merry Christmas.’ Muslims revere Christ, not as Christians do but as a minor prophet. Wishing a Muslim ‘merry Christmas’ should not be verboten on the grounds that it will upset them.
Or are they worried about upsetting exploding atheists?
Isn’t there a ‘oohman Right’ about freedom of religion and doesn’t such instructions breach this?
pah,
“Isn’t there a ‘oohman Right’ about freedom of religion and doesn’t such instructions breach this?”
You seem to have overlooked these four little words in the Telegraph report; “…according to The Sun”.
It’s just another one of their annual “Christmas is Banned” stories, and as usual, complete rubbish:
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/merry-christmas-decc-ban-has-whitehall-really-forbidden-use-of-the-word-christmas-in-cards-9933922.html?origin=internalSearch
Which one is more honest the Sun or the Independent?
Answer? Neither; they are both staffed by lying scum.
As for what we can and cannot say anymore, I wonder, Can I still say “Fuck off you vile fascist PC prick?” to those people?
I don’t care actually. I am saying it anyway!
Yet another attempt by the BBC to portray domestic violence as exclusively male-on-female with this report http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-30532087
The image of a man smacking a woman, and the quote from Polly Neat of “Women’s Aid” show a complete lack of partiality. And, as anyone with an attention span can figure out, the Beeb’s constant insistence on forcing this naive and outdated account of domestic abuse and female victimisation runs completely counter to its support and appeasement of Islam, a belief system built on misogyny and the absolute antithesis of freedom for all people and tolerance.
The PC liberal agenda that the BBC forces into all of its news output and a large amount of its other programming is a threat to everyone that believes in the values of equality, democracy and free speech.
The photograph used in the article shows the laziness and lack of imagination in the BBC. They have used it dozens of time before over the past 5 years, in topics as diverse as, er, human trafficking, women’s mental health problems in Wales, grooming and genital mutilation (all of which are PROBLEMS CAUSED BY MEN). Let’s hope the model is getting her fair share of royalties! Here’s a small selection:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-11960736
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-bristol-14216808
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/8377836.stm
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-28841368
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-17021859
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-12156198
You could almost believe that’s the only stock image of a white girl in distress the BBC have and they feel that to use an image of a black or Asian woman would reinforce negative stereotypes
How else can you explain the use of that picture in conjunction with genital mutilation?
Just another of those BBC coincidences I guess.
Ah, but they are just preparing us for the day when all white girls will be forcibly mutilated in this country to accommodate the needs of Those Men…
2.25am BBC News 24 . 18/12/14
Promotional piece (on the news?) for a Cambodian muslim (female) ‘artist’ who felt “…more muslim than Cambodian…”, who proceeded to insult buddhists and liken them to ‘bugs’ and referring to them as ‘[adjective] creatures’. Subtle stuff BBC! This is islamaphilia in action!
BBC. No ethics, no moral compass, no future.
BBC-NUJ to discriminate its broadcasting output even more under HARDING.
Beeboids to implement politically discriminating use of Licence Fee fee to benefit non-white people in British society.
Are Beeboids aware of their own racism?
[Excerpt from ‘Guardian’ report on BBC News]:-
“More effort would go into addressing the ‘information inequality’ in the country where ‘rich old white people [got] a better diet of news than poorer, younger and non-white’ licence fee payers, he said. Engagement with local news providers might help address that.
“’It’s incumbent on us at the BBC to see who those communities are and why they are not being served.’
“Asked about the recent suggestion, by supporters of a campaign launched by Lenny Henry, that black people should stop paying the licence fee because of a lack of representation he said the actor, who will guest edit the Today programme over the holidays, was an ‘extremely powerful, useful voice in making us address this’. He urged everybody to keep paying licence fee, however.
http://www.theguardian.com/media/2014/dec/18/bbc-news-denies-panorama-separate-production-unit?
This blatantly biased political stance by Beeboid HARDING surely represents another nail in the Licence Fee coffin.
Harding makes the following politically absurd, self-serving assertions He is converting the BBC into even more of an overt political organisation, with a discriminating agenda:
1.) some people in British society have access to ‘better’ news information than other people (coining the ludicrous notion of “information inequality”); and that Beeboids sould take it upon themselves, as some divine socialist right, to discriminate in the provision of news information towards poorer, young, non-white pople and discriminate against less poor, older, white people.
2.) when someone like Mr Henry complains that there appears to be, to him, an inadequate and inappropriate black presence in BBC broadcasting output, then Beeboids should recognise the politically powerful significance of the source of that complaint.
So Beeboids feel it is entirely politically appropriate that the ‘Today’ progamme is given over to Mr Henry; but Beeboids are reluctant, even on the basis of Mr Henry’s profound complaint, to allow that black people, and not white people, should be exempt from paying the BBC poll tax.
This being the Mr. Harding who doesn’t see even bent BBC rules as applying to BBC staff? That Mr. Harding?
‘So Beeboids feel it is entirely politically appropriate that the ‘Today’ progamme is given over to Mr Henry; but Beeboids are reluctant, even on the basis of Mr Henry’s profound complaint, to allow that black people, and not white people, should be exempt from paying the BBC poll tax.’
See… balance!
There is a simple solution to ‘information equality’. The BBC should stop criminalising those who cannot afford to pay for their licence and, in the spirit of equality, end the licence fee for all.
There sorted. Wasn’t hard. Any takers at the BBC? Nope? Thought not.
Has anyone else noted the frightening, break neck speed at which the bbbc have dropped from their news the enquiry about the ‘battle of Danny Boy’. Even when they did report it they concentrated on the miniscule breaches of human rights of the murdering scum that our brave chaps had been fighting against. Similarly with the other murderous creature that kidnapped the people in the coffee shop in Sydney.
These incidents clearly don’t fit in with their total appeasement/pro islam style of reporting when it comes to the ‘religion of peace’ and no doubt they found it necessary to ‘move on’ to more important news such as Sony pulling what was obviously a totally crap, unfunny film, ‘The Interview’………..
Always the same they will never change
Clearly the BBC has a unique editorial integrity on what is, or is not ‘news’ ((c) A. Newsroom Tealady).
Oddly, adverse stories about the BBc or its fellow travellers does often seem destined for the latter designation.
You could ask them who decides but, with Snowden levels of transparency they’ll hit the exemption bunker before you can say ‘purposes of’, and may even start expediting proceedings.
Just to lighten the mood pre Christmas (if we’re allowed to use that word)
Normally an unfunny subject, but –
The Best excuses for not paying television licence !
1. “My mum died. She had a payment card. I’m going to a clairvoyant to ask her where she put her card.”
2. “My son lost his tooth and the next day we found the TV under the stairs. We thought it was a present from the Tooth Fairy so didn’t need a TV Licence.”
3. “My cousin is not here anymore, she used to pay it for me. And now she has left me. She was also my wife. I’ve lost my cousin and my wife in one go.”
4. “I don’t need one because I’m Jesus Christ”
5. “I don’t use my TV to watch TV programmes. I use it to hang my clothes so they dry.”
6. “My husband gave me the TV Licensing money and I spent it on my new Kurt Geiger shoes.”
7. “I was told I didn’t need a TV Licence because I haven’t got a remote control.”
8. “I couldn’t afford to pay it as I had to get the cat neutered.”
9. “I’m Australian and I only watch Home and Away and Neighbours, and I don’t pay for a TV Licence in Australia, so I shouldn’t have to pay it here. Australia is 12 hours ahead, so it’s not live here.”
10. “The TV belongs to my dog. He got it for Christmas. Ask him to pay.”
I like No10, I really do!
The release of the movie “the interview” which mocks Kim jong un has been cancelled, due to the Koreans threatenig Sony, the BBC has made this into a major news item, the view of the beeb is ” its only a movie, why so serious” this is the same scummy BBC who felt sorry for the Muslims when cartoons decipting the prophet Mohamed are released, I’ve seen trailers and the movie is garbage, just a bunch of obese potty mouthed yanks attempting to be funny by using toilet humor, the 2 major stories about the terrorist siege in Sydney and the Taliban murdering over 100 schoolkids have vanished, even the story about Rory jutting the British man accused of murder in Hong Kong ran for 2 weeks, this is because jutting is a straight white man, what about the bastard who behead a pensioner in Tottenham? The same crap about ” Diminished responsiblity/ lets bash the authorities” e attacker was black and his name was never mentioned by the bbc
Apparently the movie ‘features’ the assassination of Kim Jung On. That’s a little more than mocking. Granted that Kim might deserve it but doesn’t that sound like incitement to murder? Where would the BBC draw the line — is it OK to make a movie about the killing of Cameron but not Milliband? How about Thatcher (R.I.P.) but not John Major?
Sony are a shitty company run by lawyers, to be honest the sooner they go bust the better.
They attempted to sue some poor school kid who released the code which allowed PS3 to be used as a PC with a Linux OS. After selling the thing with this facility they decided people would be potentially able to play PC games on it, which are cheaper, so released a mandatory download which locked out the PC function.
The kid found the access code to unlock it and published it on the net – Sony’s lawyers sued. Talk about a corporate sledgehammer to crack a nut!
The hacking group anonymous decided Sony’s misbehaviour needed calling to account and half a billion dollars later Sony gave in.
It cost the half a billion dollars, and being lawyers they learned absolutely nothing from the attack!
This is the company which ruined SACD & Bluray with needless copy protection and then had to give away free downloads with every copy sold.
This is the company whose lawyers protected it to the hilt, but allowed 10 million of its customers financial data to be lost.
So now when it’s been hacked again any sane and rational person would assume that security measures would have been put in place, and the staff warned about insecure communication methods.
But no! This is a company run by lawyers, and it’s illegal to hack computers so it won’t happen or people will be very naughty and taken to court, only they don’t know who the people are and if they are from North Korea it’s going to be something of a job getting them to stand trial in America!
I have no sympathy for Sony or their lawyers who don’t appear to understand that many people have no respect for the law, and that their lawyers antics ruins their products and pisses their customers off no end !
Yes but `Team America ` was brilliant , took the piss out of the little mini mee`s dad ,& payed `homage` to Gerry Anderson & Thunderbirds .
Team America is a brilliant film and well worth watching but it was about Fatty Kim’s equally ludicrous father. There were no hacking attacks or death threats after it AFAIR; perhaps pa was less prone to the pain of personal attacks than his moronic son, despite being so lonely?
Busy militants capture villagers. Nothing to do with Islam I guess. But the short article mentions militants six times
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-30529178
Analysis: Will Ross, BBC News, Lagos
But of course if the above is an ‘analysis’ then I’m a Booker Award winning author. I dare you to read it and then attempt to explain if you’re any the wiser as to who these ‘Boko Haram militants’ are or what they represent, because the insightful Mr Ross ain’t spilling the beans.
The BBC: Never knowingly reporting the actual news.
Yes, and for INBBC, inc Mishal Husain, on Peshawar jihad massacre-
“Taliban spokesman:
‘The Peshawar attack is in complete accordance with the Prophet’s teachings.'”
http://www.jihadwatch.org/2014/12/taliban-spokesman-the-peshawar-attack-is-in-complete-accordance-with-the-prophets-teachings#comments
BBC Scotland and the SNP seem to be quiet about the potential collapse of the North Sea Oil industry, today, although the story is on the website. The SNP’s infantile dream was based on voodoo economics and lies. I’d wager that even the Yes voters will probably be quietly relieved that Unionism prevailed lol Pathetic!
….but didn’t you hear Nicola Midget on the telly last week saying…
‘Most analysts expect the oil price to be back over $100 next year.’
A straight lie.
She’s all yours Scotland, and good luck with that.
No sh*t Sherlock!
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/11301745/BBC-failing-to-address-radical-Islam-and-other-tough-topics.html
Lord Pantone, Danny OrElse! and Laurels for Harding must be thrilled when a fellow market rate alumni tells them they are pants at their overpaid jobs.
Worth the read for the inevitable, if now predictably identikit ‘tell it often enough’ self-deluding platitudes from one of the £ToomanyK Men.
‘James Harding, heaped praise on Newsnight.
With Evan Davis at the helm in place of Jeremy Paxman, the flagship BBC Two programme “is getting back to what it should be: the most interesting news programme on British television. It’s got back its confidence, ambition, wit and real intelligence.”
If you say so. But really, it is worse than that , Jim. A lot worse. Only you can’t admit it.
Any other ‘belief’, Jim?
“It is, to my mind, Britain’s best loved and most respected export.”
In your mind, maybe, matey.
Usually it’s for others to say, and not enough are saying it to guarantee the telephone number dosh much longer?
Birt is being obtuse. There is no discussion about the serious matters facing this country because to do so would mean that those views that are diametrically opposed to the liberal consensus would have to be heard and that will not happen.
The elite is now very scared and running out of time.,The peasants are getting restless especially those stupid English in the shires.
The BBC cannot give real space and air time to the oppostion to liberalism- the real opposition and I mean men and women like Daniel Greenfield, Pamela Geller, Paul Weston, Takuan Seiyo, Mark Steyn and Robert Spencer amongst many.
Their views and words cannot be heard except on the internet here.
So Birt’s attitude is pointless and makes everything worse. The usual liberal fudge. Appear to want to do what you have no intention of doing. This is how we are governed and how we are lectured by the liberal media.
Yes these BBC/liberal people would love to get control of the internet. So be warned.
This won’t stop Islam Not BBC (INBBC), inc Donnison and co:-
“Faked Hate: New FBI hate crime stats show yet again that claims about ‘Islamophobia’ are false”
[Pamela Geller, opening excerpt]:-
“The latest FBI statistics are out, and they prove, yet again, what a myth ‘islamophobia’ really is. The fact is that ‘islamophobia’ is a device designed to crush any criticism of Islam. It is the knee-jerk response to jihad carnage — victimizing the victim. Islamic supremacists and their leftist shills now decry ‘islamphobia’ during Islamic terror attacks. While the terror-stricken hostages in the Lindt Chocolat Cafe in Sydney were forced to hold up an Islamic flag, Muslim leaders and enemedia outlets were decrying ‘fear of reprisals.’
It is a vicious, ugly lie.”
– See more at: http://pamelageller.com/2014/12/faked-hate-new-fbi-hate-crime-stats-show-yet-again-that-claims-about-islamophobia-are-false.html/#sthash.t3xZKC2N.dpuf
“Islamophobia”
Excellent 60 page pamphlet (PDF- available here, free).
By David Horowitz and Robert Spencer.
Click to access Islamophobia.pdf
Thanks for the link, George. Really interesting and valuable text! We need more pamphlets of truth which expose the leftist-Islamist fascism that is eating away at the world like a rotten cancer.
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again; I would love to time-travel into the future and see the horrified looks on the beeboids faces as they are rounded up and killed for their atheist, pro-gay opinions by the Shariah State they helped to create.
http://zeenews.india.com/news/world/isis-beheads-150-females-including-pregnant-women-for-refusing-to-marry-terrorists_1516433.html
Conservative, Orthodox, Militant, Rebel, Revolutionary ISIS’ Traders” at work?
‘100 villagers’ kidnapped in Nigeria by erm “militants”?
TA?, Nigerian army? no … boy scouts then?
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-30529178
… must be short on children to rape, gang rape and sell off as sex slaves
Just doing what the locals have done for a long time before the Europeans started being their best customers. Ever see a Hollywood or beeboid film showing European traders buying black slaves for use in plantations from the Muslim slavers ? No me neither, but that’s the dirty little fact they try to avoid.
And speaking of telephone numbers, in other news…
http://tradingaswdr.blogspot.co.uk/2014/12/hello-and-welcome.html?
‘BBC Chief Technology Officer John Linwood got a £140k joining bonus when he arrived at Auntie in March 2009.
Now it seems three other people were given signing on fees within 30 days of their employment with the BBC’
“I have counted them all in, and while there counted lots more… plus when I leave I count a bunch going out too”. Nice wor… before starting lolly if you can be gifted it.
Still, at least the BBC is nurturing Gaia:
http://tradingaswdr.blogspot.co.uk/2014/12/xmas-shelf-scoopy.html?
‘…and the chance to fly to Korea, and mention Shell again in the piece. Not a job for some unskilled BBC correspondent already in the area.’
OK, maybe not.
I’ve just watched the BBC treading on eggshells over the news that the grossly obese are to be protected against ‘discrimination’ in the workplace if their condition impedes their ability to perform their job. I fully expect related claims on behalf of gin-soaked midwives, paedophilic priests, and, oh yes, lunatics who wish to run asylums. Don’t tell ME that ‘you couldn’t make it up’ – I just did…
I now know where all the bent bananas went – they obviously ended up at the European Court.
I feel sure that I should have had a stellar career as a Premier League footballer on stratospheric wages. Tragically, a total inability to actually play football ended my dreams.
In light of today’s liberal and humane judgement, I have realised the fact that I’m not playing up front for Man U instead of the balding granny-botherer currently in possession is someone else’s fault and not my own: therefore, I am now demanding my weekly danegeld of £300,000 per week from today until the day I croak. In addition, I am demanding back payment of same dating back to the day I was born (since I was just as incapable of being a top footballer then as I am now).
Here’s a selection of BBC Radio 4 output from 17/12/2014:
10:41 JUST A GIRL by Mark Davies Markham. Amy’s desperation to get on the hormone blockers begins to worry her family, and her granddad Ted finally understands her predicament.
10:55 THE LISTENING PROJECT – Fi Glover with a conversation between friends of Nigerian origin, reflecting on their culture’s intolerance of homosexuality and its effect on their lives and their friendship.
14:15 PINK BOY BLUE GIRL by Mateusz Dymek. Stockholm couple Haakan and Cati want to raise their child gender neutrally. But are their reasons as politically correct as they appear?
16:00 THINKING ALLOWED – … Laurie Taylor explores how overweight gay men respond to the ‘body beautiful’ in gay culture. Also, the masculine world of the butchers.
19:45 (Repeat of the broadcast at 10:41; see above.)
20:00 (Immigrants talking … )
So, only five programmes about homosexuality and/or gender reassignment, and then one with largely non-British people talking about Britishness; all funded by an aggressively enforced poll tax. I am losing the will to live.
Since this sounds like one of Peter Simple’s columns about the GPI Network (“Representing ALL Shades Of Progressive Opinion”) under the leadership of Neville Dreadberg, I thought at first you’d made it up for a bit of pre-Christmas fun and frolic.
But then I actually looked up the listings………..
So, only five programmes about homosexuality and/or gender reassignment
Two and a bit, one of which was repeated – a play about parents refusing to conform to boy-girl stereotypes in bringing up their child has nothing to do with homosexuality, and Thinking Allowed wasn’t dedicated solely to one topic.
But even so, that accounts for less than 2 hours’ airtime, and even then that’s far, far more than an average day.
How dreadful for you that you must be subjected to a radio station that isn’t anything like your idea of a radio station. And what a blessed relief for everybody else.
It would be nice to have more proportionality in the Radio 4 output, that’s all.
I really don’t mind a few programmes about people who wish to change gender, or even ones about Aztec underwater motorcycling enthusiasts, but there needs to be some sense of proportion with the numbers concerned. The 2011 Census would be a guide to the numbers of gay people in Britain, for instance, and output might reflect that.
By the way Film Fan (or is it Scott?) I didn’t equate PINK BOY BLUE GIRL with homosexuality; that’s just a bit of projection by you: what part of “and/or” don’t you understand? Also, please don’t presume to speak for “everybody else” – I wouldn’t and you shouldn’t.
And/or? It’s not about gender reassignment either, but about parenting. It’s also not very good, having listened to it when it first aired in 2011, but that’s by the by.
And if you want representation, why do you dismiss all the people who aren’t as reactionary as you, and who don’t feel that every minute of every day off the schedules must represent them?
Instead of resorting to the usual ad hominem abuse, read what I actually said, i.e. that the BBC’s output should better reflect society as a whole, rather than the minorities with whom it is increasingly obsessed.
See, for example, Ian Rushlow’s comment below about the small proportion of the UK identifying as homosexual; I don’t mind programming aimed at minorities, but there is a serious question of proportionality to address here. The 15-minute serial ‘Just A Girl’ (at the end of ‘Woman’s Hour’) came after last week’s offering, about the Greenham Common protest and a woman discovering she was gay.
As to your charge of being a reactionary, on the contrary, it is your defence of the BBC that is reactionary: the new radical viewpoint is that the BBC must be reformed – or else abolished in its present form – because it is so elitist and unrepresentative of those who are forced to fund it. Your second paragraph is a travesty of my position.
Hi Scott , long time no see, where you been bro ?
I love the “boy -girl stereotypes”.
What on earth does that phrase mean?
Is it like saying ‘Squirrel- hedgehog stereotype”?
I really really would like to know.
Dave, you really ought to know better by now! Distinctions such as boy-girl and plant-animal are all merely bourgeois social constructions. Don’t you EVER pay attention to Laurie Taylor and Dame Jenni?
This is surely a piss take? In the best tradition of pantomime (now banned by the BBC) – join in kids – OH NO IT’S NOT!!!!!
According to a survey commissioned by the last government, about 1.5% of the population describe themselves as homosexual. If the BBC was reflective of the country in its output we could expect around 22 minutes of daily boadcasting recognisably aimed at this demographic. Some of the other, more exotic lifestyles they promote may not actually exist outside of the imagination of those who fantasise about Berlin night clubs circa 1930, but an occasional programme about the writings of Christopher Isherwood might cater for them.
You assume the only people interested would be LGBT themselves (let’s not go down the rabbit hole of all the research that has demonstrated how much responses to surveys on sexual orientation vary depending on question methodology).
There are plenty of people who want to hear about lives different to theirs. Or people with LGBT friends and family. Funny how whenever Biased BBC starts whining on about “representation”, those people get ignored.
But then, I guess thinking of people different to oneself with respect and understanding isn’t exactly a Biased BBC trait…
all the research that has demonstrated how much responses to surveys on sexual orientation vary depending on question methodology
That is true of all poll based research. that is why there is an exacting science behind the compilation of questionnaires.
But then, I guess thinking of people different to oneself with respect and understanding isn’t exactly a filmfan trait…
Wrong again, Scott! It is precisely the BBC elite metropolitan smart set who are incapable of respecting or understanding the majority of people who don’t agree with them. They might not agree with, for instance, UKIP, but they could try to understand why so many people voted for UKIP in the European elections. Xenophilia can be a vice just as much as xenophobia.
Who let Scott back on this blog? Oh, I see – someone posted a comment mentioning gays and transsexuals . Always trigger words that get Scott on his soap box.
By the way, speaking of GAYS, sometime ago a regular wondered when the BBC were going to have homosexual couples dancing on Strictly Come Dancing. That post must have given the Beeb some ideas. Last night on Strictly’s spin off programme, they had an item on just that subject. The item just seemed to have been stuck into the programme , or should I say hammered on with six inch nails, just to add “diversity”. Usually I find something else to do when my wife watches that show, but even she asked why that item was slipped into the programme.
Mustapha, I’ve taken the liberty of reposting your comment on Breitbart – hope you don’t mind.
Thanks! I’m flattered, Old Goat … but which comment did you mean? I have been rather prolific recently, for which my apologies, if anyone is tired of my anti-Radio 4 diatribes.
No need to apologise but I would urge you stop listening to R4. It’ll do wonders for your peace of mind.
Your selection of BBC output – it’s here, in all its glory:
http://www.breitbart.com/london/2014/12/19/women-today-are-thriving-its-men-we-should-be-worried-about/#comment-1750051025
There was more of the same on Radio 4 on Friday a.m., though less disproportionate this time: part 5/5 of the sex-change serial ‘Just A Girl’ up to 11 a.m., then 30 minutes on 3 transsexual former men (silly me, I meant ‘people raised as males’) who had become females. One of these two broadcasts would have been quite enough; two in a row is unrepresentative.
This clip shows your typical leftist bias of the smug, BBC interviewer:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=idxUlYsSqKo
I wonder what we’d find if we delved into BBC journalists’ teenage years?
Not hard to guess. Studying politics. Talking politics. Going on political marches. Not getting laid.
Embarrassing, why didn’t the bbc turd just have done with it and start the interview with..”So, Adolf, when do you build the first concentration camp”? We all know it’s exactly what the fascist scum think.
It’s not only this country that recognises the problem it has and the role of those inside itself that wish it harm, this sounds very like the actions of the
http://www.pprune.org/8787743-post307.html
We are part of a world wide coalition of Anglo Saxon nations whose very existence is in peril now..
Yes, this is an interesting angle, and I think the author is probably correct that abandoning the ‘policy’ of multi-culturalism could be the first step if western civilisation is to have half a chance.
I say ‘policy’ because we were never asked to vote for it, or given any choice at all. More an ‘imposition’ by those who think they are our betters, than a policy.
Despite UKIP being incredibly naive politically, their level of support I think shows the huge and growing dissatisfaction with the legacy parties – that have so let us down this past thirty years.
If another party with some of the same ideas could arise, but without UKIPs feeble-mindedness, I think they could attract a huge audience. Not in time for May 2015 though!
Ah, another PPrune member!
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2879588/BBC-bosses-spend-thousands-week-long-stay-luxury-Los-Angeles-rock-star-hotel-Sunset-Marquis.html
For goodness sake, if this ideology continues, there will be no English footballers in the English leagues. We are crap at international football Mr Dyke, why do you think that is??? Thick sh*t!
http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/30534439
The way to bring more Asians into premier leagues is to bring more Asians in children’s leagues. Same as any other sport. The cream will float to the top.
I’ve had a brain-wave about how to get more Muslims into English football (thereby enriching it greatly, of course) AND reduce the number of so-called ‘terrorist’ acts by bored youths who don’t have enough to do, because society neglects them: start up a new team in the Midlands, and call it “The Lone Wolves of Molineux”.
I thought the lone wolves of molineux played in league one, that’s why they are called lone wolves…….nobody bothers to watch their brand of ‘football’ all the fans went to watch the ‘Baggies’……………..and I used to live in a house about 500 yards from the place……..Fortunately I was never a fan.
I think Dyke is referring to South Asians, rather than to Asians in general as the names he quotes are all from the Indian sub-continent, rather than say China, Japan and Korea. I also rather suspect it is a part of the world he knows nothing about. But were he to visit India or Pakistan, he would find that on bits of spare land throughout those countries, boys are playing cricket, cricket and more cricket. Playing football is largely unknown, it simply isn’t part of the local culture and tradition. Just about the only exception to this is in the tiny state of Goa – formerly a Portuguese colony – where boys in villages play football as much as they play cricket (but with a population of under 2 million in a country of 1250 million, it is hardly representative, although it does dominate football in India’s lamentable football league, the ISL). It is not surprising that Indians in this country have maintained this interest in playing cricket rather than football, although they are often keen supporters of the bigger clubs.
Dyke famously once described the BBC as “hideously white”. It seems that when it comes to Asians (sic) and football, he may be “hideously ignorant”.
Not the old asian chestnut, I’d like to ask Dyke..”Why”, why do we need more asians in football?
I started following FC United of Manchester when they started up, after they moved to Bury’s ground they started a campaign to attract more asian people to watch FC as there was an asian community close to the ground..the result? Not one came to the ground.
The game is starting to take off in India, they love the PL and have started their own league, we’ll see more Indians in football pretty soon, it’s simply not the same in pakistan, it may do in the future, but, as it is with integration, you can’t force the matter, it simply won’t work.
If their culture evolves in this country we may see it in the future but while parents who are from the old country still think being a doctor or a computer scientist is a better vocation then i wouldn’t bet on it.
I watched a FC United game at Gigg a few years ago and there were no ‘asians’ there despite the local community living a few minutes away from the ground. They don’t watch Bury either. They’re into cricket; it means a lot to them to get one over the old enemies – Pakistan and England. When Pakistan beat England in the 1992 CWC they went mental at my college. They seemed to think I’d be bothered by it – I didn’t care, it mean’t nothing to me … can’t stand cricket.
surprise, surprise
BBC and its twitterfarties erm … “trending”
Sydney cafe: Australians say to Muslims “I’ll ride with you”
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/blogs-trending-30479306
“Sydney siege: backtrack over post that inspired #illridewithyou,”
“Rachael Jacobs has admitted that she “editorialised’’ parts of her story”
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/in-depth/sydney-siege-backtrack-over-post-that-inspired-illridewithyou/story-fnqxbywy-1227160626854?nk=90e277a5082c082ebaa5cf9995bb096a
“editorialised’’ ? 😀 … at the very outset, one could, “smell a rat”
once again propaganda, and victim narrative
Israeli photographer ‘horrified’ at use of bloody shoe photo. BBC Trending seems willing to tackle issue that BBC won’t like fauxtography.
http://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-trending-30498745
#illridewithyouthenexplode
150, 000 tweets … sheesh! that many Islamic “victimsTM” in Oz?
man! … have they got problems
Former BBC man Michael Crick now with Channel 4 news has a wizard wheeze. Every evening in a five minute spot he tells us all about some minor UKIP figure who might have been caught jay walking.
Yes, I witnessed his Godawful performance last night, with the “story” about allegedly unpaid child allowance things by a female UKIP candidate. It really was bottom-of-the-barrel scraping stuff, and typical of Channel 4 in general, and Crick in particular. Did you notice the sheer venom in Ms Long’s voice and demeanour when she introduced the piece?
They HATE UKIP, but not nearly as much as I hate Channel 4. I am increasingly watching Russia Today for my news (Freesat Channel 206).
Further to that, it seems that Channel 4’s “Gogglebox” programme has now “sacked” one of their families, because a member has announced his UKIP candidacy:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/tvandradio/11301222/gogglebox-sacks-family-andrew-michael-ukip.html
Channel 4 are a bunch of shites, aren’t they?
http://www.peshkar.co.uk/latest/2014/12/10/peshkars-where-are-you-from-our-teenage-years-wins-heritage-lottery-fund-support
Peshkar has received £49,400 from the Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF)
“This innovative project will work closely with a range of culturally and age specific stakeholder organisations and use our multi platform arts engagement approach to enable disengaged young people to learn about oral history, record the changing experiences of teenagers within transient communities, what heritage means to individuals and the impact of cultural changes on the social make up of these towns.”
Errrrr ……..what?
This is basically proof that there is loads of money sloshing around just waiting to be wasted, because when it’s been spent on Pakistanis documenting how wonderful (apart from the weather and the white people) life is in Britain.
Although in their write up they do mention white people, they are there as a token sop only, and unless they speak Urdu they won’t be able to participate.
This is the kind of project beloved of the BBC, so I expect to see it mentioned in the near future if only on local news.
Take a look at the site and see just what a bunch of crazy loons these people are !
“Those whom the gods would destroy, they first make mad. But not before they’ve fleeced their pockets and taken details of their bank accounts”. With apologies to Longfellow and Enoch Powell.
I’m certainly finding it increasingly difficult to avoid the conclusion that the Western world, or at least those in positions of power, have been afflicted by some kind of madness.
Not for nothing do we currently live in the Age of Stupid.
Yes you’ve only got to see a windmill to realise that one.
Thoughtful,
“Errrrr ……..what?”
“The project will look at the teenage experience from 1927 – present day… It will form a fascinating understanding of life as a teenager in different ages, different communities, different towns and different countries and will look at how these experiences have woven together to create the present day Burnley and Oldham that now provides the backdrop for our current teenagers’ experiences.”
It’s an arts project funded by lottery money, which is exactly what the national lottery was set up for.
There; is that clear enough for you?
“Although in their write up they do mention white people, they are there as a token sop only…”
Bullshit:
“with specific focus on White British and South Asian communities.”
“…and unless they speak Urdu they won’t be able to participate.”
More bullshit. That’s just something you made up – or a complete lie in other words. Well done you.
“BBC news ‘is aimed at rich, white, old people’
… and that’s what the Corporation’s OWN head of news says.
“BBC News is better for ‘rich, old, white people’ than others, says BBC exec.
“Director of news James Harding said BBC needs to ‘redress the balance.’
“Mr Harding came under fire from MPs for the remarks made in a speech.
“Conservative MP Angie Bray said Mr Harding’s views were ‘patronising.’
By SAM CREIGHTON
FOR THE DAILY MAIL.
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2879941/BBC-news-aimed-rich-white-old-people-s-Corporation-s-head-news-says.html#ixzz3MKeLqJF2
‘Viewers who are not rich, old and white may want to look away now…’
http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2014/12/19/24266CDA00000578-2879941-image-a-10_1418948076106.jpg
To be fair, they are who they claim to be aiming at.
Given the actual output, they appear to be missing by a country mile anyway.
Another ‘tell it often enough’, foot in mouth special from one of the BBC’s too rich, white, male market talents.
Well, I’m a rich, old white person, and I think that the BBC news is crap.
He must think rich white old people are left wing and stupid, then.
Oooh, not me!
Heh! Memo to self: always work out where a reply is going to end up and choose wording appropriate to it!
As a rich, old, white person (okay, not exactly rich and not too old) I would therefore like the news read to me by people who vaguely share those characteristics. As most of the BBC ‘news’ readers seem to be ethnics, I think it time for the BBC to ‘redress the balance’.
Pathetic and a another sign that the BBC has lost it’s way. In a real organisation that had real funding not a forced tax this would be a sign that investors should sell now.
With executives as clueless as this man Harding the only way is down.
“Harding Hard Of Hearing?”
BBC radio 4 Today, has some left wing Fascist on who has decided that angels at the top of Christmas tree are “too judgemental” !
You really couldn’t make it up! Where do they find these people ? Probably from amongst their own staff!
What will you do with the angel from your tree?
I think I’ll throw it on the fire & instead read Russell Brand
I think that just about sums Radio 4 up!
Panorama is a funny beast.
It prides itself on investigating, and can be valuable in this role, but more often than not these ‘investigations’ turn into hatchet jobs based on damning by association Western corporates for actions down the supply chain. Which of course can also be to the good if market forces work through and improve the lot of all.
Where it stumbles a bit is the selectivity and parameters at play, which can have unintended consequences back at the office.
Apple is being slated by poor work practices in Chinese factories. A failure of a business to source ethically.
How then does the BBC square this with their purchasing thousands of Apple products to hand out to staff?
“…How then does the BBC square this with their purchasing thousands of Apple products to hand out to staff?
Shhh! We are not supposed to mention that. The BBC nearly declared a week of mourning when its favourite liberal left multimillionaire hipster, Steve Jobs (he of the unshaven, casual polo neck and jeans CEO chic style so beloved of our national Broadcaster) had the bad manners to die from pancreatic cancer.
Last night’s Panorama, exposing Apple’s dirty little working practices in China’s tech sweatshops (doubtless building all those overpriced iPhones and iPads so favoured by BBC commissars and apparatchiks), was an unusual glimpse into the BBC daring itself to actually try some honest journalism for once. It was a pretty good effort: quite a punch to the face for the smug, libtard Apple folk, so comfortable thousands of miles away in their sleek, very well appointed Silicon Valley ‘campus’.
The whole programme was a melancholy echo of what the BBC once used to do so well: report the facts, unvarnished and unbiased.
“favourite liberal left multimillionaire hipster”
You mean that one that made sure that like their other favourite Tony Benn, the company pays as little or no tax as is possible?
Just like the BBC ‘artists’ then ?
‘Shhh! We are not supposed to mention that.’
Sorry about that. And while accepting we are in ‘two wrongs don’t make a right’ territory, it also goes to BBC ‘holding to account’ demands of others that suddenly go very vague when their own actions don’t match their ethical outrage sensibilities. This extends from persons to companies to countries.
If Apple has been shown to be less than ethical factually (and their PR suggests they feel they are driven snow) between claim and reality, then a factual expose is right and proper.
From what you said, this was achieved. Fine.
But as is well known the BBC is, was and likely will be a bit of an Apple cheerleader, certainly well before this, and around the last little bit of negative coverage on Foxconn suicides.
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/aug/05/woman-nearly-died-making-ipad
This did not appear to factor in to their purchasing decisions at any significant points.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2570000/How-iSpend-licence-fee-Outrage-BBC-lavish-2-5million-4-000-iPhones-400-iPads-800-MacBooks-staff-just-two-years.html
Hence them getting on high horses about CSR or individual buying responsibilities in editorial seems to err on the two-track.
There is also the damage to one corporation through adverse PR when competitive companies may or may not be equally guilty. Is anyone sure Samsung is totally kosher as the Xmas rush starts. The BBC skewing markets with selective editorial is not unheard of, along with it holding Western countries to standards it suddenly goes coy over with others.
However, if this turns into the next outrage bus adventure, it will be interesting how many journos within the BBC and their audiences online will be doing so, irony-nervous, via their iEverything.
Certainly Paul Mason at Ch4 may well need a symbolic gather round the waste disposal if he took his collection from Aunty (that he bragged about) with him.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/legacy/newsnight/paulmason/2011/04/ipad_the_great_nature_theatre.html
(Note the comments on unusual levels of advocacy by Mr. Mason, and the BBC’s priorities in compatibilities)
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-15199917
‘When I went on holiday this year I took an iPad (for reading books on my Kindle App); my iPhone (for recording an impromptu story for Broadcasting House and getting my e-mail on); and my MacBook Pro, which has all the work I have done since the day Lehman Brothers fell stored on it. Ah yes, and a 160gb iPod.
It’s stuff like this that makes me crank an eyebrow at the calibre and coherence of input those who presume to lecture us actually speak from.
But if Panorama has pulled another Saville and served up something that will make the top floor’s whispering corridors of astounding uncuriosity and variable Alzheimers ratchet up the sack-o-rats level to 11 again, good.
The BBC should be held to account just as much as it presumes to do others.
If not, it is a unique too far.
Maybe they tried to enter into a corporate deal to buy lots more iPads and iPhones at a discount but Apple weren’t playing ball and so this is revenge?
INBBC Media City censors out Greater Manchester Islamic slavery.
But ‘Jihadwatch’ has:-
“UK: Muslims kept slave workers in squalid conditions”
http://www.jihadwatch.org/2014/12/uk-muslims-kept-slave-workers-in-squalid-conditions
I sent that one in, and posted it here as well.
Rochdale again. It seems that there is no shame in the Muslim community in that town and that they don’t care about UK law either.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2879941/BBC-news-aimed-rich-white-old-people-s-Corporation-s-head-news-says.html
Really??
Yes really – Guardian readers pretty much fit that description
A little nugget for the BBC, and the “so called”, un-Islamic, “nothing to do with Islam” Islamic State
Mind you, its getting a harder conundrum for them
with everything from militants, rebels to “traders” being
used to obfuscate, instead of Islamic mass murderers.
Wouldn t it be easier … just to tell the truth?
“If some of the people, Muslim or non-Muslim, who insist that the Islamic State is not Islamic would show how this penal code is contrary to Islam and Sharia.
But they will not do so,
… because they can’t”
R Spencer
http://www.memrijttm.org/memri-jttm-islamic-state-isis-publishes-penal-code-says-it-will-be-vigilantly-enforced.html
“How Western Media Enable Islamic Terrorism”
By Raymond Ibrahim.
INBBC receives worthy mention.
http://www.frontpagemag.com/2014/raymond-ibrahim/how-western-media-enable-islamic-terrorism/
So a £1 Billion ‘retainer’ has been given to the power generating companies to keep ‘obsolete’ generating plants online to keep the lights on should demand require it.
This will add another £11 of stealth tax to the average household bill.
There is no mention of the truly insane decision of Tony BLiar and the Liebour party to force the closures of these plants nor the failure to put in place any new generating capacity to replace it.
There was no mention of the Green fines which BLiar agreed to pay when the UK inevitably fails to meet the unrealistic carbon levels he set.
Just a simple matter of fact report, which we wouldn’t have had if it had been any other party responsible.
Any further comment would seem to be superfluous
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/11298217/BBC-release-Christmas-suicide-CD.html
‘The BBC is releasing what could be the most depressing Christmas album ever for the festive season which includes a song about committing suicide.’
‘The BBC describes the tunes, by artists including Rufus Wainwright, Blink-182 and The Futureheads as ‘sweet ’n’ sombre’.’
‘The album of “Christmas indie classics” is being marketed at hipster-types who believe they are too cool for Christmas. ‘
At risk of superfluity, just to add another quote that may see some wondering what is the point of it all anymore…
‘BBC Worldwide is run by Tim Davie, whose £670,000 pay package included a £230,000 bonus despite a drop in profits’
Maybe Panorama could do one of their specials on how the nu-breed of CEO appears to operate on bankster package deals?
The ‘political left’-media establishment:-
“What on earth qualifies Alan Rusbridger to run an Oxford college?”
By Dennis Sewell.
http://blogs.spectator.co.uk/dennis-sewell/2014/12/what-on-earth-qualifies-alan-rusbridger-for-an-academic-position/
Obvious! He lives ( or lived ) in the biggest and poshest house in Broad Campden , the next door and even richer village to Chipping Campden in the North Cotswolds. I used to drive past it when I lived in a much more run of the mill terrace nearby. A job in Oxford, around an hours drive and back to the country life ..what could be more pleasant for one who has run the Guardian and understands the problems of the working class such as Alan ?
Absolutely no point listening to either the BBC or Channel 4 any more.
Saw an ex Beeboid (Crick) present his Liberal paymasters with one stinking dead crock of a story about a woman from UKIP who`s ..err..not paying her CSA.
The complete antithesis of the usual lefty “women as victims” stuff…but this is a UKIP woman so can be burned at the white patriarchal stake if it keeps Crick in work, and helps Labour get in.
Does Crick have a CRB check?…the bloke is as oily and grotesque as Keith Vaz?
The BBC basically are segmenting the grievance mongers market, and playing to the wheelchairs in the gallery, the Mozzies in the Mosque or White Dees pals…we who pay for it all, try to do the right thing or know what Islam and White Dee/Russell Brand mean to out futures are scorned.
Thank Jesus for UKIP…
The BBC have already succeeded in perverting the course of any justice we might once have had…Jimmy Savile, say no more…and now they`re busy setting about SUBverting the course of any possible justice we could once have hoped for.
Witness the obesity as disability crap from Strasbourg, the rights of Columbian drugs mules to travel here without a visa..and then let Yvette Cooper or Charles Clarke tell us all how Labour were so grand on immigration…and you can see why the groaning buffet of Cyclops-like history, perpetual revolution, bile, cant and spittle is all we`re ever going to hear from the BBC and its liberal tool-tokers.
F*** em all-put Jesus back into Christmas, vote UKIP and stuff the liberal media up the jacksie of any angry jihadist who`s arse is facing Salford…Islam can eat them alive-but we`re not being fed to either evil-Islam or LabourBBC.
Some people may say…. fair enough!
Given the BBC’s broad agenda of in-built leftist biases, it can be awkward for the corporation – but rather enlightening for viewers – when two of those precious interests collide.
A case in point was the BBC tv news treatment of this story
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-30509212
‘Joint enterprise law review urged by Justice Committee’
This is the law: ‘which allows several people to be prosecuted for murder even though they may have played different roles’
The BBC on-line report only hints at the somersaults that would have to be performed by BBC tv news presenters.
This is how it goes – The BBC are hardly known as supporting the hang ’em and flog ’em brigade. So queue sob stories about miscarriages of justice, general it’s not fair and lashings of broadcast empathy for the perpetrators of not-quite-murder.
In other words the BBC pretty much/fully supports any liberalisation of our justice laws in favour of perpetrators.
I hesitate to say the BBC were completely and absolutely supportive of the review into this law because – if you will recall – the highest profile case of a Joint Enterprise prosecution was the Stephen Lawrence trial in 2011.
BBC tv news inevitably had to refer to that case and – to attempt to swerve the clashing of agendas – used this wonderful form of words about the outcome of the Lawrence case:
“Some people may say, fair enough!”
On the matter of mass imm/islmfication/wide open borders, it’s clear why it’s happening (the globalist’s agenda using cultural marxism as its means).
It is also clear what the policy will ultimately result in (minority status for natives, a society akin to Brazil, South Africa etc), but there is one question that remains.
Viz, what is the end game anticipated by the PTB? Do they expect the natives to go quietly into the night? Will the natives mount a resistance and be crushed by state force? Do they expect a non native coup rising to power through electoral means?
The end game is as ever in this world will be something we will not have allowed for.
The liberal left/BBc/cultural marxists have never thought things through. Burdened by a sense of guilt that has no reality and a hatred of themselves and the culture that raised them all they know is an urge to tear down.
They are weak and now they are sensing this. This makes them more not less dangerous but the inherent weakness is inescapable.
We need to ignore them and hold our nerve and wait.
They are using PC even more aggressively but that is in defiance of reality. Just look at the way Australia is behaving.
Give the whole rotten edifice of liberalism a couple more years. It is going to collapse with real speed.
Mind you it is best to stay out of their way and their anger till then.
The suffocating stench of political correctness gets more
page space on the BBC
“A singlet bearing a slogan seen by many as racist has been removed from supermarket shelves in Australia after it was “inadvertently” stocked.
The vest with Australia’s flag and the slogan “If you don’t love it, leave” … was on sale at two Woolworths stores in Queensland and New South Wales.”
Australian supermarket removes ‘racist’ top
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-29597066
… could this be after concerns of that erm … backlash?
that (as usual) never materialised?
I never understand why Islamic adherents, with such delicate hair trigger sensitivities, are never ever concerned about the … “frontlash”
… unless, of course 😀 …. “it has nothing to do with Islam”
http://www.thecommentator.com/article/5433/australia_tragicomic_west_stresses_danger_of_islamophobia
http://youtu.be/TrLCSLqP24E
At some point in time a fews years prior to the 2012 London Olympics the BBC decided (either unilaterally or perhaps at the behest of its friends in New Labour) that sport was infact all about politics.
Perhaps occasionally sport is about politics – but BBC coverage is supposed to be balanced or neutral or something of the sort.
I think the world would be a better place if those ‘campaigners’ about which we hear so much tried to take politics out of sport rather than as most tend to want which is to put politics into sport – so long as it is their own brand of politics.
Recently on a BBC tv show unrelated to politics, history or sport I heard it said as a comonplace fact that Jessie Owens had stood up to Hilter who had tried to use the 1936 Berlin Olympics as a political statement.
I have a problem with celebrating this received interpretation of Owens’s success. It seems to say that yes indeed sport is political and good so long as our side wins.
Had German athletes won every gold medal event would this have made them supermen? Did the fact that Jessie Owens won several golds make him the superman instead? Do you see the problem? If you are the good guy and you play along with the game you better win or you legimise the bad guy. Far better had civilised nations boycotted Berlin 1936 as South African sport was boycotted in the 1980s.
To BBC Sports Personality Of The Year. Former BBC man, sports writer and journalist, Martin Kelner points out the fact that the king has no clothes.
‘Gabby Logan, Clare Balding and other assiduous tweeters are paid by the BBC to take SPOTY seriously. We don’t have to’ (2011)
‘BBC SPOTY was assiduosly and determindly PC… and boring’ (2014)
I agree totally. The Jessie Owens story has been misused for political purposes … exactly what the Nazi regime was accused of doing with sport! The German crowds in the stadium cheered Owens and a German rival (in the Long Jump) sportingly gave him advice on how to avoid possible disqualification by not overstepping the takeoff board, after which Owens took the Gold. It seems that Hitler didn’t avoid him but left the stadium on other business, though film has on occasion been juxtaposed to suggest otherwise.
From a similar era (1938) is the saga of Joe Louis v Max Schmeling. The nauseatingly smug BBC Lefty Laurie Taylor once evoked this on his ‘Thinking Allowed’ show on Radio 4 (my alternative title = ‘Original Thinking NOT Allowed’). The easy narrative was that the Nazis wanted to ‘put the cocky Black man in his place’, which was true, and it backfired badly when Schmeling was KO-ed in the first round.
However, just two years previously, he had beaten Louis in twelve rounds. Did that fight prove the theory of Aryan superiority? By Taylor’s pseudo-logic, the answer would have had to be yes, at least until the 1938 rematch; so the moral of the story would seem to be that … there is no moral in the story.
I agree about SPOTY: it’s embarrassing, too long, too big, with simpering PC presenters such as Clare Balding and Sue Barker, and I haven’t watched much of it for years. I have no time for the nasty homophobia of the edition back in the 1976, when footballer Francis Lee called gay skater John Curry “a fairy” but, as often happens, the pendulum has now gone too far the other way.